Find your way around Armorsmith Designer

Find the Costume and Workshop views, use Workbench, and locate precise editing controls.

These instructions are for Armorsmith Designer 2.1.1.0. Earlier versions, including 2.1.0.10, can show different panels and labels.

Use Costume to fit armor to the avatar and Workshop to work with a model and its flat patterns. Workbench holds the browsing, editing, and inspection controls beside those views.

Choose a view

Costume shows the fitted avatar; Workbench and Transforms provide browsing and editing controls.

Area	Use it for
Costume	Place and fit attached parts around the avatar. Inspect the fit from several angles.
Workshop	Edit a workspace’s model, draw outlines, and arrange patterns on paper.
Menu bar	Open, save, import, export, change preferences, and show panels. See the menu reference.

The model and pattern views serve different tasks. Moving a paper template does not reposition its fitted attachment on the avatar.

Use Workbench

Choose Window → Workbench if the dock is not visible.

Tab	What it shows
Browse	Workspaces and their content. Costume offers attachment browsing; Workshop offers drawing layers and patterns.
Edit	Controls for the active tool, such as avatar customization, FFD, Fit Check, Edit Shape, or Edit Foam.
Inspect	Properties of the selected object or workspace.

Activate a tool from its normal menu or viewport button to open its editing controls. Use Done to finish a tool when that button is shown. Tools with Apply and Cancel use those controls to accept or abandon the proposed operation. Changing the visible Workbench tab alone is not a substitute for finishing a tool.

Workbench moves as one dock. Browse, Edit, and Inspect are pages inside it, rather than separate docks to rearrange individually.

Enter precise transforms

The separate Transforms panel contains position, rotation, and scale. Use it for exact values and use the viewport gizmos for interactive adjustment. See Transform Panel.

Start a costume

1. Create and save a costume.
2. Choose Avatar → Edit Avatar to enter body measurements in Workbench Edit.
3. Import a model and select it under Browse → Workspaces.
4. Attach it to the avatar, then position and check the fit.
5. Open Workshop when you are ready to work on its patterns.

For camera controls, see viewport navigation. If the panel arrangement becomes difficult to use, choose Window → Reset Window Layout.