• An example of a Managed Object Control Panel, for via.Transform:
  
• String values in the format vec:1.0 0.0 0.0 or res:[resource path] are special string representations of vectors, matrices, quaternions and resources. These values can be copy pasted to transfer the real value
• Certain fields have special capabilities, such as for resources (files). You can click the checkbox to add a new file by typing its path, and other resources will appear in the list as you see them in the control panels.

Advanced Managed Object Settings

• A tree node titled "[Object Explorer]" contains advanced settings for a managed object, and displays Object Explorer
• The Update button updates all fields of a Managed Object, and the checkbox next to it makes it so all Managed Objects of that type will have all their fields updated every frame. This is disabled by default and fields are cached, because this can get expensive with many control panels open
• Clear Lua Data makes the managed object Lua class instance be recreated, refreshing all properties anew
• Sort Alphabetically Sorts the fields and properties in alphabetical order
• Save/Load GameObject are described in the Collection section below
• Assign to Console Var: tmp makes a global variable "tmp" of the managed object that can be used in the console
• Find all [via.Components] creates a console command that displays a list of all existing components of the same type as this Managed Object
• The Mini Console provides a text input for the console embedded inside the [Object Explorer] menu.
• Show History forces the child window of the Mini Console to expand and displays recent commands inside

EMV Engine Settings

• Remember Settings makes EMV Engine save and load data from JSON. Many features rely on this
• Affect Children makes many settings and features apply to a GameObject and all its children together
• Cache Ordered Dictionaries makes it so dictionaries that are sorted alphanumberically are not sorted every frame, improving performance
• Remember Material Settings toggles on and off the automatic loading of materials saved with the Material Manager
  

via.GameObject / via.Transform / via.Component Tools

• Enabled Checkbox lets you enable and disable the managed object (making it disappear and stop working on disable). Be careful using this with important objects, such as the camera.
• The Destroy button will delete the managed object or GameObject. Be careful with this as well
• Enable Animation Viewer activates Enhanced Model Viewer if it is running, and adds the selected GameObject and its children to its list of animated actors
• The Set Parent and Unset / Reset buttons let you pick another GameObject to be this GameObject's parent
• Show Transform draws text in the game world indicating where a mesh is, visible through walls
• The Grab is available when the Gravity Gun is running, and lets you grab the object with the gravity gun
• The Add to Collection button is a means for adding new GameObjects to be pinned in the Collection menu
• The Look-At checkbox activates lookAt mode, where the transform of the object or one of its bones can be forced to point towards another object
• The Show Joints checkbox lets you see the bones of a GameObject from anywhere:
  
• Show Joint Names displays the names of each bone when Show Joints is checked.
• Print Bones Enum and Print ChainBones Enum are special buttons for printing lists of bones and their bone hashes, for use in modding chain and other files

Managed Object Control Panel Settings

• Max Fields / Properties Per Grouping specifies the maximum number of list entries that will be displayed together. Groupings will make the fields and properties of large Managed Objects appear as Elements 1-100, Elements 101-200 etc if the limit is 100
• Show Extra Fields displays Managed Object properties that may be hidden by default, due to being duplicates of fields or having strange behaviors (such as requiring an unknown extra parameter)
• Embed Into Object Exlplorer (Lua) makes it so Imgui Managed Object Control Panel is shown as an imgui tree node any place where a script (any script) uses object_explorer:handle_address() function, embedding itself into many other scripts
• Exception Handling makes it so all field getters and setters used by EMV are called only inside protected function calls, to avoid crashes
  
• The Freeze and X buttons will appear next to recently changed fields, allowing for them to be reset to original value with X or frozen to the set value
  
• The Deferred Method Calls list shows a record of old function calls that were placed in the queue, showing whether the call was successful and info about the arguments
• Deferred Calls are often re-used every frame by fields and properties whenever they are Frozen (constantly set to the same value every frame)
  
• The + menu under a field shows special data about that field, including text inputs, freezing, gizmos for Vectors and resetting values.
• Managed Object values can be assigned to global variable in the Global Alias text box
• A global variable can be input under Assign to Global Var to set a field with a different Managed Object, if it is the same type of Object
  

• Search the scene for GameObjects by component, optional components, name, and exclude by name. You can update search results and preserve deleted Collection objects to find them again when they respawn
• An interactive gizmo is available as a marker for where to spawn GameObjects and for controlling (and freezing) the position of the currently selected Collection object. Can be moved to the camera and have its rotation reset
• You can use the Save / Load GameObject buttons in Imgui Managed Object Control Panel's [Object Explorer] menu to save individual components or full GameObjects with their children to JSON
  
