Camera modes#

We have already talked about the focus camera mode, but Gaia Sky provides some more camera modes:

  • 0 - Free mode: the camera is not locked to a focus object and can roam freely. The movement is achieved with the scroll wheel of the mouse, and the view is controlled by clicking and draggin the left and right mouse buttons

  • 1 - Focus mode: the camera is locked to a focus object and its movement depends on it

  • 2 - Game mode: similar to free mode but the camera is moved with wasd and the view (pitch and yaw) is controlled with the mouse. This control system is commonly found in FPS (First-Person Shooter) games on PC

  • 3 - Spacecraft mode: take control of a spacecraft (outside the scope of this tutorial)

The most interesting mode is free mode which lets us roam freely. Go ahead and press 0 to try it out. The controls are a little different from those of focus mode, but they should not be to hard to get used too. Basically, use the left mouse button to yaw and pitch the view, use shift to roll, and use the right mouse button to pan.

Docs

See the camera modes section of the user manual.

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