Content Creation

Handling Sirikata content

• 3D Content Creation describes our evolving intructions for bringing content into Sirikata

Camera/object controls

• Moving
  • Shift-W = Forward
  • Shift-S = Back
  • Shift-A = Left
  • Shift-D = Right
• Left click drag controls:
  • W = move
  • E = rotate (Not easy to control, make rotation relative to the starting orientation, not to the last frame)
  • R = scale
  • T = (for now) click and drag to rotate scene, because the mac has broken right mouse button
• G = group/ Alt-G = ungroup
• Enter/Escape = enter or exit group (Selection is still quirky)
• Ctrl-V / D = Duplicate
• B = Create Light (Buggy--doesn't update white selection box. If you hit this, only the light is selected, nothing else)

Not yet implemented/Wishlist

• L = list of objects in scene
• Z = center and fly to object
• Avatar controls wait for when we have an avatar
• Support chatting once we have networking?
• O = Show Object Properties
• Alt-Click = Deselect just this object (Not Done, does toggle for now)
• Right click drag = pan? Hold back button = rotate??

Misc coming sections in this wiki

• Training videos
• documentation
• current projects
• future projects/research

Other features

• Light icon (Attach a sub-object to the Light's SceneNode), don't make it an actual mesh entity, ideally just have a hardcoded light mesh.
• Ray casting to the polygon level
• DDS without best mipmap
• Simple text (for status bar, and pie menus)
• Requires browser:
  • Move/rotate/scale by axis
  • Light properties (O key)
  • Undo/history (ideally like photoshop, not sure what to do if somebody else modifies the objects in the meantime
  • Object List