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Overview

User Interface

User Interface

  1. Display Controller

    Display controller provides various options for scene display, including adding grids or a background color . Quick recording and screenshots can be accessed through menu or keyboard shortcuts.

  2. Scene Viewer

    Scene viewer provides a 3D representation of the current graph. Layout and other display options can be changed via display controller. Basic operations:

    • Move viewpoint: press mouse scroll wheel and move

    • Zoom: Scroll the mouse scroll wheel

  3. Playback Controller

    Playback controller controls the playback of animation. Current framerates and other basic simulation statistics are shown at the right side. To run a simulation,

    • First, enter a positive integer in the textbox as the total number of frames the simulation would have.

    • Then click Run button to start the simulation process.

    • After the simulation process starts, you can pause or adjust playback speed, or even jump to a given frame, by clicking the playback toolbar.

    • To kill a simulation process, simply click Kill.

  4. Main Menu

    Main menu provides common functionalities for the node editor, e.g. open/importing/exporting scenes and subgraphs.

  5. Subnet Editor

    Subnet editor lets you switch between all subnets in a graph, also add/remove a subgraph from the graph. Notice that the main subgraph can only be cleared but not deleted.

  6. Node Editor

    Node editor shows all nodes in the current subnet. Basic operations:

    • Navigation: press mouse scroll wheel and move, or use arrow keys in keyboard

    • Zoom: Scroll the mouse scroll wheel

    • Single-select: Left-click on a node or a connection between nodes

    • Multi-select: Press left mouse button and move

    • Add new node: right-click in node editor, and select a node from the menu.

    • Connect nodes: to connect node A to node B, left-click on a port of node A, then left-click on a port of node B.

    • Delete node/connection: First select, then press Delete on the keyboard to remove selected contents.