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To enter modelviewer mode, launch the game with:
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= Starting the Model Viewer =
  
pioneer -mv <optional model name>
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=== Windows ===
  
''OSX Only:'' Hold down the Option key while clicking on the pioneer.app icon to launch the model viewer instead of the game.
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Create a shortcut to pioneer.exe. Edit shortcut properties, and add " -mv" to the end of the Target box, so that the whole Target is something like:
  
In windows an easy way to open the model viewer is to create a shortcut to pioneer.exe then add '-mv shipname' to the end of the target in the shortcut properties (without the ' ), then you only have to run the shortcut to load the model viewer.
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    C:\Users\jpab\pioneer\Pioneer.exe -mv
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Then you can run the model viewer by using the shortcut.
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Or use the command line (like Linux)
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=== OS X ===
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Hold down the Option key while clicking on the pioneer.app icon to launch the model viewer instead of the game.
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Or use the command line (like Linux)
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=== Linux ===
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Pass the "-mv" flag when running the game:
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    pioneer -mv <optional model name>
  
 
= Hotkeys =
 
= Hotkeys =

Revision as of 14:47, 20 January 2013

Starting the Model Viewer

Windows

Create a shortcut to pioneer.exe. Edit shortcut properties, and add " -mv" to the end of the Target box, so that the whole Target is something like:

   C:\Users\jpab\pioneer\Pioneer.exe -mv

Then you can run the model viewer by using the shortcut.

Or use the command line (like Linux)

OS X

Hold down the Option key while clicking on the pioneer.app icon to launch the model viewer instead of the game.

Or use the command line (like Linux)

Linux

Pass the "-mv" flag when running the game:

   pioneer -mv <optional model name>

Hotkeys

Esc: Quit

Tab: Toggle UI

PrintScr: Screenshot

Space: Reset camera view + thruster sliders

G: Cycle grid mode

R: Randomize colour sliders

Z: Toggle wireframe mode

Camera view presets are like Blender:

  • Numpad 1 - Front view
  • Ctrl+Numpad - Rear view
  • Numpad 3 - Right view
  • Ctrl+Numpad 3 - Left view
  • Numpad 7 - Top view
  • Ctrl+Numpad 7 - Bottom view
  • Numpad2/4/6/8: Rotate view