• Use the GameObject Spawner to import these same saved settings when creating a new GameObject by checking "Load By Name" and selecting a file
• When creating a GameObject from JSON, be careful not to leave via.motion.Motion enabled, as it will make the character unable to animate
• Check Load Only Resources to only set fields that are for resources (files) in the new GameObject, and "Load Children" to load multiple GameObjects comprising a character at once
• Each field to be set for each new component can be edited or erased
• NOTICE: Spawning will not work well for complicated GameObjects with many components; use via.Prefabs for those. However you can spawn simple objects such as Model-Viewer figures that can be animated

• Click "Save New Defaults" to save the current material settings to JSON. Any time a GameObject with the same name is found in the scene, those settings will be applied.
• Swap Mesh and Material (MDF) files and change textures using drop-down lists
• Save your changes to a MDF file by injection with EMV's RE Engine Resource Editor, or with MDF Manager by Silvris
• Use "Change Multi" to change properties of multiple connected GameObjects at a time. This checks all materials of all a GameObject's children, siblings and parent for materials with names matching the given keywords (separated by spaces), then changes the same material property on those GameObjects if it is found.
  
• Saved Materials automatically coloring enemies skin green:
• Some screenshots of simple BaseColor edits in RE8:
  

• Hold Shift and hover your mouse over some bones to freeze them, or hold alt to un-freeze them.
• Press 'Z' to undo the last pose actions
• Poses can be saved to JSON files, with 8 poses per file. LocalPositions will save independently alongside Positions or Rotations to the same file, named after the selected GameObject
• Save and load a facial animation as full poses by saving both their LocalPositions and LocalRotations, then loading both together with "Import All Properties" checked
  

• Each button activates a BehaviorTree node, which makes the character perform a full move or series of moves, complete with animations, sounds, EFX and more. Some trigger mini-cutscenes or special conditions
• Nodes can be assigned to Hotkey buttons by clicking the "?" next to their buttons and assigning a key. These hotkeys can be managed in the EMV Engine settings menu
• Nodes can trigger Actions, which are small Managed Objects that can have a significant impact
• Save your edited FSM settings to a file with the RSZ Template
  

• Chain CustomSettings control panels let you change ChainSettings in-engine and visualize chain physics nodes
• Save your changes to a file with the chain template for 010 Editor
  

• Below is a screenshot of the standard "GameObject" Lua class used by EMV Engine, with Editable Tables disabled:
  
• Here is the same table with Editable Tables enabled:
  
• Input whole Lua expressions to the text box and make them be evaluated by ending with a semicolon
• Click the "Add" button to add a new Key + Value pair to a table
• Remove table entries or cancel a new addition by setting values as "nil" or "" (nothing)
• Arrays (ordered tables) are auto-detected and have special behaviors. Adding a new value and setting its key to the middle of the list will insert the new entry to that position and push all the others forward. Making an item in the middle of an array nil will trigger table.remove
• Set the new [Key] on the new table entry to an existing key to replace the entry (or erase it if set to nil). This is also the way to remove Tree Node elements (such as other tables and Managed Objects)

Enhanced Model Viewer Settings

• Persistent Settings makes the script load data from JSON files. Reset Settings restores default settings from the script
• Restart EMV clears the current instance of EMV and allows it to restart naturally
• Sync Animations makes the game try to synchronise body, head and item animations that are part of the same GameObject, searching for matched motbanks by shared frame count
• Transparent Background makes the background of the Enhanced Model Viewer window become clear
• Cutscene Viewer Makes the cutscene viewer automatically appear in RE2R, RE3R and DMC5
• Detach Animation/Cutscene Seek Bar makes the animation controls and seek bar for animated non-cutscene or animated cutscene objects (respectively) become their own floating windows
• Remove Mismatched Motlists is a feature for when a matched motbank contains extra motlists that are of the wrong body type (facial animations for a body or vice versa), and removes mismatched ones
• Cache Figure Data makes Enhanced Model Viewer use saved JSON data for its matched banks and motbanks, loading them faster
• Enable Hotkeys makes the viewer's hotkeys (pictured below) be usable
• Re-cache Animations makes EMV re-read all motbank files and cache their contents. This particularly important for RE Engine games before RE8, and is what builds the huge list of motbanks, motlists and motions that EMV uses
• Clear Motbank Resource Cache Clears the global list of motionbanks loaded by EMV, if it has become polluted with a broken file or has not been correctly filled with data
• Clear Figure Data Deletes all the current Cached Figure Data described above
  

