{"id":4317,"date":"2012-08-12T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2022-08-17T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:57:04","slug":"context-menu-and-other-gui-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/new\/blog120812\/","title":{"rendered":"Context menu and other GUI updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have changed mouse controls a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Left drag - rotate the camera (look around)<br \/>\nRight drag - rotate around the current object (orbit)<br \/>\nMiddle drag - change the FOV<br \/>\nLeft + Right drag - change the distance to the current object (zoom; works in the Map mode)<\/p>\n<p>Left click - select an object<br \/>\nRight click - select an object and call context menu<br \/>\nMiddle click - return previous\/default FOV<\/p>\n<p>Mouse wheel - change movement velocity<\/p>\n<p>The context menu is slightly changes across different types of objects. If you select the \"Moons\" or \"Planets\" it opens the Solar system browser at the selected object's level (i.e. right click on the planet -> click \"Moons\" -> a browser with moons of this planet will be opened).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4144512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4144512-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4144512-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4144512-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4144512-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4144512-700x393.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4144512.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4446074.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4446074-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4446074-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4446074-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4446074-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4446074-700x393.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4446074.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also I have replaced an ugly purple loading progress bar with annoying messages with a small rotating icon near the FPS counter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404-1024x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404-1024x543.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404-1536x814.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404-700x371.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1501404.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These loading messages are still shown in the Debug mode. This info was really needed only for debug purposes, there are many videos on youtube where people forgot to disable the HUD or change it to minimal mode with Ctrl-~. I think that this rotating icon looks much better and not so annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have changed mouse controls a bit. Left drag - rotate the camera (look around) Right drag - rotate around the current object (orbit) Middle drag - change the FOV Left + Right drag - change the distance to the current object (zoom; works in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}