Functionality
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My Avatar
Navigating
Cursor Shapes
Popup Menu
Keyboard Shortcuts
My Avatar
Right-click within the 3D window and select View my Avatar to switch to the 3rd person mode to see your own avatar. In 3rd person mode you will always see your own avatar walking in front of you. Right-click and select View my Avatar again to turn it off.
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| Navigating
Navigation is done with a mouse drag or the cursor (arrow) keys on your keyboard. The direction of the mouse drag determines the direction you will move to. The distance from the point where you started dragging determines the speed of movement. With some navigation modes you can use temporary modes. These modes are activated by pressing an additional key. The temporary mode is then active as long as the additional key is pressed. |
Walk
If you are in walk mode the cursor will show a cross with a ´W´ in its lower right corner. | Walking with the mouse
Press the left mouse button within the scene then drag the mouse toward the top or bottom of the screen to move forward or backward. Drag the mouse toward the left or right to turn to the left or right. The distance from the point where you started dragging determines the speed of movement.
Walking with the cursor keys
Press the ´arrow up´ key to move forward, the ´arrow down´ key to move backward, the ´arrow left´ key to turn left or the ´arrow right´ key to turn right. The speed of movement will be constant.
Temporary modes:
Speed Up - By pressing the SHIFT key while navigating you will speed up your motion by factor five.
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Cursor Shapes
There are several different cursor shapes which show you in which mode you are when your mouse cursor is over the 3D window.
| Standard Cursor (arrow) | The 3D window does not have the focus. All keyboard input goes to an application which has the focus. Click the 3D window to get the focus. |
| Cross with ´W´ | Walk mode. |
| Hand | indicates an anchor under the cursor. |
Popup Menu
The Popup-menu can be activated by pressing and holding the right mouse button in the blaxxun Contact window.
- Viewpoints Submenu
- Lists various viewpoints based on the room you are currently located in.
- Graphics Submenu (only displayed if user interface level is set to Expert, go to settings, preferences, general)
- Headlight - Toggle to illuminate scene with an additional light from the viewers position.
- Wireframe- Display wireframe model.
- Vertices - Display vertices model.
- Flat- Display objects using faceted shading.
- Smooth- Display objects using smooth shading.
- Textured- Enable/Disable texture display.
- Smooth Texture - For D3D RGB or Hardware drivers, enable or disable smooth texture filtering.
- Dither - Enable color dithering to improve the rendering appearance, disable for speed.
- Speed Submenu
- Very Slow - move with 10% of your default speed
- Slow - move with 50% of your default speed
- Medium - move with your default speed
- Fast - move with 200% of your default speed
- Very Fast - move with 1000% of your default speed
- View my Avatar: use this selection to enter into 3rd person view (toggle selection)
- Settings Submenu
- Sound - if enabled sounds will be loaded and played, if disabled sound processing will be stopped.
- Preferences - Change preferences and save the startup defaults.
- Help Submenu
- Online Manual - Displays the manual in a new browser window.
- Check for Update – Check for an updated version of the blaxxun plug-in.
- Visit blaxxun - Visit blaxxun interactive WWW Site.
- World Info - Displays information about the current World.
- About - Displays the current version, press "Check Version" for online version check
- Use OpenGL: use this selection if you have having any graphical issues in the 3D window (only displayed if user interface level is set to Expert, go to settings, preferences, general. NOTE: this option may not be available on all systems.)
- Hardware: various video hardware options will be listed based upon your system configuration. (only displayed if user interface level is set to Expert, go to settings, preferences, general.)
Keyboard Shortcuts
The keyboard focus can be set for the 3D window by clicking in that window with the mouse. If the window does not have the focus the cursor over the window is the standard cursor (arrow) otherwise the cursor shape is the navigation cursor of the current mode.
| Cursor(arrow)-Keys | Navigation. Behavior depends on current navigation mode. |
| SHIFT-F9 or F-9 | Opens Preferences Dialog |
| ESC | Stop camera animation or Follow Object or reset to entry viewpoint |
| SHIFT | Speed up |
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