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Welcome to the 3D Canvas Wiki, here you will find all the information you need to use 3D Canvas at it's full potential. If you just installed 3D Canvas, here is how to get up and running!

Getting Started - A Quickstart Guide

Table of Contents

Here you can find the contents of this wiki, with short descriptions to help you navigate.

Assets and 3D Models

• Assets Where to find 3D Models, other assets and tools.
• Supported File Formats A list of which 2D and 3D file formats supported by 3D Canvas
• PBR Materials How to use PBR materials in 3D Canvas.

Scene setup

• Scene Configuration Learn what all the scene basic and advanced options do.
• Building a map with tiles Learn how to use the 3D Tile system
• Building a Multlevel Map Learn how to make a multilevel map with floors above you automatically disappearing.

Setting up 3D Entities

• Lights How to create lights and their configuration.
• Measured Templates How to create Measured Templates (AoEs) and their configuration.
• Tiles How to create tiles and how they work, both in 2d and in 3d.
• Tokens How to load your 3D minis and customize them.

Special Effects

• Token Animations Play animations to engage your players, and let your players express themselves.
• Weather And incredible particle based weather to your scenes for more immersion.
• Spell Effects Enhance your visual with particle based spell effects.

Other information

• Controls Learn all the useful keyboard shortcuts, did you know you could Ping?!
• Navigator Learn how to use the Navigator to easly explore and view your scene.
• Performance Learn how to optimize 3D Canvas even on lower end hardware.
• Issues Basic Troubleshooting steps to solve common issues.
• Vision & Sight Learn how Token vision works in 3D Canvas.
• Fog of War Learn how Fog of War is displayed in 3D Canvas and it's limitations.
• Video Tutorials More of a visual learner? A lot of the contents in this wiki are availeble as videos!