Fractal Explorer Landscape Navigation Control Tutorial

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When you open up the landscape mode you will see the navigation controls to the right of your screen. This is what they look like.

navigation controls




You click on these controls when you want to spin the landscape on it's axis. Try it, it's interesting especially when you spin the front of the island down into the water and the back of the island goes into the air. Keep spinning it and usually you'll see an interesting thing happen.

spin the landscape on it's axis




With these controls you move the whole island/landscape towards or away from you or left and right.

move the whole island/landscape




With these controls you feel like you are spinning around in circles or looking up into the air or down towards your feet.

looking




With these two arrows you feel as if you are moving yourself closer and farther from the island. The movement is slightly different from what the controls highlighted as 2 do.

move closer and farther away




With this control you can make the landscape larger or smaller depending upon what your computer can handle. Generally speaking, the larger you can make it the better, if you have to reduce the size at a later date that is fine because that will anti-alias (or get rid of the jaggies in the image) for you.
One thing I've noticed is that if the image is bigger than your screen the image may not be saved correctly, anything that is off the screen may be a bunch of lines. So you may have to raise your screen resolution in order to get a larger image.


change the size of the graphic