Worldshaper/docs/kb/editor-capabilities.md

Editor Capabilities Map

This file is a shorthand capability matrix for request analysis. It is intentionally less detailed than the source code, but more concrete than the original scaffold summaries.

Tile Canvas Editing

• Owned primarily by Layers And Tile Editing
• Supports:
  • freehand tile painting
  • rectangle and circle outline strokes
  • line strokes with axis lock
  • erasing on the active layer
  • sparse height-layer paint and erase workflows
  • background-cell modes for explicit tile, transparent hole, and inherit
• Depends on:
  • Chunk Storage And Streaming
  • Content Catalog And Records
  • Persistence And Save Pipeline
  • Rendering And Viewport

Graphics Painter

• Owned primarily by Graphics Painter
• Supports:
  • rectangle, circle, triangle, and line tools
  • outline, fill, and outline + fill variants
  • shape erasers
  • animation timeline editing and preview
  • transform-oriented tool menus
• Depends on:
  • Content Catalog And Records
  • Floating Window Shell
  • Rendering And Viewport

Chunk Operations

• Shared by Chunk Storage And Streaming and World Overview
• Supports:
  • neighborhood chunk loading
  • chunk composition into the current world edit surface
  • chunk move, duplicate, rotate, flip, and delete
  • chunk background tile paint and restore
  • bookmark and POI workflows
• Depends on:
  • Persistence And Save Pipeline
  • Worlds
  • Windows

Request Review

• Owned primarily by Request Board
• Supports:
  • public submission intake
  • standardized tag assignment
  • structured review rationale
  • possible options for manual triage
  • admin-side edits and approval
  • queue worker invocation
• Depends on:
  • Launcher
  • Wiki
  • request-analysis worker and KB files

Relationship Rules For Triage

• If a request asks for how a brush or rectangle tool behaves on the map canvas, start with Layers And Tile Editing.
• If a request asks for how a rectangle or shape tool behaves inside the art editor, start with Graphics Painter.
• If a request asks about chunk movement, chunk duplication, or world-scale operations, start with World Overview, then confirm any storage implications in Chunk Storage And Streaming.
• If a request is mostly about presentation, launch flow, repo links, or public site layout, start with Launcher Home.