Once we have entered the new land that we have created, we will see that there are quite a few options, but we will use just a few of them to make the guide simpler.

Catalysts are divided into four different tiers: Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary.

Each tier defines the number of sockets and the scarcity of your ASSETS.

​These are the different behaviours available right now:

We are going to create a mission in which you have to talk to two NPC's who will guide you to an elevator, but until you talk to all of them it will not activate.

We will start the quest seleccting the assets needed.

We can use the predefinied avatars, provided by the platform.

As simple as that.
​Create your own adventure with monsters, heroes, magic, supernatural beings and more.

There are many ways to create missions and totally different from this one, it’s time to let your imagination run wild.

VoxEdit is a software to create, rig and animate your own custom voxel models. Right at the moment I'm writing this, the software is on a beta release from 31 of January 2020.

The software was created by The SandBox, a platform that allows you to sell voxels and gaming experiences on the Blockchain.

Althought there is still ways in which this software can be improved, is otherwise a great way to start creating your first models on voxels, since its interface is really simple and friendly for new users, which some features can be helpfull to new users.
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In this article, I want to talk about the difference interface that exist and what I found is the best way to work into create full humanoid characters.

Once you open the program, you will find an interface with all the options that this software offers.
In this first article I just want to talk about the modeler and the animator.

So without further to do, let's begin. Once you click the modeler panel you will find small menu where you can access the most recent models that you have created, create a new asset and access a tutorial that explains the basic controls of this software.
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Once you create a new asset or open one you created before, you will find yourself with the modeler.

To explain the different tools I divided the interface in parts, which I divided not only for position but for use too:
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• 1 → Top part or Tools related to the viewer
• 2 → Tools to create Voxels
• 3 → Tools to create colour palettes
• 4 → Viewer

Although right now it seems there is too much, don't worry, they are really easier to use than you think. In the viewer part you can see the model on perspective or ortographic. You can also see the voxel as a pixelated image.

From left to right, the tools are these:
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• The home button
• Save button
• Duplicates the number of voxels
• Reduces the number of voxels by half
• Cut the space that is not used on the voxels
• This Trio of tools rotate the model around the axis, red in X, green for Y and blue for Z

In comparision with the modeler part, the animator has less tools to use, which in some parts makes it really difficult to understand.
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But first things first, this is the first thing we see when we click on the animator in voxedit, we can see that is very similar to the modeler's start page, however in here we can see that instead of tutorials we have templates with animations already made. We will talk about this later on.

If we create a new project we can find these different tools:

To explain the different tools here I also divided the interface in different sections:
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• 1 → Top part or Tools related to skeleton
• 2 → The rigging section
• 3 → Timeline and animations
• 4 → Library on where we can see all the models that are inside the same folders as the animator, you can also import other vxm models, which creates a copy of the model in the folder.

From left to right:
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• The home button to return to the principal page
• Save button
• Select the model part you are interested in
• Move the part of the model
• Rotate the part selected
• Two tools to choose between moving only the model or the bone, this is important becasue if you have selected the model you only move the model selected but if you move bone you move the one you selected and the children of the bone
• This button allows you to see the skeleton

From this window we can create the animations, here appears the different bones we created, and see the keyframes. It's important to notice that the animation is always recording, so it your are still creating the rig, don't move the timeline because if we move it we will create a keyframe.
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Once we have the fully animated model, we can create a new animation selecting the menu from the iddle animation, and select new animation. From this menu we can choose and change the animation.

On the Template you can find a set of animations already made, but you can retouch them because the controls of the animation are deactivated.

Once these two parts are explained, I'm going to propose one of the possible pipelines to create your own characters.

For that purpose, first I'm going to explain how the characters work in here. The characters are composed of different parts, in particular NINE (9) essential parts.
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• Head
• Chest
• Hips
• Leg x2
• Foreleg x2
• Feet x2
• Arm x2
• Forearm x2
• Hand x2

Once we have the parts defined, here comes the essential part and where the pipeline divides in two sections, you can either create the parts from the modeler and then import them into the animator. Or open the template and edit the models from the animator.

The first one has a lot of disanvantages, for example you can't control the proportions of the different parts of the models, so when you import them into the animator template to use the animations, the parts does not fit.

If you decide to create a new animation scene, you don't have the animations made, so you need to create them from scratch.
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So if your objective is to create humanoid models, I would recommend to open a template and edit each one of the pieces of the model from the pencil button as we explained on the animator section.

The proportions are already made and the animations work with the model, the cons are that you move the parts, not rotate them and you can edit the animations to make them custom for your model.

All in all, this software is really easy to use and has a few things that are pretty great.
​Such as the connection of the animator with the modeler, and the colour palette.
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However there is still a lot of room for improvement, the software is a bit slow and has no keyboard gestures, which is quite umconfortable (there is no CTRL+S). So you can only save by clicking the save button. There're are all quite small faults but I noticed that these small things slow your work process making the modeling quite slow feat.