Controls
Moving
After loading into your level, you can move the camera with W,A,S,D and go up and down with E and Q. Hold SHIFT while moving the mouse to look around. Scrolling your mouse-wheel while holding SHIFT changes your camera speed.
Selecting
Select something with LMB, add or remove something from the current selection with RMB.
You can box-select by holding CTRL and RMB while moving your cursor and box-remove from the selection with ALT+RMB.
Copy and paste your current selection with CTRL+C and CTRL+V, or delete it with DELETE.
Transform
Move or rotate your current selection using the widgets shown on screen. Toggle between them using R and T. Holding ALT while moving a selection will create an exact copy of it.
Grab your current selection with MMB and move it around with your cursor, place it by pressing LMB or cancel the grab with RMB.
Enabling the “Surface Move” with CTRL-G, option will snap your selection to the grid while grabbing. The grid size can be changed by pressing PAGE-UP and PAGE-DOWN, or by manually typing it in the toolbar or editor options.
Misc
Save your level with CTRL+S or with the Save button in the editor panel. Toggle between Playtest and Editing mode using F10. To completely reset the level and reload the editor, simply press ESC and Restart Game.
Default Keybinds
These are the default keybinds for BLE. Some of these are not actually listed in the Input settings:
| Function | Keybind | |
|---|---|---|
| Copy Selection | CTRL+C | |
| Paste Selection | CTRL+V | |
| Save Level | CTRL+S | |
| Undo | CTRL+Z | |
| Redo | CTRL+Y | |
| Delete Selection | DELETE | |
| Deselect | CTRL+D | |
| Toggle Move Widget | T | |
| Toggle Rotation Widget | R | |
| Toggle Transform Orientation | CTRL+T | |
| Toggle Editor Units | F3 | |
| Toggle Elements | F4 | |
| Toggle Surface Move | CTRL+G | |
| Toggle Snappoints | U | |
| Toggle Playtesting | F10 | |
| Increase Camera Speed | ] | |
| Decrease Camera Speed | [ | |
| Increase Grid Size | PAGE UP | |
| Decrease Grid Size | PAGE DOWN | |
| Increase Grid Altitute | SHIFT+PAGE UP | |
| Decrease Grid Altitute | SHIFT+PAGE DOWN | |
| Toggle Light | F | |
| Toggle GUI | INSERT | |
| Toggle Ruler | CTRL+R | |
| Teleport to Selection | CTRL+F | |
| Link to Element Managed List | SPACE | |
| Open Element Managed List | M | |
| Open Element On Executed List | B | |
| Settle Units | END | |
| Hide Selected Units | V | |
| Reset Rotation | NUM ENTER | |
| Rotate Spawn Dummy Yaw | J | |
| Rotate Spawn Dummy Pitch | G | |
| Rotate Spawn Dummy Roll | H | |
| World Menu | CTRL+1 | |
| Selection Menu | CTRL+2 | |
| Spawn Menu | CTRL+3 | |
| Select Menu | CTRL+4 | |
| Tools Menu | CTRL+5 | |
| Options Menu | CTRL+6 | |
| Spawn Unit | 1 | |
| Spawn Element | 2 | |
| Select Unit | 3 | |
| Select Element | 4 | |
| Spawn Instance | (not defined) | |
| Spawn Prefab | (not defined) | |
| Select Instance | (not defined) | |
| Select Group | (not defined) |
All those keybinds, along with lots more can be viewed and customized in the “Input” section in the BeardLib Editor Menu Options.
Unlisted Keybinds
| Function | Keybind | Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Move Camera | W, A, S, D | |
| Up, Down | Q, E | |
| SHIFT (Hold) | Look around | |
| ALT (Hold while moving selection) | Create duplicate | |
| CTRL (Hold while moving selection) | Snap Grid to 1 | |
| CTRL+RMB (Drag) | Box Select | |
| ALT+RMB (Drag) | Box Deselect | |
| MMB | Grab Selection | |
| CTRL+LMB (Hold with Element selected) | Add to On Executed list | |
| CTRL+RMB | Add to current Selection | |
ALT+Hide Selected Units |
Unhides all hidden units | |
SHIFT+Hide Selected Units |
Hides all not selected units |