Media Machines - Flux Player User Guide

Navigation Modes

Explore Mode - Used for X3D WALK or FLY navigation modes.

Left mouse button - Activates a move. Drag the pointer in the scene window to move in the world. Drag up to move forward, drag down to move backward, drag left to turn left, and drag right to turn right. Your view moves in the direction of travel. Hold down Shift key to move faster.
Middle mouse button - Tilts the view. Drag to look up and down or from side to side without moving.
Right mouse button - Activates a pan movement. Drag to pan straight up or down, or to slide right or left. Pan does not turn your view in the direction of travel. Hold down Shift key to pan faster. Click and release the right mouse button without dragging to drop down a context menu with all of the same commands as in the dashboard (see below).

Examine Mode - Used for X3D EXAMINE navigation mode.

Left mouse button - Activates a rotation. Drag to rotate an object in front of the user about the center of rotation.
Middle mouse button - Activates a zoom. Drag up to zoom in or drag down to zoom out.
Right mouse button - Activates a pan movement. Drag to pan straight up or down, or to slide right or left. Pan does not turn your view in the direction of travel.

Seek - Click the Seek control and then click an object in the Flux window to go directly to it. The pointer should change to indicate a seek operation is being expected by Flux when the Seek control is clicked.
Straighten - (Not implemented in this build) Click to place the user's view upright and level in the world.
Undo - Click to move back to the last view location.
Redo - Click to move forward to the last undone view location.

Viewpoints List - Click to display a list of interesting places in the world.
Next Viewpoint - Click a control to go to the next viewpoint in the Viewpoint list.
Previous Viewpoint - Click a control to go to the previous viewpoint in the Viewpoint list.

Info - Opens the Flux console to display Flux status messages and user printing output.
Preferences - (Not implemented in this beta) Allows the user to set options for Flux behavior.
Help - Provides help options

Arrow keys - Left, right, up and down keys can be used to move through the world in MOVE mode or to rotate the model in ROTATE mode.
Space bar - Cycles through the entries in the Viewpoints list. Page Up/Page Down keys currently not supported but will be in the next beta.

The Flux right mouse menu contains all of the same commands as the dashboard. Click and release the right mouse button without dragging to initiate this menu.
Bugnote: Please note that the menu accelerator keys do not work in this build (build 543).