Viewport, dashboard and desktop icons

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Viewport

1st person/3rd person

In Entropia Universe there are 2 basic access modes: 1st person view and 3rd person view. You can toggle between them using the mouse wheel.

• Entropia Universe first person view.png

  First person view

• Entropia Universe third person view.png

  Third person view

Dashboard / Heads-up display (HUD)

The so called "dashboard" is mainly what is commonly known as Heads-up display (HUD) in video gaming. The dashboard features different panels each of which provides a set of information and features. The standard ones are usually to be found at the bottom from left to right:

1. chat panel
2. status panel
3. radar panel

Each of the panels can be moved around by drag'n'drop operations, the chat panel and the radar panel can be adjusted in size, and the display of the whole dashboard can be switched off.

How to hide the dashboard?

The radar panel

The radar usually can be found in the bottom right corner of the screen (it can also be moved to another postion by drag'n'drop).

At top the radar is showing the name of your current location, fx the name of the Planet or instance.

Below that it is showing your current position as a Latitude and Longitude value.

The left-most little button above the top right section of the actual radar toggles between ??? mode and ??? mode, meaning whether north is always at top or your current view direction is always at top.

The little plus and minus buttons above the top right section of the actual radar are used to resize the radar panel.

The actual radar assumes the avatars position in the center and is showing directions as well as avatars, creatures and facilities represented by dots of different colors.

• Green - Other living avatars.
• White - Other dead avatars
• Purple - Other avatars in the same society as you
• Yellow - Other avatars in the same team as you
• Red - Living creatures
• Dark blue - Carcass of creatures
• Light blue - Teleporters
• Orange - Non-player characters (NPCs).
• ??? - Televator?

The bottom row features 4 different signs with the following meaning (from left to right):

1. PvP zone - Indicates a zone with Player-versus-Player combat (PvP) enabled (Tip: Stay away from PvP areas as long as you don't exactly know how PvP combat works).
   • green - you are not in or close to a PvP zone
   • orange - you are very close to a PvP zone
   • red - you are in a PvP zone
2. Toxic zone - Indicates a zone with Player-versus-Player combat (PvP) and looting of other players enabled (Tip: Stay away from PvP areas as long as you don't exactly know how PvP combat works).
   • green - you are not in or close to a PvP zone with looting
   • orange - you are very close to a PvP zone with looting
   • red - you are in a PvP zone with looting
3. Vehicles allowed in the area - Indicates whether or not vehicles are allowed in the area
   • green - you are in an area in which vehicles are allowed
   • orange - you are very close to an area in which vehicles are not allowed
   • red - you are in an area in which vehicles are not allowed
4. Allowed in the area - Indicates whether or not you are not allowed to be in the area (An area in which you are not allowed to be could for example be an event area during the time of an event for which you don't have a ticket.)
   • green - you are in an area in you are allow to be
   • orange - you are very close to an area in which you are not allowed to be
   • red - you are in an area in which you are not allowed to be

Chat

Chat keys

While you are in chatmode, you can use the following shortcuts for addressing different people:

/e (event) - Sends a chat message to people participating in the event you're taking part in (if any).
/em (emote) - Starts an emote or gesture.
/l (local) - Sends a message to local chat. This is the default, and you do not actually need to use any prefix for it.
/s (society) - Sends a chat message to people in your society (if any).
/t (team) - Sends a chat message to people in your team (if any).
/tr (trade) - Sends a chat message to the trade channel. The trade channel is used by traders peddling their wares.

Moving

Q - Toggle between walking and running mode

W - Move forward

W - Switch to autorun, you need to press the button once to start running and once to stop again

E - Jump

A - Strafe left

S - Move backwards

D - Strafe right

Depending on your settings of first person or third person mode, there are some differences in the use of your mouse. In third person mode (which is the default), when you left-click anywhere within the screen, your avatar will walk towards the position you clicked. You can turn around by pushing down on your right mouse button (RMB), holding it down, and then dragging it.

In First Person mode you can do the same turning with the RMB, but you move using the keys mentioned above. In this mode, when you press space, you will switch to Aim Mode, which will allow you to move around using regular mouse movements.

In both modes, the right-mouse button will show you a pop-up menu with many available options and functions, as well as emotes and dances your avatar can perform. Holding down both the left and the right mouse button will make your avatar walk forwards.

Other keys

F1 - F9 - Switches between sets of shortcuts and hotkeys

G - Shows you the keyboard map with the hotkeys to different commands.

I - Brings up the inventory screen, which will contain all the items your avatar has on it. The inventory window is divided into multiple sections in order to logically group different types of items.

H - Brings up a basic Help screen on how to use your mouse in the Entropia Universe.

J - Shows you your FriendList, which enables you to keep track of your ingame friends.

K - Shows you your avatar skill window. Here you can see how you are progressing skill-wise.

L - Allows you to edit the keyboard settings as well as your shortcut bars. We will look more closely at this in another tutorial.

Left ALT - Allows you to target yourself. This can be useful when you want to heal yourself.

M - Shows you a map of the continent you are on.

O - Shows you the Options screen, where you can switch view modes, and configure some basic settings.

P - Will show you the current position of your avatar. This is done using longitude and latitude coordinates. The message is shown in your chat/screen only.

R - Allows your avatar to run into the direction it is facing.

T - T will enable you to be transported to a nearby revival terminal. This is not neccessarily the closest revival terminal, though.

U - Will give you the current system time and date, as well as the time you have been logged in this session. The message is shown in your chat/screen only.

V - Shows or hides your dashboard.

Y - Brings up the action library, which contains a lot of different actions and settings. We will take a more indepth look at the action library in a future tutorial.

↵ Enter - Allows you to chat with other people. Press Enter once, type your message, and press it again to send it.

Esc - Use Escape to quit the Entropia Universe.

Links, references, contributors, categories

• Guide: Keyboard Mapping

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