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🐦‍⬛ Jackdaw 🐦‍⬛

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A 3D editor built for and with Bevy. Very early in dev, expect bugs and changes! A BSN-friendly branch exists on the bsn-editor branch (the flow is to read/write to the BSN AST and then sync to the ECS for rendering the UI and viewport)

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Features

  • Brush-based geometry draw, edit, and CSG-combine convex brushes with vertex/edge/face/clip editing modes
  • Material system VERY wip - texture browser, material definitions with ORM auto-detection, per-face application
  • Terrain heightmap sculpting and texture painting, very WIP :)
  • Scene serialization save/load scenes in the .jsn format with full asset references. Ideally to be replaced with BSN once ready.
  • Transform tools translate, rotate, scale with grid snapping and axis constraints
  • Undo/redo full command history - some bugs atm with this
  • Extensible register custom components, add inspector panels, integrate with your game

Usage

Add jackdaw to your project:

cargo add jackdaw

Then add the EditorPlugin to your app:

use bevy::prelude::*;
use jackdaw::EditorPlugin;

fn main() -> AppExit {
    App::new()
        .add_plugins((DefaultPlugins, EditorPlugin))
        ...
        .run()
}

See the examples for more advanced usage.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigation

Key Action
RMB + Drag Look around
WASD Move
Q / E Move up / down
Shift Double speed
Scroll Dolly forward / back
F Focus selected

Editing

Key Action
Esc / R / T Translate / Rotate / Scale mode
B / C Draw brush (add / cut)
1-4 Brush edit: Vertex / Edge / Face / Clip
Ctrl+D Duplicate
Delete Delete selected
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z Undo / Redo
Ctrl+S Save scene

For the full shortcuts reference, see the book.

Documentation

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and PR guidelines.

License

Dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.

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A Bevy 0.18 scene editor with hierarchy, inspector, and 3D viewport

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