Sorry so long to reply, took the kids to the zoo today :)
Glad that the redraw works now, was really worried about that one. As for the controls I'd planned on putting a small help file or a floating info window when the mouse was over something, just hadnt gotten round to it.
The icons on the panel are as follows :
Select Destination
Free Flight Mode
Random System Tour
Full Tour
Zoom
Future help/tutorial button
Toggle Orbit lines on/off
Toggle Planet/moon names on/off
Select Destination - Press this and a menu will expand out showing each planet. Moving the mouse over each planet will show their moons. Click on the planet or moon name you desire and the camera will automatically seek out and go into orbit around the selected target
Free Flight Mode - You control the camera with the mouse. Use the Lft Mouse button/Up arrow to move forward and the Right Mouse button/Down Arrow to reverse. Holding the Left Shift key while moving will amplify your movement speed.
Random System Tour - When selected a random target planet/moon is selected and the camera will go to and orbit the randomly chosen target for 15 - 30 seconds before selecting another target randomly.
Full Tour - Select this and you start the tour at Sol, then move to Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc. At each planet if there is a moon/s then it will track to each of the moons in turn as well before moving to the next planet. Once Sedna has been orbited then the tour starts over again at Sol. Each orbit lasts 15-30 seconds.
Zoom - Allows you to Zoom up to magnification of 50x
Query - Not yet defined
Toggle Orbit lines - Turns orbit lines on or off
Toggle Names - Turns planet/moon names on or off.
Anyone else trying the program out? How is it running on slower systems? Trying to find what would be considered the lowest specs for it.
Glad that the redraw works now, was really worried about that one. As for the controls I'd planned on putting a small help file or a floating info window when the mouse was over something, just hadnt gotten round to it.
The icons on the panel are as follows :
Select Destination
Free Flight Mode
Random System Tour
Full Tour
Zoom
Future help/tutorial button
Toggle Orbit lines on/off
Toggle Planet/moon names on/off
Select Destination - Press this and a menu will expand out showing each planet. Moving the mouse over each planet will show their moons. Click on the planet or moon name you desire and the camera will automatically seek out and go into orbit around the selected target
Free Flight Mode - You control the camera with the mouse. Use the Lft Mouse button/Up arrow to move forward and the Right Mouse button/Down Arrow to reverse. Holding the Left Shift key while moving will amplify your movement speed.
Random System Tour - When selected a random target planet/moon is selected and the camera will go to and orbit the randomly chosen target for 15 - 30 seconds before selecting another target randomly.
Full Tour - Select this and you start the tour at Sol, then move to Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc. At each planet if there is a moon/s then it will track to each of the moons in turn as well before moving to the next planet. Once Sedna has been orbited then the tour starts over again at Sol. Each orbit lasts 15-30 seconds.
Zoom - Allows you to Zoom up to magnification of 50x
Query - Not yet defined
Toggle Orbit lines - Turns orbit lines on or off
Toggle Names - Turns planet/moon names on or off.
Anyone else trying the program out? How is it running on slower systems? Trying to find what would be considered the lowest specs for it.