Reference Manual

Startup

When you startup wxFlythrough without a BSDL scene as argument, an empty scene containing a box and one light source only is displayed.

Navigation

You can inspect the scene using the right mouse button. The camera rotates around the current lookpoint. Moving the mouse horizontally rotates the camera horizontally around the lookpoint. A vertical move of the mouse moves the camera above or below the lookpoint.

To zoom inside or outside, press the Shift key while moving the mouse vertically.

If you want to inspect an object, you can select it and apply Menu-View-Inspect Selection which moves the camera to the selected object and places the lookpoint to the middle of the object's boundingbox.

Selection

Pressing the left mouse button selects the object under the mouse pointer. While pressing the shift key, you can select multiple objects. The only benefit of selecting objects at the moment is to change the view in order to inspect the selected object. Use Menu-View-Inspect Selection to move the camera to the selected object.

Display quality

You can adjust the display and motion quality by selecting View-Preferences in the menubar. In the dialogbox, you can adjust the rendering quality, the motion quality, framerate, and the time in backbuffer.

The Console

The console window can be opened for viewing error messages during loading of files.

Loading files

You can either load files with the Menu-File-Load or by dropping BSDL3-files from the Windows Explorer into the wxFlythrough window.  

Reloading files

With Menu-Reload, the same file is reloaded again. This enables the user to modify the 3D scene in a text editor and watching the changes in wxFlythrough by reloading the file.

Saving files

Bernhard Bühlmann
1997