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Controls

In addition to the following demo specific controls, the demo also inherits the camera controls of the PathEngine testbed.
Refer to this page, for information about these camera controls.

(Using the numeric key camera controls is recommended for this demo, since the left mouse button is being used to issue move orders, so, for example, hold '3' and move mouse to zoom in.)

Issuing a movement order

Point at the desired goal position and click the left mouse button to issue a movement order to the current selection set.

Changing the selection set

Press right mouse button (with the pointer over mesh geometry), drag, and release, to modify the selection set.

  • Right mouse - Create a new selection set containing the agents inside the dragged bounding box.
  • Shift + Right mouse - Agents inside the dragged bounding box are added to the current selection.
  • Control + Right mouse - Selection status is toggled for agents inside the dragged bounding box.
  • A world space bounding box is used, for simplicity, but this can be a bit unintuitive after the camera has been rotated.

    Corridor position visualisation

    You can visualise the set of 'corridor positions' for a given path by pressing 'S' to set the start of the visualisation path and 'E' for the end of the visualisation path.

    Pause and single step advance

    Pressing 'P' pauses (or unpauses) the action. Pressing 'A' when paused then advances one single update step at a time.


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