Placing and editing objects

Object Placement mode edits LHX object-creation statements through a 3D workflow while keeping the script synchronized.

Catalog and drag & drop

Switch to Object Placement. The Catalog window displays searchable model previews loaded from the game resources. Drag an item from the catalog onto valid terrain; invalid/out-of-bounds drops are highlighted and rejected.

Automatic defaults when creating objects

New statements receive their object type, position, age and a new ID when required. Depending on the command, the editor also attempts to infer relationships:

• player from the closest town;
• town from a nearby town (within the command's supported association);
• flock from a nearby flock when the point lies inside its radius;
• forest from a nearby forest;
• villager home from the closest compatible free abode.

Selecting and moving objects

The Pointer tool selects objects. Ctrl-click toggles an object's selection. Dragging moves the selected objects as a group; starting a drag while holding Ctrl duplicates the selected statements first.

The polygon Selection tool supports New/Add/Subtract/Intersect. Right-clicking objects opens commands to refine/extend the selection, select parents/siblings/children/descendants, reveal an object in the LHX Tree, copy, cut or delete.

Object Attributes

The Object Attributes window is generated from the selected command's argument schema. It supports coordinate fields, floats/integers, booleans, strings and enumerated argument choices. Position/rotation/scale/age constraints are adapted to the command. Duplicate IDs are flagged.

Specialized panels are available for town belief, belief caps and desire boosts; abodes show villagers/children counts and relevant object flags such as planned/dead/uninhabitable where supported.

LHX Tree

The tree provides a searchable hierarchy of rendered LHX objects and follows selection in the 3D view. Parent/child links correspond to the relationships rendered by the Links overlay.