Resource Manager – Arma Reforger

Revision as of 12:38, 9 October 2023

Welcome to the Enfusion Workbench - Resource Manager!

The Resource Manager is an integral part of the main "hub" of the Enfusion Workbench. The Resource Manager is its asset manager, which allows for importing, managing and editing assets and their related files. It’s also the place from which navigation to other tools or areas of Workbench can be done, as well as accessing project and Workbench options, build data, package, build project and more.

Interface

By default, Resource Manager welcomes you with 4 main sections:

Resource Browser - as its name suggests, this window can be used to browse through available resources from base game and loaded mods
Main Window - if there are not tabs opened, then Welcome Tab will be visible. When resource is opened, it will appear in this main window area in a tab.
Log Console - window containing live updated logs from current session.
Window Menu - in top toolbar it is possible to access all available Editors , options, plugins and other things. More details can be found below

Beside that, in bottom right corner (5) you can info about version of the Workbench and to which backend (Production - Stable, Submission = Experimental version of the game) it is connected.

Window Menu

Title	Hierarchy
Workbench	Save Save All Options Publish Project Login/Logout Exit
Editors	World Editor Particle Editor Animation Editor Script Editor Audio Editor Behavior Editor Procedural Animation Editor String Editor
View	Normal view Text view Hex view 8 bytes 16 bytes 32 bytes
Edit	Undo Redo Reimport resource Locate file in resource browser
Window	Next Tab Prev Tab Cycle Tabs Close Current Tab Undo Close Tab Log Console Resource Browser Resource Browser 2
Utilities	Generate GUID File system sources Qt introspection tool
Plugins	Settings Reload WB Scripts Clear All Settings List world resources Texture Import Model Import Material Import Terrain Import Edit Selected Prefab(s) SVN Log Create/Update Selected Editable Prefabs Image Set Generator Batch resource processor Batch texture processor Re-Save Meta Tool Re-Save Tool In-game Editor Register Placeable Entities... Update All Editable Prefabs Create/Update Selected Editable Prefabs SVN SVN Log User Settings Edit Engine Settings Edit Game Settings
Help	About

Workbench

Save

Save the file from the currently selected tab.

Save All

Save the file from all opened tabs.

Options

See Resource Manager: Options

Login/Logout

Log in or out of the Bohemia account. Logging in allows for publishing online to the Bohemia Workshop.

Publish Project

Publish the mod in its current state.

Exit

Close the Workbench and all other open editors, if any.

Editors

This menu allows for navigating through all available editors.

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Greyed out editors are either already opened or unopenable as per the script base status (non-compilable code).

View

This menu allows the switching of the current tab's view mode between:

Normal view
Text view
Hex view (8, 16 or 32B)

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Text and Hex views are read-only.

Edit

Undo

Undo the last applied action to the world. Shortcut: Ctrl + Z.

Redo

Reapply the last undone action. Shortcut: Ctrl + Y.

Reimport resource

Reload the current file from storage. Wanted changes must have been saved first! Shortcut: F5.

Locate file in resource browser

Show the selected file in the Resource Browser tree. Shortcut: Ctrl + B.

Edit prefab

Open the World Editor to edit the currently-opened prefab. Shortcut: Ctrl + E.

Window

The first section groups Tab operations.

The second section groups Window operations.

Next Tab

Shortcut: Ctrl + ↡ PgDown.

Previous Tab

Shortcut: Ctrl + ↟ PgUp.

Cycle Tabs

Shortcut: Ctrl + ↹ Tab.

Close Current Tab

Shortcut: Ctrl + W.

Undo Close Tab

Shortcut: Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + T.

Log Console

Hide/show the Log Console and its history. Shortcut: F1.

Resource Browser

Hide/show the "project tree" view. Shortcut: F3.

Resource Browser 2

Hide/show a secondary Resource Browser. This one has no keyboard shortcuts.

Utilities

Generate GUID

Generate a new Globally Unique IDentifier.

File system dump

Show which directories are used as source, in the form of

<Game> game data directory
core ./addons/core/
profile game user profile directory

Qt introspection tool

Show debug information about Qt, the Workbench Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Plugins

This menu lists Workbench plugins. Each plugin has its own usage and user manual.

Settings

Reload WB Scripts

Reload Workbench plugins. Shortcut: Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + R

Clear All Settings

Resets all parameters that have been changed, Workbench parameters included.

Texture Import

Model Import

Material import

Terrain Import

Edit Selected Prefab(s)

Create/Update Selected Editable Prefabs

Bookmark #

SVN Log

Batch resource processor

Batch texture processor

Re-Save Meta Tool

Re-save the .meta files for files having the provided extensions. Useful if a format has changed and files should be re-saved.

