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Desktop Navigation

Skyreal VR currently differents Desktop Navigation modes: Fly, Walk, Catia V5 and Snap To. By default, Skyreal VR opens up in Catia V5 navigation. To change the navigation mode, click on the desired Navigation button in the top right corner of the main viewport:

Similar to Unreal Engine's navigation, it allows the user to move around the scene using the arrow keys and mouse. Use the arrow keys to move forward, left, backward, and right, similar to controls in many first-person games. Scrolling the mouse wheel zooms in and out, and holding the right mouse button pans the camera.

Additionally, you can learn more about navigation in Unreal Engine here.

When in Fly mode, you can pass through objects in the scene.

Fly Parameters

By clicking on the navigation bar menu, you can adjust the navigation and rotation speed in Fly mode.

Walk mode works the same way as Fly mode, with the constraint of being aligned to the floor while moving around the scene. The default height of the user's pawn in Walk mode is set to 1.65 m.

In walk mode, we collide with any object higher than 30cm.

Walk Parameters

By clicking on the navigation bar menu, you can adjust the speed, rotation and height of the user's pawn.

The Catia V5 navigation mode is very similar to the mouse navigation mode used in the Catia software. It is possible to zoom, pan and rotate your point of view in the simulation using the mouse.

Panning allows you to move the model on a plane parallel to the screen.
Drag the mouse while clicking and keep the middle mouse button pressed.
Rotating allows you to rotate the simulation around a point.
or Drag the mouse while clicking and keep the middle and left (or right) mouse buttons pressed.
Zooming allows you to move closer to the model or away from it along a plane perpendicular to the screen.
then or Click and keep the middle mouse button pressed while clicking the left or right mouse button once, and then drag the mouse up (to move closer) and down (to move away).”
To center an object on the screen simply click the middle () mouse button on the geometry that you want to have in the center of the screen. The orientation and the scale of the view will remain unchanged.