Navigate the Armorsmith Designer Costume Viewport Controls

Master every mouse control for rotating, panning, zooming, and selecting objects in the Armorsmith Designer 3D Viewport, plus practical workflow tips.

Use the Costume viewport to inspect your avatar, position costume parts, and check how they fit together. The toolbar above the viewport provides editing and animation tools.

Navigate the 3D view

Move the pointer inside the viewport before using the mouse controls.

Action	Input	Result
Rotate view	Right-click and drag	Orbit around the current pivot.
Pan view	Middle-click and drag	Move the view without changing its angle.
Zoom	Scroll wheel	Zoom toward or away from the pointer.
Select object	Left-click	Select a part and show its properties. Click empty space to deselect.
Frame selection	Z	Center the selected object in the view.
Frame all	Shift+Z	Fit the avatar and attached parts in the view.
Front view	F	Face the scene from the front.
Side view	L	Face the scene from the side.
Perspective / orthographic	P	Switch between depth perspective and a flat projection.

If you lose track of the model while panning or zooming, press Shift+Z to frame the whole scene.

Mirror selected attachments

In builds with the updated mirror command, select one or more attached parts, focus the Costume viewport, and press Shift+M to toggle their linked mirrors. Ctrl+Z undoes the whole mirror action, and Ctrl+Y redoes it. M activates Measure.

See Attachments for attachment properties, paired parts, and mirroring several selected parts.

Dense meshes and display detail

The automatic mesh LOD system uses a simplified display mesh targeting 100,000 triangles for dense models at every zoom level. Use Toggle Full Resolution in the Costume toolbar to inspect the working mesh. Printing and mesh export retain the working geometry.

Costume toolbar

The toolbar groups file actions, avatar modes, and tools for editing selected parts.

File and avatar controls

Button	What it does
Open	Open a costume file.
Save	Save the current costume.
Edit Avatar	Enter or leave avatar editing mode and show the avatar editing panel.
Edit Pose	Enter or leave pose editing mode.
Fit Checker	Show a heatmap of the distance between costume parts and the avatar to help you check fit.

Part editing tools

Button	What it does
Translate	Move selected objects in the work area.
Rotate	Turn selected objects. To adjust their size, see uniform and non-uniform scaling.
Scale	Resize selected objects uniformly or along individual axes.
Measure	Measure between points in the work area.
Free Form Deformation (FFD)	Deform a selected object with a lattice cage.

For exact position, rotation, or scale values, use the Transform Panel.

Animation controls

Control	What it does
Animation Selector	Choose an animation to preview on the avatar.
Play / Pause	Play or pause the selected animation.
Stop	Stop the animation.
Animation Scrubber	Pause the animation, then drag the scrubber to inspect a particular moment.

Rotate around a positioned part to check its fit from several angles. A part that looks clear from the front may intersect the avatar from the side.