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Map Beta is three-dimensional. Stars are shown as colored dots - the shades of which can be changed to represent different sorts of data: security status, services, sovereignity, number of pilots in space, and many others. Lines show the jump gate connections between stars, with the path from your current location to the selected system shown as dotted. | Map Beta is three-dimensional. Stars are shown as colored dots - the shades of which can be changed to represent different sorts of data: security status, services, sovereignity, number of pilots in space, and many others. Lines show the jump gate connections between stars, with the path from your current location to the selected system shown as dotted. | ||
When you open the map, it will be centered on a | When you open the map, it will be centered on a {{color|yellow|Selected System<}}. This is most often the system where you are currently located. You can use your mouse wheel to zoom in until you see the system in great detail ... planets, moons, stations, asteroid belts, etc. Or, you can zoom out until you see the entire universe. | ||
Three buttons at the top right of the map control window activities. | |||
*Clicking on the X will {{color|red|Close}} the Map Beta window. | |||
*Clicking on the magnifying glass icon will open the {{color|red|Search}} box. As you begin to type in the box, the search will give you a list of matching star systems. Click on a star name to focus the map on that system and draw a dotted line to there from your current position. If you click on a moon or other object, that object will be focused in the center of the map, and the map will zoom in to show the star system in detail.) | |||
*Clicking on the little square with the dot in the middle will open the {{color|red|Resize}} option box. Here you set the map window to full screen mode, dock it to either side of your screen, or tell it to float in the middle of your screen. The docked windows can be resized left or right ... the floating window can be resized in any direction. | |||
== Using the Map Beta Controls == | == Using the Map Beta Controls == | ||