GUI Overview

This is the default mars user interface when running in docking mode (Shortcut Strg+D). You can see a big 3D view and a tool panel on top.

3D View

The 3D view is displaying the visual components of a simulation onto the screen. You can move the camera with your arrow keys or by holding down the middle mouse button for translation in the plane of the cameras view or the right mouse button for zooming. If you hold down the left mouse button you can rotate the camera.

Tool Panel

The tool panel gives access to the most important features of MARS.

1. Open: Opens a dialog to choose a file of one of the supported formats to load into the simulation.
2. Clear Simulation: Removes all nodes of the running simulation and resets the scene.
3. Reset Simulation: Resets a simulation to the state when it was loaded.
4. MARS Scene:
5. Add Plane: Adds a plane primitive to the simulation.
6. Add Box: Adds a box primitive to the simulation.
7. Add Sphere: Adds a Sphere primitive to the simulation.
8. Add Mesh: Opens a dialog to import a single mesh into the simulation.
9. Add Material: Adds a default material to the material list.
10. Add Light: Adds a light to the simulation.
11. Add Joint: Adds a joint to two given nodes in the simulation.
12. Add Motor: Adds a motor to a given joint in the simulation.
13. Entity Viewer: Opens or closes the Entity Viewer
14. Start: Starts the simulation.
15. Pause: Pauses the simulation.
16. Single Step: Steps one time frame forward in the simulation.
17. Console: Opens or closes the Console
18. DataBroker: Opens or closes the DataBroker
19. DataBroker Connections: Opens or closes the DataBroker Connections View
20. Configuration: Opens or closes the mars settings dialog.