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New controls.txt file for Celestia docs

Posted: 27.10.2002, 16:10
by Anarion
Hello everyone!
Since the new version of Celestia has new and different controls, I thought it would be useful to have a new reference for the controls avaible.

I saw that the controls displayed in the 'controls' scetion under the 'help' menu are listed in the 'controls.txt' file under the main directory of Celestia, and I updated that informations.

To update this list, you just have to substitute the content of that file with the following text, and you'll see the updated informations in Celestia:

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Mouse and Keyboard Controls for Celestia


Mouse Functions:

Left drag to orient camera
Right drag to orbit the selected object
Use the mouse wheel to adjust distance to selection (for wheelless
mice, dragging while holding left and right buttons or left dragfing
while holding control to dolly camera will adjust distance)
Left drag while holding shift to zoom
Click the wheel to reset the field of view to 45 degrees
Left-click to select; double click to center selection
Right-click to bring up context menu

Keyboard Commands

Navigation:
H  : Select the sun (Home)
C  : Center on selected object
G  : Goto selected object
F  : Follow selected object
Y  : Orbit the selected object at a rate synced to its rotation
T  : Track selected object (keep selected object centered in view)
HOME : Move closer to object
END  : Move farther from object
ESC  : Cancel motion or script
Left/Right Arrows : Roll Camera
Up / Down Arrows  : Change Camera Pitch

Selection:
0   : Select Star in the actual Solar System
1-9 : Select the n-th planet in the Solar System

Labels:
P  : Toggle planet labels
M  : Toggle moon labels
W  : Toggle asteroid and comet labels
N  : Toggle spaceprobes labels
B  : Toggle star labels
E  : Toggle galaxy labels
=  : Toggle constellation labels
V  : Toggle info text

Time:
Space : stop time
L  : Time 10x faster
K  : Time 10x slower
J  : Reverse time

Options:
U  : Toggle galaxy rendering
O  : Toggle planet orbits
/  : Toggle constellation diagrams
Ctrl+A : Toggle atmospheres
I  : Toggle cloud textures
Ctrl+L : Toggle night side planet maps (light pollution)
Ctrl+E : Toggle eclipse shadow rendering
Ctrl+S : Toggle rendering stars as points (otherwise, they're
textures)
;  : Show an earth-based equatorial coordinate sphere
[  : Decrease limiting magnitude (fewer stars visible)
]  : Increase limiting magnitude (more stars visible)
{  : Decrease ambient illumination
}  : Increase ambient illumination
,  : Narrow field of view
.  : Widen field of view
ALT+ENTER  : Toggle full-screen
Ctrl+X : Toggle anti-aliasing
Ctrl+P : Toggle per-pixel lighting (if supported)
Ctrl+V : Toggle vertex programs (if supported)
r R: lower or raise texture resolution

Spaceflight:
F1 : Stop
F2 : Set velocity to 1 km/s
F3 : Set velocity to 1,000 km/s
F4 : Set velocity to speed of light
F5 : Set velocity to 10x the speed of light.
F6 : Set velocity to 1 AU/s
F7 : Set velocity to 1 ly/s
S  : Stop
A  : Increase velocity
Z  : Decrease velocity
Q  : Reverse direction
X  : Set movement direction toward center of screen

Number pad:
4  : Yaw left
6  : Yaw right
8  : Pitch down
2  : Pitch up
7  : Roll left
9  : Roll right
5  : Stop rotation

Joystick:
X axis : yaw
Y axis : pitch
L trigger : roll left
R trigger : roll right
Button 1 : slower
Button 2 : faster

Other:
D   : Run demo
F8  : Enable joystick
F10 : Capture image to file
SHIFT+F10 : Capture movie to file
`   : Show frames rendered per second
ENTER : Select a star or planet by typing its name

Selections:
For planets, moon, asteroids, spacecraft: you must be already in the
relative star system, before trying to select them

Names:
Full name for planets, moons, asteroids, spacecraft and
named stars. The first 3 letters of the Bayer name and the
abbreviation of the constellation (like alp and), or HD followed by
the Henry Draper catalog number. They are case-insensitive. For
galaxies, use the names declarated in galaxies.dat or displayed on
the screen, and remember that they are case-sensitive.


I hope that this list is correct and complete... and I apologize for possible grammar or typing errors!
Regards
Anarion

New controls.txt file for Celestia docs

Posted: 27.10.2002, 16:40
by t00fri
Anarion wrote:Hello everyone!
Since the new version of Celestia has new and different controls, I thought it would be useful to have a new reference for the controls avaible.

I saw that the controls displayed in the 'controls' scetion under the 'help' menu are listed in the 'controls.txt' file under the main directory of Celestia, and I updated that informations.

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I hope that this list is correct and complete... and I apologize for possible grammar or typing errors!
Regards
Anarion


I have continuously upgraded controls.txt in the CVS version of Celestia, hence the forthcoming version 1.2.5 should essentially be up-to-date in this respect. There are 2 recent key accelerators that Chris has introduced (and you do not seem to know about). They are not yet listed in controls.txt.

Since you forgot to mention which version of Celestia you were referring to, I can only guess:

Versions 1.2.5preX should have essentially an updated controls.txt. I guess you are referring to version 1.2.4. right?

