Reference

1. Keyboard and mouse
2. Files
3. Command line
4. Building from source

Keyboard and mouse

Keys	Action
Ctrl+K	Search everything
Ctrl+T / Ctrl+W	New tab / close tab
Alt+Left / Alt+Right	Back / forward in the tab
Ctrl+S / Ctrl+Shift+S	Save the current entity / save all
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y	Undo / redo (entity, research tree)
Ctrl+click, middle click on a link	Open in a new tab
Shift+middle click on a link	Open in a new tab in the background
Middle click on a tab	Close it
Delete (research tree)	Remove the selected arrow (prerequisite)
In the search: ↑ ↓, Enter, Ctrl+Enter, Esc	Choose, open, open in a new tab, close
3D view: drag, wheel, middle drag or Shift+drag, double-click	Turn, zoom, move, frame the mesh

Files

What	Where
Your mod’s files	only those you change, in the game’s encoding with Windows line endings; text or binary as before
Editor settings (game folder, recent mods, global mesh scale, mesh view presets and stored views)	%AppData%\SinsEditor\settings.json
Converted game files	%LocalAppData%\SinsEditor\cache – safe to delete

The editor never writes into the game folder or base mods, and adds no files of its own to your mod.

Command line

SinsOfSlopEditor.exe [options] – all optional; without them the editor opens the last mod.

Option	Meaning
--game <folder>	The game folder
--mod <folder>	The mod to edit
--base <folder>	A base mod (repeat for several, lowest first)
--language <name>	The language of the string table
--target <page>	Open a page: category:frigates, entity:Name, entity:Name@line, research:PlayerName, mesh:Name, texture:Name, meshes, textures, brushes, brush:Name, problems, log
--search <text>	Open the search with this text
--screenshot <file.png>	Save a picture of the window and exit (used for this manual)

Building from source

The source is on GitHub. You need Windows and the .NET 9 SDK.

git clone https://github.com/TobiWahnKenobi/SinsOfSlopEditor.git
cd SinsOfSlopEditor
dotnet build SinsEditor.sln
dotnet test tests/SinsEditor.Tests
pwsh build/publish.ps1

Most tests read the real game: copy testpaths.local.json.example to testpaths.local.json and enter your game folder (and optionally a mod to test against); without it those tests are skipped. build/publish.ps1 makes the self-contained release zip in dist/, and build/screenshots.sh takes this manual’s pictures.

The code is organised in three projects:

• SinsEditor.Core – reading and writing the game’s files, the layer stack, the index of everything, validation, editing operations (no user interface)
• SinsEditor.Viewer – the 3D views: the game-shader renderer (Direct3D 11 via SharpDX) and the simple preview
• SinsEditor.App – the WPF application