Southsea

Southsea is a level editor created specifically for the avEngine. It provides a range of functionality specifically to create maps for the engine. Its main features include:

• A feature full terrain editor, including height and blend painting.

• A convenient workflow to edit the engine’s chunk based worlds.

• Easy integration with pre-existing avEngine projects (Able to edit a project from any avSetup.cfg file).

• Complete support for editing objects within the scene tree.

• General creature-comfort utilities such as undo and redo, common key-press functionality, drag and drop, so on.

• Customisable user interface with dockable windows.

• The ability to view a map in the engine with a button press.

Southsea is the encouraged method for editing project maps in the avEngine. Its interface has been designed to follow a number of conventions set by pre-existing level editor tools.

It takes care of much of the setup of maps and map files. It generates the appropriate files and textures based on user edits.