Re-Save Tool

Re-save the files having the provided extensions. Useful if a format has changed and files should be re-saved.

Extensions are to be provided without the dot (e.g layout and not .layout)

Image Set Generator

In-game Editor

User Settings

Edit Engine Settings

Edit Game Settings

Register Placeable Entities...

Update All Editable Prefabs

Create/Update Selected Editable Prefabs

Bookmarks

SVN

SVN Log

Validate Behavior Trees

Search Tool (XOBs)

Edit Selected Prefab(s)

Shortcut: Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + E

Generate Class from Layout

Localize Selected Files

Shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + L

Find Linked Resources

Validate Prefabs

Generate Controls Scheme

Resource Browser

Resource Browser is the main tool for navigating and managing game data, it can work with "local" data, packed data and both at the same time.

Default layout provides navigation through game data in two windows - one displays directories in tree layout and the other displays content (sub-directories and files) of the selected one.

There is a Search bar at the top left which has various filters and options available.

And lastly, over viewport, there are tabs with opened resources.

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This section also applies to "Resource Browser 2" that is a simple copycat of this window.

Contextual Menus

In both windows, using on files and folders opens a context menu, dependent on the clicked item's type:

Context	Options
Tree view	Show in Explorer Register Edit Properties Delete Rename Copy Resource Name(s) Copy Resource GUID(s) SVN Update Commit Add Remove Revert
File view	Open File in New Tab Show in Explorer Navigate to Folder Register Registers the resource to be used (creates .meta files) Register and Import Register and (re)import Reimport Converts file from source file (tiff, fbx, etc.) to Enfusion file (xob/txo, edds, etc.) Delete Rename Navigate to Original Navigate to Ancestor Navigate to Override Override in... Duplicate to... Inherit in... Transfer to... Copy Resource Name(s) Copies the Enfusion path to this resource (format `{GUID}path/to/file.ext`) to the clipboard Copy Resource GUID(s) Copies the resource GUID to the clipboard Copy File Path(s) Copies the absolute path (format `C:\path\to\file.ext`) to the clipboard Copy Link Copies an `Enfusion://` link pointing to this resource to the clipboard SVN Update Commit Add Remove Revert Find References expensive operation looks through all project files to find a reference to this element. not present for script files Refresh Thumbnail(s) Edit Prefab(s) Opens the prefab in World Editor in Prefab Edit Mode to see and edit it Save changes Revert changes

Usage

Search bar

The Search bar allows the typing of words/sequences, separated by a space, that should be found in the file name - including keywords.

e.g. looking for village 1i03 .xob will find and pinpoint House_Village_E_1I03.xob.

Filters

Show Runtime files only
Show unregistered sources only

Filter by Category
Filter files by type (See File Types)

Options

Expand All on Search

Horizontal Layout
Vertical Layout

Grid View
List View

On with filters
Always On
Always Off

Icons Scale

Sort by Name
Sort by Size
Sort by Type
Sort by Date

Ascending sorting order
Descending sorting order

Viewport

Tabs

Right-click	Close Tab Close All Tabs Close All But This Reopen Closed Tabs Navigate to File Show in Explorer

A double-click on the tab will Locate the file in Resource Browser, when a middle mouse button click will close it.

Viewport Types

See Arma Reforger/Modding/Official Tools/Resource Manager Viewports.

Log Console

Log console displays various messages, they can be either informative, warnings or errors, and can be sorted by type or category.

Details / Import Settings

Details and Import Settings tabs are closely related, even dependent on the Viewport type. See Resource Manager: Viewport for more respective details.

Import Settings

This tab is about import options. Each type of resource has different options available that are detailed in Resource Manager: Viewport.

If any changes are done in this category, it’s required to click on the "Reimport resource" button at the top to take effect.

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Each platform has its own settings, but all of them inherit from PC.

Edit also selected files

It is possible to edit multiple files at once. To do that, you need to check the "Edit also selected files" checkbox and select files in Resource Browser.

Parameters

Different per resource type, each described in Arma Reforger/Modding/Official Tools/Resource Manager Viewports.

General Shortcuts

Shortcut	Function
`Ctrl` + `S`	Saves resource in active tab
`Ctrl` + `⇧ Shift` + `S`	Save all
`F5`	Reimports active resource
`Ctrl` + `B`	Locates active resource in Resource Browser
`F1`	Opens/closes log console
`F3`	Opens/closes Resource Browser window
`Ctrl` + `Page Up`	Next tab
`Ctrl` + `Page Down`	Previous tab
`Ctrl` + `↹ Tab`	Cycles between opened tab
`Ctrl` + `W`	Closes active tab