Section 1. The World Context Menu
The first set of tools are accessed by right-clicking on your spline Blueprint, either in the level itself or from the Outliner.
You will see a submenu for rdSplineTools (2nd one if the spline is already split):
1. Split Spline into X parts
The first option is used to quickly split the spline into X amount of parts (between 2 and 16). After splitting the spline, the only difference you’ll notice is some of the spline is now colored slightly differently, that’s just the child splines not being active at the same time.
2. Copy Spline to Clipboard
This options converts the Spline point/tangent data into text and copies it to the clipboard.
It can be very handy to store text based versions of your splines in case the splines ever loose their data.
The data is stored for the spline only, no blueprint data you calculate in your spline blueprints is copied.
An example of what the data copied to the clipboard looks like is:
rdSplineData|1|3|0:959.006678:1013.151169:-0:483.649874:-236.770737:0:483.649874:-236.770737:0:3:-0:-0.225666:-0:1:1:1|1:1479.494962:620.04531:-0:751.71125:-809.939289:0:751.71125:-809.939289:0:1:-0:-0.399832:-0:1:1:1|2:2462.429177:-606.727409:0:982.934215:-1226.772719:0:982.934215:-1226.772719:0:3:-0:-0.432849:-0:1:1:1|
3. Create Spline from Clipboard
This tool re-creates the spline from the text data contained in the clipboard.
4. Subdivide Splines
This tool allows you to quickly Subdivide your spline points – you can divide each spline segment into 2-10 parts.
The locations and tangents are calculated to be as close to the single segments as possible.
5. UnSubdivide (Simplify) Splines
This does the opposite of Subdivide – it removes points along the spline.
6. About
This option displays the About window, which has the current rdSplineTools version number.
