The wiki was developed by Nikita Ivanov, Olle Landin, and Martin Magni.

This wiki helps users learn more about Fancade and its game-making tools. Pages are written by Fancade users themselves. Maybe you want to help improve the wiki too?

Rules

Yes? You'd like to contribute? Great!! Here's some advice to help you get started editing.

Write about Fancade

The wiki is about Fancade, so try to stay on topic.

Create a appropiate page

Before creating a brand new wiki page, check if:

The page already exists, just with a slightly different name?
The info doesn't fit better as a note on an existing page?
The page is likely to be useful to other Fancade users?

Don't save unfinished edits

If you're not done yet, but you can't continue working right now, you can always quit the browser and get back to editing later (the wiki will remember the state of the page and will prompt you to recover it when you begin editing again).

Don't leave unanswered questions

If you're not sure about something, don't ask future editors to correct you in the page:

Constraints are very difficult to learn. (Maybe it's just me?)

Those who can answer your question will rarely visit the page, so you will end up throwing your question at readers'. Feel free to join our Discord server and ask your question there, in order to eventually provide the most accurate information to readers!

How-to

Want to help but have no idea how it's done? Read further to learn how to format text and create new pages.

Create a page

In the Wiki page, there is an ability to create new pages, simply by clicking "New". A pop-up with the title "Create New Page" should show up.

Create a page name with the appropriate title.

If you are writing it in a different section (e.g. Build) write <section>/<title> (e.g. Build/Set Variable) to create it within this section.

Now you can write a Wiki page! After you have written it all, click "Preview" to make sure everything looks correct.

Style a page

The Wiki supports the formatting syntax called "Markdown". You can easily emphasize text, make lists, add links, insert images and even make tables! For more information, read this.

Basics

Add link

To insert a link, you can:

Wrap page name in square brackets	`[[Number]]`	Number
Wrap page name in square brackets and put a suffix	`[[Number]]s`	Numbers
Wrap page name in square brackets and set displayed text	`[[One\|Number]]`	One
Wrap URL in square brackets	`[[http://fancade.com/]]`	http://fancade.com/
Wrap URL in square brackets and set displayed text	`[[Fancade\|http://fancade.com/]]`	Fancade

Make list

To insert a list element, put *, + or - at the beginning of a line. For example,

* Fancade
* is the fanmade
* arcade

will be

Fancade
is the fanmade
arcade

Add image

To add an image, drag-n-drop it into the edit form. (It will be uploaded to /uploads/<filename>)

To insert an existing image, you wrap the image path/URL in square brackets (like you do with regular links/URLs) to insert it directly in the text.

[[uploads/image.jpg]]

You can also upload an image by clicking "Upload" button in edit mode.

Delete a page

Deleting a page is possible, but restricted. Ping one of the Fanmods on the Discord server and suggest the deletion to them.

Revert a change

Go to the page's history (through link in the latest changes), check the commit, compare and revert.

Rename a page

Click Rename, and enter the new page name.

Sign out

There's no button to sign out (and seldom reason to). But if you clear the website data in your browser settings, you will be signed out. (It's a cookie?)

Keyboard shortcuts

On macOS, CMD and CTRL are treated as the same button.

Edit Mode

Input	Description	Other
Mouse + RMB OR Arrow keys OR WASD keys OR Keypad	Pan	Shift pans slower. Pan is default in xz-plane only but using ALT unlocks free pan like in the app
Mouse scroll wheel OR Keypad +/- OR ? and ´ keys (the two buttons at the right of 0)	Zoom	Shift and CTRL modifies speed
Mouse + MMB OR O key OR R key	Orbit	Shift orbits slower, CTRL snaps angle, ALT snaps angle to topdown view
LMB + CTRL	Toggle selection of mouse-hovered block
LMB + CTRL + Mouse move	Rectangle select adds to current selection
Backspace OR Delete	Remove block	Removes selected blocks first. If no blocks are selected, it removes the block that the mouse hovers over. Holding down Shift continuously removes all blocks that the mouse hovers over.
E key	Open / Close block
T key	Open / Close block for painting
I key	Open / Close inventory
F key	Focus on selected / Auto-fit camera	Auto-fits camera if no blocks are selected
G key	Camera pitch snap	Same as tapping on the camera button
Shift + F key	Fill block with current paint	Only available in paint block mode
CTRL + C key	Copy blocks
CTRL + V key	Paste blocks
CTRL + X key	Cut blocks
CTRL + S key	Save level
CTRL + Z key	Undo
CTRL + Shift + Z key	Redo
Escape key	Go back or Close

Play Mode

Input	Description	Other
Arrow keys	Generate directional swipes with minor offset along seconary direction	Shift and CTRL modifies the distance
WASD	Same as arrow keys but with opposite minor offset along secondary direction	Shift and CTRL modifies the distance
Keypad keys	Same as arrow keys but no secondary direction offsets	Shift and CTRL modifies the distance
TFGH	Fake accelerometer	Shift and CTRL modifies the angle amount, ALT adds white noise to the output
IJKL	Tap like it was an on-screen control in left-right-back-forward
Space key OR Keypad 5	Tap middle
Z key	Tap left middle
X key	Tap right middle
Escape key	Tap top left
Enter key	Tap top right
P key	Pause / Resume
Mouse + RMB	Pan with fake gesture
Mouse scroll wheel OR ? and ´ keys OR Keypad +/- (the two buttons at the right of 0)	Zoom with fake gesture	Shift and CTRL modifies speed
Mouse + MMB	Orbit with fake gesture
Mouse + MMB + CTRL	Pitch with fake gesture
CTRL + R key	Restart	Also works in the pause menu
CTRL + P key	Enters "dev pause mode" where the game is paused without the pause UI showing
SHIFT + P key	Steps a single frame forward in "dev pause mode"	Only works in edit mode

Menus

Input	Description	Other
Mouse scroll wheel OR Up and down arrow keys	Scroll up and down
Left and right arrow keys	Switches tab in main menu
Enter key	Tap the "focus" button
Escape key	Close or back
CTRL + Q	Eject / Exit game in pause menu

Top Menu

CTRL + S key	Save the selected game as a local file	Only works in "Projects"
Files dropped onto window	Create a new game in "Projects" for each file	Only works in the top menu

Misc

Input	Description	Other
F1	Contextual help	Open a wiki help page in a new tab. Selecting or hovering over (in the inventory) a stock prefab opens up the wiki page for that prefab.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Other
max_w	Maximum width of the canvas	Default value is 1024
max_h	Maximum height of the canvas	Default value is 768
ar_w	Aspect ratio width	In a 4/3 aspect ratio, this parameter should be 3. If any of the ar_w or ar_h is set, the aspect ratio is forced and limited by the max_w and max_h parameters
ar_h	Aspect ratio height	In a 4/3 aspect ratio, this parameter should be 4. If any of the ar_w or ar_h is set, the aspect ratio is forced and limited by the max_w and max_h parameters

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