Using the 2D editor

About the 2D editor

In the first tutorial we reviewed the tools and panels in UnrealEditor,
one of the tools that is most common and powerful is the 2D Shape
editor, this can make many things, including pathways, brushes
for movers and more. In this tutorial you will learn how to use
the 2D editor.

Starting a shape

Go to UnrealEditor and click on a button on the top panel that
looks like this: BORDER="0"> This is the 2D editor, once clicked a window popping
up with a grid view and a box will appear, we will make a pathway
for a room, right click on the top left vertex of the box and
select 'Split Side' this adds another vertex on the selected vertex.
Keep splitting a side until you have 3 extra vertexes from the
top left vertex. Click on the vertexes to move them around. Now
position the vertexes to look like this:

Now inside the 2D editor select Process > Extrude the extrude
operation creates the shape in a certain way, there is also extrude
to bevel which makes a cylinder like shape extrude to point makes
a pyramid like shape, revolve makes a round looking shape and
sheet makes a flat 2 demensional sheet. After doing Process >
Extrude you should see a window pop up.

Rotating the shape

Change the depth to 1024 select ok and exit the 2D shape editor,
you can see that a new shape has been made, the problem is it's
sideways, to turn it we must change the tool we are using, on
the top left panel you should see a camera selected, near that
camera shows this button: BORDER="0"> This is the brush rotating tool, in the last tutorial
we read about moving the brush around, now we will rotate it,
select the brush we have just made with the 2D editor after clicking
the brush rotating tool, now hold RIGHT CTRL + LEFTMOUSE + RIGHTMOUSE
and move the brush around untill it looks flat, this might get
a little buggy but its still a pretty good tool. (it should look
longer on your screen)

Now subtract it and itll look like a pathway. This can be used
in many different ways and it can be very effective.