Ingame Tools

Ingame tools can be enabled in the ModManagementUI or by passing the -ingametools commandline flag, and provide some developer tools that can be used at runtime. Mod developers can easily make their own ingame tool panels, too.

Gothic 1 Remake ships with two builtin panels:

• Outliner: Shows all actors currently in the level (built in C++)
• Selected: Actor Properties for the Actor selected in the Outliner

You can easily make your own custom panels by inheriting from UInGameTool:

class UIngameTool_MyCustomToolPanel : UIngameTool
{
  default Category = "MyCustomTools";
  default MenuPath = "MyCustomTools.SomePath";
  default Title = "My Custom Tool Panel";

  UFUNCTION(BlueprintOverride)
  void Initialize()
  {
        // ...
  }

  UFUNCTION(BlueprintOverride)
  void DrawImGuiWindow()
  {
        ImGui::Text(f"Hello world! {World.TimeSeconds}");
    }
}

Once loaded into the game, you will find it in the top-menu bar.

To access other tools - ie. the Outliner to get the currently selected Actor - you can use:

IngameTool::Get(UIngameTool_Outliner).SelectedActor = ...;

3D Drawings and Gizmos

Additionally to the regular ImGui functions, you may also use the functions in

• ImGui::Draw3D and
• ImGui::Gizmo

from your ingame tool panels.