Overview

The ViewModes toolbar helps save time when debugging issues in your scenes.

To activate the ViewModes toolbar in CRYENGINE Sandbox, right-click on an empty space in the toolbar area. This will open a menu that will allow you to add additional toolbars to the UI .

Select ViewModes from the drop down menu and you will see that the ViewModes toolbar has been added to your Editor's UI.

This toolbar has been introduced to save you time by not having to remember a large number of CVars and commands.

Toolbar Breakdown

From left to right, all the buttons in the toolbar have been listed below along with a description of what they do. Additionally and for your reference the CVar being modified has also been included.

All but one of these buttons are toggles, on/off. Others, like the min_LOD will cycle between 6 options (0 -> 5) & back again to 0.

No.	Icon	What it does	Cvar / command being used
1		Default normal rendering mode	r_DebugGBuffer = 0
2		Normals PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 1
3		Smoothness PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 2
4		Reflectance PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 3
5		Albedo PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 4
6		Lighting Model PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 5
7		Translucency PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 6
8		Sun Self Shadowing PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 7
9		SubSurface Scattering PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 8
10		Specular Validation PBS debugview	r_DebugGBuffer = 9
11		Default Material	e_DefaultMaterial = 1
12		Default Material with Normalmaps	r_TexBindMode = 6
13		Overlay Collision Proxies	p_Draw_Helpers = 1
14		Shaded Wireframe	r_ShowLines = 2
15		Full Wireframe	r_wireframe = 1
16		Show Vertex Normals	r_shownormals = 1
17		Show Tangents	r_ShowTangents = 1
18		Texels Per Meter 256	r_TexelsPerMeter = 256
19		Texels Per Meter 512	r_TexelsPerMeter = 512
20		Texels Per Meter 1024	r_TexelsPerMeter = 1024
21		Colour coded LOD visualisation	e_DebugDraw = 3, -3, 0 (3=color + debugtext, -3=color only, 0=off)
22		Minimum LOD cycle	e_LodMin = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (cycle through the LOD states 0 - 5 (if available))

Further Reading

For more information about 1-10, see Debug GBuffer.

For more information about 18-20, see Texels Per meter.