Viewer Menu Preferences
The Examiner Viewer and the Walk Viewer both have a Preference pop-up
panel. The panels contain almost the same settings; the Walk Viewer
alone has a setting for viewer speed and the Examiner Viewer alone has
a setting for spin animation and a setting for point of rotation axes.
Find it: Viewer Menu >
Preferences
See it:
How it works:
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Seek animation time--sets the time for the seek function. Set this to 0
for instant seek.
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Seek to--allows two levels of accuracy for the seek function. Seek to
point uses the selected point to dolly the camera to. Seek
to object uses the center of the object to dolly the camera to.
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Seek distance--defines how far the camera moves; measured in
meters or the percentage of distance between the camera and the seek
destination point.
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Camera zoom--changes the angle of the camera lens. Produces
a wide angle lens distortion when you zoom out and a flattening of the
model or scene when you zoom in. The camera does not move when you
zoom; only the lens angle changes.
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Zoom slider ranges from--the default setting for the zoom
slider range is 1.0 to 140.0. You can adjust the minimum and maximum
ranges to as low as 0 and as high as 180 degrees.
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Auto clipping planes--default is on, which means Cosmo
Worlds automatically sets the clipping
planes for the best dynamic fit for the object on the
screen. If you turn Auto clipping planes off, you can move
the clipping planes by using the rotation thumbwheels that appear.
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Stereo viewing--turn stereo viewing on to change the camera
rotation using the thumbwheel that appears. Use this option if people
looking at your scene have special stereo glasses and hardware. Default
is off.
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Enable spin animation (Examiner Viewer only, view mode)--turns
on or off the ability to quickly rotate and let go of an object to make
it spin. To spin, click and drag an object with the hand icon. Release
the mouse button while still dragging the mouse, and the object
continues spinning. To stop the spinning, click anywhere in the scene.
Default is on.
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Show point of rotation axes (Examiner Viewer only, view mode)--shows
the point about which the camera rotates. When you turn it on, you can
also change the size of the axes using the thumbwheel that appears.
Default is off.
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Viewer speed increase/decrease (Walk Viewer only)--increases
or decreases the viewing speed in meters per second. This is useful
when navigating through worlds that are not at the right speed. Note
that these settings do not get saved with the VRML file. Authors should
use Navigation Info to save the
viewer speed in the file.