Navigating the 3D Viewer

The 3D viewer is an interactive viewport for previewing model assets — meshes, skeletons, locators, and animations. You can also edit transforms directly in it.

The layout

• Left: the app's tool navigation — 3D Viewer, Model Tools, Material Tools, Carbin Editor, XML Tools, and so on.
• File tree: the contents of the opened ZIP or folder, with checkboxes controlling what is displayed. A car ZIP typically contains Animations, Lights.bin, Locators.xml, an .avpins file, physicsdefinition.bin, and scene.
• Toolbar: Open, Save, Save As, Undo/Redo, Export OBJ, Close Selected, Close All, Selection Mode, Filter, View, Camera, and Options.
• Model Properties (bottom left): the selected model, target scope, and its Position, Scale, and Rotation (Degrees) values, plus Reset Transformations and a Bone section.
• Status bar: mesh, vertex, and triangle counts for what is loaded.

Editing transforms

Select a part, then type values directly into the Position, Scale, or Rotation fields. Target Scope controls whether the change applies to all meshes or a narrower selection. Reset Transformations reverts your changes to the part.

This panel is where you set a part's scale to 0 to hide it in-game — see Removing a part from a car.

Blender-style hotkeys

As of v0.9.2.0 the viewport uses familiar Blender bindings for free transform control:

• G — move (grab)
• S — scale
• R — rotate
• X, Y, Z — lock the current operation to an axis

There are also dedicated buttons and a gizmo for position, scale, and rotation if you prefer clicking to hotkeys.

Loading files

You can drag and drop a folder or ZIP onto the viewer, or use the open-folder button. Saving writes back to the opened ZIP or folder, rebuilding it fully.

Hiding vs. removing meshes

These are different operations and the distinction matters:

• Unticking a mesh hides it in the viewport only. It does *not* remove it from the game.
• Setting scale to 0 is what actually makes a part disappear in-game.
• v0.9.2.2 added a mesh enabled/disabled toggle and a quick hide button.

See Removing a part from a car for choosing the right method.

UV editing

The viewer includes a UV map display window with live editing, supporting all UV channels. Those channels are preserved when exporting to FBX.

Other viewport features

• Manufacturer colours are parsed onto modelbins, with an RGB colour picker for carpaint materials.
• Wheel morph support was added in v0.9.2.2.
• An option toggles focusing to the selection in the file list.