Layout
The nine sections, with the key that opens each one:
A section keeps its selection, filters and scroll position while you visit another one, until
you close Blueprints.
Keyboard
The status bar always lists the keys that work on the current screen. The common ones:
Versions adds three:
B sets the selected Version as the compare base, C compares, and
P shows the changes since the previous Version on the same map.
Character shortcuts follow the character your keyboard layout types, so / works on an AZERTY
keyboard too.
With the mouse, a click selects one row. In Objects, Ctrl + click (Cmd + click on
macOS) adds or removes a row, and Shift + click selects a range.
Search, filters and inspectors
Lists that can grow long have a search field and filters above them, and a Clear button when any filter is set. In Versions and Objects the server does the searching and sorting, so a filter covers the whole library, not only the rows already loaded.
Objects is a capture, not a live view. It lists what the server read from the world at a
moment, says when, and reads again when you press Refresh. It loads up to 2,000 rows.
Confirmations
Anything that changes the world, or deletes a document, goes through a confirmation. It states the consequence in one sentence, with the count, before you press the button. Capturing a Version is a read and has no confirmation. What the interface reports afterwards is the server’s answer, never a guess:- nothing is shown as done until the server says it is done;
- a second click while a request is pending sends nothing more;
- a write the server did not answer in time is reported as unknown, not as failed, because it may have run. It is never resent on its own: the interface reads the server’s state again and tells you what it found.
Esc closes a dialog only when that is safe.
Placing things in the world
Move group, Move anchor and placing a migration unit happen in the world, not on a screen. The interface steps aside, you place, and it comes back exactly as you left it.
Cancelling a placement changes nothing, and
Esc cancels the placement rather than opening
the game menu.
Display preferences
Display, in the title bar, sets two things for your own client:0.80 to 1.60, in steps of 0.05
The size of everything in the interface. The default in game is 1.10. On a screen too
small for the scale you chose, the interface applies the largest scale that still fits and
keeps your choice for a larger screen.
Compact, Default or Relaxed
Row height in lists: 20, 24 or 30 units. The default is Relaxed.
vetra_blueprints_scale and vetra_blueprints_density, which you can also
set from the console.
Limitations
- It needs Chromium. Garry’s Mod embeds it on Windows (every branch), macOS, and Linux on the x86-64 branch. Linux’s default branch embeds the older Awesomium browser, which cannot draw the interface. See Compatibility.
- It cannot move files. Exported packages stay in the server’s export folder, and a package to import must be copied into the server’s import folder, over FTP or your host’s file manager. See Export and import.
- It is not live. Screens show what the server answered when they asked. Most have a Refresh or Read again action, and screens read again after their own writes.
- One at a time. Opening Blueprints again while it is open brings the open one forward; a section name moves it to that section.