Animation Controls

• Selected - EMV uses a "selection" system where one object will be the selected as the dominant object, with other objects syncing to it and changing with it. Check the checkbox next to an object one time to select it, or again while it is selected to enable or disable it
• Seek Bar - Select the current frame of the animation here. Ctrl+Click to set it to a specific frame. Press 2 or 4 with hotkeys on to seek back and forth, holding alt to do it slower (down to frame-by-frame when paused) or shift to do it faster
• Playback Speed - Set the playspeed of the animation. Can be put in reverse. Press T with hotkeys enabled to pause / unpause the selected animated object
• Play / Pause / Reverse are self-explanatory control-action buttons
• The 0.05x, 0.25xm 0.5x, 0.75x, 1.0x and +0.25x buttons are used to quickly control play speed
• The Seek All checkbox (toggleable with the 6 key) changes whether your control inputs affect only one object or all objects associated with that object tool
• The Prev / Next buttons cycle through mots (animations), motlists and motbanks in the order of their lists
• The Shuffle button (hotkey U) jumps to a random animation in the list of all animations matched to the character
• The Restart button resets the animation from the beginning
• The Reset Physics button restarts Chain and Gpucloth physics components on any animated GameObjects, fixing clipping or broken jigglebones
• The Set A-B Loop button (hotkey 5) lets you mark a start and an end point where the animation will loop back and forth, even between multiple mots, motlists and banks. The animation will not center itself until each time the loop completes, allowing for continuous movement around a scene
• The Repeat button checkbox makes it so no animation will go to the next one unless you click "Next" yourself
• The Center checkbox has three settings: Off, On and Aggressive. When turned on, it will try to align the object with the center of the figure by an offset, then it will re-center the object to that position after each animation completes.
• Aggressively Forced Centering is when the *Center checkbox has a * next to it, and forces the object to be always exactly on the center position
• The Mirror checkbox is an option for flipping an animation from left to right
• The Sync checkbox allows you to decide which objects you want to be subjkect to the Sync Animations setting described above
• The Grab button (toggleable with G) is available when the Gravity Gun is running, and lets you pick up the GameObject with the gravity gun
  

Bank List Controls

• Features an embedded Controls tree node containing a version of the controls described above for each animatable object, where you can control it specifically
• The Select MotionBank, MotionList or Mot combo boxes sample from motionbanks that the game uses to categorize lists (motlists) of animations (mots) for different characters, enemies and items, and allow you to pick which ones to load
• Press the + button next to the "Bank" combobox to add a motbank to your object's list of matched banks. This will make it work with Shuffle and Next/Prev, instead of being skipped
• Press the Refresh button to re-create the GameObject Lua class that is this object, reconstructing it and its banks lists if they are empty

Lights menu

• The Unlock All Lights checkbox makes the figure scene's lights become attached to the figure instead of static in the scene, or vice versa depending on the game
• The Rotate All checkbox is one of my favorite features and lets the light sets circle around the figure while the figure is held still
• The Show Positions checkbox shows you with world-text the location of each light in the figure
• The Follow Figure checkbox makes the lights of the figure follow the currently selected object, so they dont move into darkness
• While the Animation Viewer has been enabled outside of gameplay, Lights are collected from nearby instead of the figure. Press the Resample button to recollect these lights if you have moved since they were first collected
• Each light is either unsorted or comes in a LightSet container, which can be enabled or disabled to turn them all on/off at once
• Check the Unlock checkbox to unlock only this light (as in "Unlock All Lights")
• Press the Move to Cam button to move the light to the position of the camera. May require "Unlock" to be enabled on the light
• If an IBL is seen in the Lights menu, its background can be set there in any game:

Background

• Available for RE2R and RE3R, may come back to DMC5 soon
• Manupulates a via.render.IBL object, and can quickly load a Greenscreen background or any other background texture
  

Other Objects

• Other objects is a dumping ground for all other unsorted objects in the figure. Objects are only shown if they are not parented to any other Other-Objects

Camera and Figure Behavior

• A shortcut to the current MainCamera, and some figure controls for the current figure in RE2R and RE3R. EMV automatically adjusts zoom features to allow for extreme close-ups and far distances with unlocked rotation

Cutscene Viewer Settings

• In RE2R, RE3R and DMC5, a special Cutscene viewer will appear to manipulate cutscenes
• Use the Seek Bar and PlaySpeed to set the current frame of the cutscene and the current speed of the cutscene, respectively. Audio timescale cannot be changed, so it is disabled when the timescale is not 1.0
• Press the Play/Pause button to start and stop the cutscene, including audio
• Use the Restart button to restart the cutscene from the beginning, hopefully restarting all the audio as well. This button will fix issues where the cutscene viewer is not controlling the cutscene
• The Stop Audio button stops the cutscene audio from playing, for whenever it may become loud or broken
• The Alt Sound Seek checkbox changes the way in which audio is seeked in the cutscene viewer, because some games will go mute with one method and others with the other, sometimes for different scenes
• NOTICE: Certain cutscenes may have an issue where only the first 65535 milliseconds of playback will play audio, the rest will be muted because it just restarts beyond that point
• The Free Cam checkbox detaches the camera from the cutscene's control, teleporting it to 0,0,0 if you are not using the REFramework FreeCam mod. This option disables many annoying visual effects such as Depth of Fields
• The Zoom Control button allows you to set the current cutscene FOV / zoom-level by using the + and - keys on the num pad
• Detach detaches the cutscene seek bar from the Enhanced Model Viewer window, into its own window
• The End Scene button ends / skips the current cutscene

