GAMES FOR ASTRONAUTS

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When you see the earth, click on the image, and press your computer's "Page Down" key to travel to various "view points" in space.
Point your mouse at the image and right-click to see a list of options, which includes various ways to navigate about the 3D space.

For example, you can "fly" or "walk" across in space. By clicking in the 3D window and your cursor changes to a cross. Now you either hold down the left mouse button and drag in the desired direction or you may simply use the cursor keys.

MultiUser

Fullscreen

Keyboard shortcuts
'PageUp'/'PageDown'
previous/next viewpoint
Ctrl+Shift+ one of
{'W','F','S','E'}
Switches to 'Walk', 'Fly', 'Slide', 'Examine' navigation
Hold down 'Shift'
to temporarily speed up navigation.
Hold down 'Ctrl'
to modify the current navigation mode.
Navigation changes to 'Pan' while standing (Walk), 'Move (the examing center)' in examine mode, and to 'Slide' in all other modes.

'F3' 'jump to'.
Click on an object to automatically move to it.
'F7' toggles frame rate display
'F8' shows current camera position
'F9' shows blaxxun Contact (3D) settings dialog box.
'F11' saves current state of world to cache
'ESC' restores initial viewpoint.

Trouble Shooting

Contact 5.0 uses DirectX7 or OpenGL as render engines. If you saw the message 'DirectX 7 recommended' during installation, you should get DirectX 7 or the latest version (currently DirectX8) from Microsoft.

Best viewed at 1024x768

last update 17 sept 2004