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Moving around in the Stage View
You can freely move around in the virtual 3D space. What you are moving is actually a virtual camera. The cameras
are described in more details in the
On the right side of the view you can see two controls. There is a circle with cross arrows inside. This can be used to
move the camera. press or click inside the circle and move your finger or cursor while pressing. Below the move
circle is a zoom bar. Pressing here and moving the finger/cursor up or down will zoom the view.
If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel attached and you scroll inside the Stage view then you will rotate left and
right around the center point. On a console you can also use a screen encoder to rotate the view. If you press the
encoder while you scroll, then you will rotate up and down.
Often you can have a button in the title bar that is called Mouse Mode. This can be used to control the camera. In
the picture above it is the button called "Select". This button has several modes:
Select
,
Move
,
Orbit
,
Panning
, and
Zoom
.
Select
is used to select fixtures in the view.
When
Move
is active, then you move the camera around when you click or press inside the stage view and move
your finger or mouse around.
With
Orbit
you can rotate around the point where click or press.
Panning
allows you to turn the camera without moving it.
Zoom
will zoom in and out.
Remember that you are moving a camera. There are several default cameras that you select. The stage view can
show you the stage from a specific camera or from the camera that you have selected in the
In the title bar of the stage view, you might see the camera swipe button. In the picture above it is the button called
[Link Selected]
. If you swipe it, then it might give you the following options:
Stage view - Camera selection
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