Bye Fridger

Posted: 30.10.2002, 10:47
by Anarion
Oh, yes! I forgotted to say that I was speking of version 1.2.4 (last time I've downloaded version 1.2.5 pre it crashed on my PC, so I though it was better to wait a little...).

...You're right, I've forgotted the new phase lock mode (:) and chase mode (")!

Here's the complete (?) list...

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Mouse and Keyboard Controls for Celestia


Mouse Functions:

Left drag to orient camera
Right drag to orbit the selected object
Use the mouse wheel to adjust distance to selection (for wheelless
mice, dragging while holding left and right buttons or left dragfing
while holding control to dolly camera will adjust distance)
Left drag while holding shift to zoom
Click the wheel to reset the field of view to 45 degrees
Left-click to select; double click to center selection
Right-click to bring up context menu

Keyboard Commands

Navigation:
H  : Select the sun (Home)
C  : Center on selected object
G  : Goto selected object
F  : Follow selected object
Y  : Orbit the selected object at a rate synced to its rotation
T  : Track selected object (keep selected object centered in view)
:   :  Phase lock mode (follow a planet, select another object -or nothing to use Sol-, type :)
"   : Chase mode (keeps your orientation constant with respect to the direction in which an object is moving)
HOME : Move closer to object
END  : Move farther from object
ESC  : Cancel motion or script
Left/Right Arrows : Roll Camera
Up / Down Arrows  : Change Camera Pitch

Selection:
0   : Select Star in the actual Solar System
1-9 : Select the n-th planet in the Solar System

Labels:
P  : Toggle planet labels
M  : Toggle moon labels
W  : Toggle asteroid and comet labels
N  : Toggle spaceprobes labels
B  : Toggle star labels
E  : Toggle galaxy labels
=  : Toggle constellation labels
V  : Toggle info text

Time:
Space : stop time
L  : Time 10x faster
K  : Time 10x slower
J  : Reverse time

Options:
U  : Toggle galaxy rendering
O  : Toggle planet orbits
/  : Toggle constellation diagrams
Ctrl+A : Toggle atmospheres
I  : Toggle cloud textures
Ctrl+L : Toggle night side planet maps (light pollution)
Ctrl+E : Toggle eclipse shadow rendering
Ctrl+S : Toggle rendering stars as points (otherwise, they're
textures)
ALT- 23 : Toggle Wireframe mode
;  : Show an earth-based equatorial coordinate sphere
[  : Decrease limiting magnitude (fewer stars visible)
]  : Increase limiting magnitude (more stars visible)
{  : Decrease ambient illumination
}  : Increase ambient illumination
,  : Narrow field of view
.  : Widen field of view
ALT+ENTER  : Toggle full-screen
Ctrl+X : Toggle anti-aliasing
Ctrl+P : Toggle per-pixel lighting (if supported)
Ctrl+V : Toggle vertex programs (if supported)
r R: lower or raise texture resolution

Spaceflight:
F1 : Stop
F2 : Set velocity to 1 km/s
F3 : Set velocity to 1,000 km/s
F4 : Set velocity to speed of light
F5 : Set velocity to 10x the speed of light.
F6 : Set velocity to 1 AU/s
F7 : Set velocity to 1 ly/s
S  : Stop
A  : Increase velocity
Z  : Decrease velocity
Q  : Reverse direction
X  : Set movement direction toward center of screen

Number pad:
4  : Yaw left
6  : Yaw right
8  : Pitch down
2  : Pitch up
7  : Roll left
9  : Roll right
5  : Stop rotation

Joystick:
X axis : yaw
Y axis : pitch
L trigger : roll left
R trigger : roll right
Button 1 : slower
Button 2 : faster

Other:
D   : Run demo
F8  : Enable joystick
F10 : Capture image to file
SHIFT+F10 : Capture movie to file
` (ALT-96) : Show frames rendered per second
ENTER : Select a star or planet by typing its name
~ (ALT-126): Toggle Edit Mode (Ctrl-Shift-right mouse to rotate selected galaxies in the current view for matching with photos)
Selections:
For planets, moon, asteroids, spacecraft: you must be already in the
relative star system, before trying to select them

Names:
Full name for planets, moons, asteroids, spacecraft and
named stars. The first 3 letters of the Bayer name and the
abbreviation of the constellation (like alp and), or HD followed by
the Henry Draper catalog number. They are case-insensitive. For
galaxies, use the names declarated in galaxies.dat or displayed on
the screen, and remember that they are case-sensitive.


for completeness I list also the "edit mode", but is it useful?
that's all (for now)
Anarion

Posted: 30.10.2002, 13:00
by Guest
I do not understand what you say.

Your work may be useful for people using Celestia 1.2.4. For people using 1.2.5preX or 1.2.5-CVS versions, controls.txt has been updated over weeks by myself. It was mostly me who incorporated new key accelerators or made the old ones work in the Celestia code that will come out soon as Version 1.2.5. So I took also care of updating controls.txt correspondingly.

The 2 new keys that Chris incorporated recently are '!'= reset to local time and 'Backspace' that resets the Selection to nothing. For these and only these, controls.txt still needs to be updated.

Bye Fridger

Posted: 30.10.2002, 13:03
by t00fri
This box just does not let me think for a moment!

Again, I lost my identity right above...

Bye Fridger