everything working, however hacky

removed middle mouse button interaction from material preview.... because why!

Engine/source/T3D/guiMaterialPreview.cpp

@@ -154,28 +154,6 @@ void GuiMaterialPreview::setLightTranslate(S32 modifier, F32 xstep, F32 ystep)
    GuiMaterialPreview::mFakeSun->setDirection(relativeLightDirection);
 }
 
-// This is for panning the viewport camera.
-void GuiMaterialPreview::setTranslate(S32 modifier, F32 xstep, F32 ystep)
-{
-	F32 transstep = (modifier & SI_SHIFT ? mTransStep : (mTransStep*mTranMult));
-
-	F32 nominalDistance = 20.0;
-	Point3F vec = mCameraPos;
-	vec -= mOrbitPos;
-	transstep *= vec.len() / nominalDistance;
-
-	if (modifier & SI_PRIMARY_CTRL)
-	{
-		mOrbitRelPos.x += ( xstep * transstep );
-		mOrbitRelPos.y += ( ystep * transstep );
-	}
-	else
-	{
-		mOrbitRelPos.x += ( xstep * transstep );
-		mOrbitRelPos.z += ( ystep * transstep );
-	}
-}
-
 // Left Click
 void GuiMaterialPreview::onMouseDown(const GuiEvent &event)
 {
@@ -249,37 +227,6 @@ bool GuiMaterialPreview::onMouseWheelDown(const GuiEvent &event)
 	return true;
 }
 
-// Mouse Wheel Click
-void GuiMaterialPreview::onMiddleMouseDown(const GuiEvent &event)
-{
-   if (!mActive || !mVisible || !mAwake)
-   {
-      return;
-   }
-   mMouseState = Panning;
-   mLastMousePoint = event.mousePoint;
-   mouseLock();
-}
-
-// Mouse Wheel Click Release
-void GuiMaterialPreview::onMiddleMouseUp(const GuiEvent &event)
-{
-   mouseUnlock();
-   mMouseState = None;
-}
-
-// Mouse Wheel Click Drag
-void GuiMaterialPreview::onMiddleMouseDragged(const GuiEvent &event)
-{
-   if (mMouseState != Panning)
-   {
-      return;
-   }
-   Point2I delta = event.mousePoint - mLastMousePoint;
-   mLastMousePoint = event.mousePoint;
-   setTranslate(event.modifier, delta.x, delta.y);
-}
-
 // This is used to set the model we want to view in the control object.
 void GuiMaterialPreview::setObjectModel(const char* modelName)
 {

Engine/source/T3D/guiMaterialPreview.h

@@ -115,13 +115,7 @@ class GuiMaterialPreview : public GuiTSCtrl
    void onRightMouseDragged(const GuiEvent &event) override;
    bool onMouseWheelUp(const GuiEvent &event) override;
    bool onMouseWheelDown(const GuiEvent &event) override;
-   void onMiddleMouseUp(const GuiEvent &event) override;
-   void onMiddleMouseDown(const GuiEvent &event) override;
-   void onMiddleMouseDragged(const GuiEvent &event) override;
-
-   // For Camera Panning.
-   void setTranslate(S32 modifier, F32 xstep, F32 ystep);
-
+
    // For Light Translation.
    void setLightTranslate(S32 modifier, F32 xstep, F32 ystep);
 

Templates/BaseGame/game/data/Prototyping/Materials/rogland_clear_night_4k_image.asset.taml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<ImageAsset
+    AssetName="rogland_clear_night_4k_image"
+    imageFile="@assetFile=rogland_clear_night_4k.hdr"
+    isHDRImage="true"/>

Templates/BaseGame/game/tools/materialEditor/scripts/materialEditor.ed.tscript

@@ -144,6 +144,15 @@ function MaterialEditorGui::open(%this)
 
    //Sift through the RootGroup and find all loaded material items.
    MaterialEditorGui.updateAllFields();
+
+   // this is a hacky piece of shit script, but it means that updates will continue.
+   matEd_previewObjectView.setModel("ToolsModule:cubepreview");
+   matEd_previewObjectView.setModel("ToolsModule:spherepreview");
+   matEd_previewObjectView.setModel("ToolsModule:pyramidpreview");
+   matEd_previewObjectView.setModel("ToolsModule:cylinderpreview");
+   matEd_previewObjectView.setModel("ToolsModule:toruspreview");
+   matEd_previewObjectView.setModel("ToolsModule:torusknotpreview");
+
    MaterialEditorGui.updatePreviewObject();
 
    // If no selected object; go to material mode. And edit the last selected material