The Editor¶

Doriax ships with a complete visual editor built for creators. Design scenes, write code, animate characters, manage resources, and test your game from one unified environment.

Doriax editor with a 3D pirate adventure scene

Core panels¶

Panel	Purpose
Scene view	Viewport for editing 2D and 3D scenes with gizmos and cameras
Structure	The tree of scenes and entities in the current scene
Properties	View and edit the components and properties of the selected entity
Resources	Manage textures, models, audio, and other project assets
Code editor	Integrated editor for Lua and C++ scripts
Animation	Timeline, keyframes, sprite animation, skeletal animation, and morph tracks
Output	Build logs, export messages, and diagnostics

3D scenes¶

Edit 3D scenes with cameras, lighting, models, and play mode. Position entities with gizmos, set up PBR materials, and preview shadows, fog, and the sky system directly in the viewport.

A directional light and the shadows it casts in a 3D scene

2D & tilemaps¶

Build 2D scenes with sprites and tilemaps. The sprite slicer and tileset slicer tools let you cut sprite sheets and tilesets into usable frames and tiles.

Animation¶

Animation timeline previewing a skeletal clip

Animate characters and objects with the timeline editor, and work with skeletons using the bone tools for skeletal animation.

Code editor¶

Lua API completion in the integrated code editor

Write Lua and C++ scripts in the integrated code editor without leaving the environment. Lua iterates quickly at runtime, while C++ is compiled at build time for native performance. Its event menu adds engine, input, component, and physics event handlers to a script for you.

Play mode¶

Press Play to run your game inside the editor. Test gameplay, UI overlays, and physics interactively, then return to editing.

A 2D game running in play mode inside the editor

Export pipeline¶

The editor includes a shader-aware export pipeline that prepares scenes, assets, scripts, engine files, and compiled shaders for your target platform — and can compile ready-to-run desktop and web builds directly. See the Export Window for the export modes and output options.

The Export Project window's three modes

Editor coverage

Terrain sculpting, painting, foliage and prop placement have a dedicated Terrain Editor window, particle entities can be created from the Structure panel, and built-in shaders can be forked and edited in place (see Custom Shaders). Audio tooling is not fully integrated into the editor yet — it is available at the engine/runtime level.