| Click on the
image, and then press your computer's "Page
Down" key to travel to various view
points within the map.
Point your mouse
at the image and right-click to see a list of
options, which includes various ways to navigate
about the 3D map.
For example, you
can "fly" or "walk" across
the terrain, as below:
Click in the 3D
window and your cursor changes to a cross. Now
you either hold down the left mouse button and
drag in the desired direction or you may simply
use the cursor keys. Check out the other methods
of navigation (keyboard shortcuts, below). If
you have a mouse wheel you may use this too. The
mouse wheel provides 'look up/down' in walk or
fly mode respectively 'move to/away' in all
other modes.
Keyboard
shortcuts
'PageUp'/'PageDown'
previous/next viewpoint
Ctrl+Shift+ one of
{'W','F','S','E'}
Switches to 'Walk', 'Fly', 'Slide', 'Examine'
navigation
Hold down 'Shift'
to temporarily speed up navigation.
Hold down 'Ctrl'
to modify the current navigation mode.
Navigation changes to 'Pan' while standing
(Walk), 'Move (the examing center)' in examine
mode, and to 'Slide' in all other modes.
'F3' 'jump to'.
Click on an object to automatically move to it.
'F7' toggles frame rate display
'F8' shows current camera position
'F9' shows blaxxun Contact (3D) settings
dialog box.
'F11' saves current state of world to
cache
'ESC' restores initial viewpoint.
Trouble
Shooting
Contact 5.0 uses
DirectX7 or OpenGL as render engines. If you saw
the message 'DirectX 7 recommended' during
installation, you should get DirectX
7 or the latest
version (currently DirectX8) from Microsoft. |
