Documentation  »  Controls

Ogitor has lots of keyboard/mouse controls and short-cuts. Let's go through them all, in small chunks at a time.

Basic Survival (Common Controls)

  This is an overview of the most common keyboard/mouse controls:

Select Object

Left Mouse Button

Look and Rotate View

Right Mouse Button

Rotate around Selected Object

[ALT] + Right Mouse Button

Pan

Middle Mouse Button

Zoom in/out

Scroll Wheel

Movement

Use the [W][A][S][D] keys to move forwards, backwards, left and right. [Q] and [E] moves the camera up and down.

Zoom in on selected object

Hold the [ALT] key while zooming (using the middle mouse button) and your zoom will stop by the selected object.

Focus Selected Object

[F]

Set focus to an unselected object

Hold the [ALT] key while clicking on an object (using the left mouse button).

Delete selected object

Press the [DELETE] key

Select object when not in select mode

Click on an object using the left mouse button while having the [ALT] button pressed. (Same as zoom to unselected object).

Switch between camera positions:

Hold down [CTRL] while clicking [1-9] to cycle between saved camera positions.

Transformation Mode Controls

Ogitor behaves differently when you are not in select mode, but in one of the three transformation modes: translate, rotate and scale. In the Render Window, at the top, you'll find the Render Toolbar: Here you switch between select mode and transformation modes, using the second toolbar section:

Common Transformation Mode Controls

Here's an overview of the mouse/keyboard controls common for all transformation modes: When in Translate transformation mode, the gizmo changes. By selecting a gizmo axis or a gizmo plane by the mouse, you restrict the transformation to an axis or a plane:

Axis Lock

Plane Lock

For instance, when having selected the bottom (X/Z) plane, any transformation will occur in that plane only. Use the [END] key to cycle through the axes/planes, without having to explicitly selecting the gizmo by the mouse. Axis/Plane restrict works in all transformation modes.

Translate Transformation Mode Controls

Translate Gizmo

If no Axis is selected, default movement plane is the plane facing directly to the camera.

Cloning Objects

Hold [SHIFT] while dragging an object (in Render Window) to clone an object.

Snap to Grid

Hold down [CONTROL] to snap the object to the grid.

Rotate Transformation Mode Controls

Rotate Gizmo

Snap to Angle

Hold down [CONTROL] to snap the object to angle while rotating.

Scale Transformation Mode Controls

Scale Gizmo

  No special controls exists for this mode.

Special Controls

Terrain Controls

Smooth/Deform

[SHIFT] will reverse the operation when smoothing/deforming, changing from pushing to pulling vertices.