Showing posts with label Keyboard Shortcuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keyboard Shortcuts. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2016

ActiveWorlds Keyboard Shortcuts on DuckDuckGo

Hey all! Just a very brief update... I wanted to share that I created a DuckDuckGo Instant Answer recently for ActiveWorlds keyboard shortcuts. This will appear above search results when you search certain key phrases like:

  • ActiveWorlds Cheat Sheet
  • ActiveWorlds Help
  • Alphaworld Cheat Sheet
  • Active Worlds Cheat Sheet
  • etc...

You can check it out here!


Anyone can contribute to this sheet of shortcuts.  You can check this cheat sheet out on DuckDuckGo's dev community here.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Building - Basic Terrain Manipulation

For private world owners, manipulating the terrain is very simple and can go a long way to adding character to virtual landscapes and scenes.  Terrain editing used to be a caretaker-only right, but as of Active Worlds 4.2 Build 1015 can be given to users through the World Rights list. Public worlds also have limited terrain editing abilities, and rely on bots such as Demeter to allow builders to manipulate terrain on their property.

This tutorial explains simple terrain editing for users who can edit terrain directly.  Terrain in Active Worlds is manipulated at the intersection of coordinate grids.  You can view the coordinate grid by pressing F10 in Active Worlds.  This is the easiest visual way to distinguish between different areas terrain, especially if they have the same terrain texture or are on the same elevation.