ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MoI Command Reference</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-16"> <STYLE> body { font:12pt Arial, sans-serif; } table { font-size:100%; } h3 { font-style:italic; } .linkpaletteindent { margin-left:2em; } .icontable { text-align:center; border:1px solid gray; background-color:#EFEFFF; } .icontablefloat { text-align:center; float:left; margin-right:1em; border:1px solid gray; background-color:#EFEFFF; } .indent { margin-top:1em; margin-left:2em; } .palettelabel { font-size:130%; } .scriptcode { font-family:monospace; margin-left:4em; padding:0.15em 0.4em; overflow:auto; border:1px solid gray; } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY><A href="moi_command_reference.htm">Back to reference index</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A href="moi_command_reference8.htm">Prev page</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A href="moi_command_reference10.htm">Next page</A><BR><BR><!--split--> <DIV class=palettelabel id="Viewport controls">Viewport controls</DIV> <DIV class=indent id=zoomarea> <TABLE class=icontablefloat> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG height=64 src="icons/ZoomArea.png" width=64></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>Area</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <P>Zooms in and centers the view on a smaller specified area.</P> <P>The area is defined by a center point and then a corner forming a rectangle.</P> <P>For the 3D view, the picked center point will become the new rotation pivot point as well, so sometimes Zoom Area can be useful to focus in on a particular spot that you want the 3D view to pivot around.</P></DIV> <DIV style="CLEAR: left"></DIV><BR> <DIV class=indent id=zoom> <TABLE class=icontablefloat> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG height=64 src="icons/Zoom.png" width=64></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>Zoom</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <P>Zooms the view in or out.</P> <P>In addition to this zoom button, you can also spin the scroll wheel on a mouse to zoom in or out.</P> <P>To use this zoom button, click and hold down on the button and then while still holding down, drag up to zoom in or drag down to zoom out.</P> <P>By default the button is fairly sensitive so you don't need to move the mouse pointer very far to control it. Try moving only a pretty small distance up or down.</P> <P>You can flip the up/down action and adjust the sensitivity under Options / View / Rotate/Pan/Zoom options.</P></DIV> <DIV style="CLEAR: left"></DIV><BR> <DIV class=indent id=pan> <TABLE class=icontablefloat> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG height=64 src="icons/Pan.png" width=64></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>Pan</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <P>Moves the view left, right, up or down.</P> <P>In addition to this pan button, you can also click and drag inside a viewport with the middle mouse button (or also the right mouse button in the Top, Front, or Right views). If you have a mouse wheel pushing down on the wheel also acts as a middle button.</P> <P>To use this pan button, click and hold down on the button and then while still holding down, drag up, down, left, or right to reposition the view towards that direction.</P> <P>By default the button is fairly sensitive so you don't need to move the mouse pointer very far to control it. Try using smaller motions instead of moving by a large distance.</P> <P>Panning works with a kind of accelerated motion. You can drag a small distance and then hold still, and the view will continue to move in that direction. If you move a further distance the movement will accelerate.</P> <P>You can reverse the directions of the movement and adjust the sensitivity under Options / View / Rotate/Pan/Zoom options.</P></DIV> <DIV style="CLEAR: left"></DIV><BR> <DIV class=indent id=rotateview> <TABLE class=icontablefloat> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG height=64 src="icons/RotateView.png" width=64></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>Rotate</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <P>Rotates the 3D view around the pivot point.</P> <P>In addition to this rotate button, you can also click and drag inside the 3D view with the right mouse button as a different way to rotate.</P> <P>It often helps to use the Reset button to set the pivot point to the center of the selected objects before doing a rotation. You can also use the Area zoom button to set the rotation pivot to a point directly on one specific part of an object if you want to pivot around one particular area.</P> <P>To use this rotate button, click and hold down on the button and then while still holding down, drag up, down, left, or right to rotate the view towards that direction.</P> <P>By default the button is somewhat sensitive so you don't need to move the mouse pointer too far to control it. Try using smaller motions instead of moving by a large distance.</P> <P>Rotation using the button works with a kind of accelerated motion. You can drag a small distance and then hold still, and the view will continue to rotate in that direction. If you move a further distance the rotation will accelerate in speed.</P> <P>You can reverse the directions of the movement and adjust the sensitivity under Options / View / Rotate/Pan/Zoom options.</P></DIV> <DIV style="CLEAR: left"></DIV><BR> <DIV class=indent id=reset> <TABLE class=icontablefloat> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG height=64 src="icons/ViewReset.png" width=64></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>Reset</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <P>Fills the view with either the selected objects or all objects.</P> <P>On the first click Reset will target just the selected objects and adjust the view so the selected objects fill up the viewport.</P> <P>If you click the button a second time, Reset will target all objects in the model regardless of selection, zooming to fit everything within the view.</P> <P>Reset also places the pivot point for rotating the 3D view at the center of what it zoomed to.</P> <P>If you right-click on the Reset button, the reset will be applied to all viewports.</P> <P>If there are no objects visible, Reset will restore the view to the initial startup default view.</P></DIV> <DIV style="CLEAR: left"></DIV><BR> <P>&nbsp;</P><BR><BR><A href="moi_command_reference.htm">Back to reference index</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A href="moi_command_reference8.htm">Prev page</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A href="moi_command_reference10.htm">Next page</A><BR><BR><BR> <P style="FONT-SIZE: 60%">© 2007 Triple Squid Software Design</P></BODY></HTML>