Introduction

A new Environment Modes toolbar has been added to the Editor, this will save you time when debugging issues in your scenes.

To activate the Environment Modes toolbar in CRYENGINE Sandbox right click on an empty space in the menu tabs of the sandbox. This will activate a menu that will allow you to add additional toolbars to the UI .

Select EnvironmentModes from the drop down menu and you will see that the Environment Modes toolbar has been added to your UI in the Editor.

These have been introduced to save you time so you do not have to remember a number of Cvars and commands. Some of these are already available in the 4th tab of the rollup bar, however sometimes those extras clicks are too much, so they have been exposed directly onto the main interface via the toolbar.

Toolbar Breakdown

From left to right - all the buttons in the toolbar have been listed below along with the Cvar being modified.

All but one of the buttons are toggles i.e. on/off. The TOD cycle button runs through a series of settings for the time of day = 0, 1.5, 3, 4.5 etc...

No.	Icon	What it does	Cvar / command being used
1		toggle global fog on/off	e_Fog
2		toggle Clouds on/off	e_Clouds
3		toggle Rain on/off	r_Rain
4		toggle Sun on/off	e_Sun
5		toggle Skybox on/off	e_Skybox
6		Cycle through time of day (1.5hr increments)	e_TimeOfDay
7		toggle screen space reflections on/off	r_SSReflections
8		toggle Shadows on/off	e_Shadows
9		toggle Transparent objects on/off	r_TransparentPasses
10		toggle Screen Space Direction Occlusion on/off	r_ssdo
11		toggle Dynamic lights on/off	e_DynamicLights
12		toggle Brushes on/off	e_Brushes
13		toggle Designer Geometry on/off	solids (editor command not a Cvar)
14		toggle Entities on/off	e_Entities
15		toggle Prefabs on/off	prefabs (editor command not a Cvar)
16		toggle Vegetation on/off	e_Vegetation
17		toggle Decals on/off	e_Decals
18		toggle Terrain on/off	e_Terrain
19		toggle Particles on/off	e_Particles
20		toggle Flares on/off	r_Flares
21		toggle Light Beams on/off	r_Beams
22		toggle Fog Volumes fog on/off	e_FogVolumes
23		toggle Ocean Water on/off	e_WaterOcean
24		toggle Water Volumes on/off	e_WaterVolumes
25		toggle Wind on/off	e_Wind
26		toggle Object Bounding Boxes on/off	e_BBoxes