Artificer Controls Window

The Artificer Controls Window allows you to quickly test your objects animation as it assembles and dismantles in Edit Mode so you don't have to keep playing your scene and moving to your object to see what any changes are like.

It works very like the Unity Particle System window. Depending on the current state of your object the top Button will either show Assemble or Dismantle, and if the animation is currently playing it will be greyed out and show the current progress of the animation.

If you click the button your object will either build or dismantle. At any time you can click the Pause button which will stop the animation, and to start it again just click the Resume button. While the animation is paused the three buttons to the right allow you to step through the animation by 1 frame, 4 frames or 32 frames.

Next are two buttons which allow you to instantly set the object to either fully built or fully dismantled.

You can alter the playback speed of the animations by changing the Play Speed option. This can be useful to check out the animation if complex, or if it is a long animation you can speed up the playback for quicker testing.

The show Element IDs option will add a label to each part for its ID, this can be useful later when you want to have an event on a certain element of the animation, or want to highlight it etc.

The final section at the bottom just shows some basic info on the current playing animation such as how many elements are currently being animated and the progress through the animation.