• The gravity Gun being used to carry the player (Hotkeys displayed):
  
• Forced Functions are specific fields and properties that are set on components of a GameObject while the gravity gun holds it, or right when it picks it up / drops it:
  
• The Ray Layers Table and Wanted mask bits let you configure which types of objects the gravity gun can and can't see:
  
• Persistent Settings is the same shared setting used by all my scripts to load data from JSON files
• GrabObject Action Monitor makes the action monitor appear in a floating window for the current grabbed object, if it has BehaviorTrees
• Show Transform toggles whether the position, rotation and scale of the grabbed object is displayed as text below it
• Reset All Objects puts all objects back into their original positions (last remembered by the script)
• Save / Load Positions saves and loads positions, rotations and scales of all current objects handled by the script with a specific component
  

AutoComplete

• AutoComplete is a useful tool capable of guessing what you might want to type and completing your input. Press Tab or the Blank button shown below to AutoComplete
  
• AutoComplete can give you the names of available functions, subtables, and values in the global scope as well as in your own tables and userdatas, with hidden metatable variables shown
• AutoComplete will work while typing paramaters for multiple nested function calls, as long as its at the end
• Managed Objects will autocomplete to show their RE Engine methods, using a table for their arguments like this:
  

Console Settings

• Spawn Console Makes the console window appear when it has been closed
• Use Child Window makes there be an text input box at the top and bottom of a large child window framed in the Console window (for quick access to input without lots of scrolling)
• Transparent Background makes the Console window become transparent, except for its contents
• Always Update Lists makes it so lists displayed in imgui are updated constantly, instead of having to click the Update button. This may cause flickering and slower performance
• Editable Tables are described above
  

History

• The History shows you a list of your recent commands, each as an imgui tree node
• Press the Run Again (can be set to a bindable Hotkey for each command) button to repeat the command one time, or check the Keep Running checkbox to keep it running indefinitely. "Keep Running" can display imgui functions as commands in the Console window
• When using the shortcut commands described above, you can sort lists of components by distance to the camera with the Sort By Distance button. Press the button again to refresh the sort
• Check the Show Closest button to display the closest objects in the list of results to the camera as yellow world text in the scene, giving you an idea of where things are
• Use the Max Distance slider to search only for the closest objects within a certain radius of the camera
  

Enemy Spawner Controls / Settings

• Select and Enemy to spawn from the drop down list in the supported games. All enemies and bosses should be spawnable as many times as you like
• Spawn Random Zombie will spawn a random zombie in RE2R or RE3R. Spawn Random Enemy will spawn any enemy, and could spawn a boss
• The Loiter checkbox makes it so zombies and other enemies will wanter around periodically instead of just standing there

Prefab Spawner

• You can use the Prefabs component of the Enemy Spawner to spawn PFB files you get from anywhere in any of the games (not just the three). PFB files will be cached as they are seen.
• The Add PFB File text input allows you to specially add a PFB file to the spawner's list. You can try searching through the PFB files listed in the file list for each game to find the filepaths of PFB files to spawn
• The Clear Spawns button will wipe away all spawned enemies like they never existed. NOTE: This button also clears Spawned GameObjects from the Collection
• The Existing Spawns imgui tree node contains a list of all current spawned enemies, where they can be configured with Managed Object Control Panel and made to loiter individually

File Loader

• Copy and paste the filepath of a MDF2, SCN, PFB, or USER file into the text box to read the file
• Files can be loaded from the "reframework\data" folder, or from your game's natives folder using the syntax "$natives\myFile.pfb.17"
• Opened files will be displayed in the "Opened Files" tree
• Click the "X" button to close a file

RSZ Resources (PFB, SCN, USER)

• RSZ resources require special JSON dumps to be read correctly. These dumps can be found at the RSZ Template repository, and must be placed in the `reframework\data\
• Features include changing all RSZ fields, swapping ObjectIDs (references), GameObject parents, inserting Instances, inserting Components, adding / removing all non-RSZ structs, and more
• Save SCN files as PFB files and PFB files as SCN files
• More guides soon, download this video for a demonstration:

MDF Files

• Each component of the MDF File is displayed with features to add and remove structs
• Edit colors and other parameters in the ParamHeaders themselves, or change texture strings. Any aspect of the file can be edited.
• Click "Save File" from the Materials menu to inject and existing MDF file with your current mesh material settings