NAME¶
loch — Therion model viewer
SYNOPSIS¶
loch
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents
loch, which is part of the therion-viewer
package.
loch is a 3D viewer which displays .lox files produced by therion and
allows them to be examined.
OPTIONS¶
loch takes no options.
BASIC CONTROL¶
Key and Mouse Controls
Function |
Mouse action |
Key |
Zoom & Rotate |
Left click + drag |
|
Zoom only |
Left click + drag up/down, then hold left and click right |
Ctrl + Up/Down |
Rotate only |
Left click + drag left/right, then hold left and click right |
Left/Right |
Pan |
Right click + drag |
Shift + Arrows |
Tilt |
Middle (wheel) click + drag or wheel rotate |
Up/Down |
Full screen |
Left double click F11 |
|
Context menu |
Right click |
|
If continuous rotation is turned on, then rotation mouse movements change the
speed or direction of rotation. If rotation is locked, then rotation mouse
movements have no effect.
OFF SCREEN RENDERING¶
Loch is able to render large bitmaps that can be afterwards post processed and
printed. Bitmaps can be exported in PDF, PNG or BMP formats. Configuration of
export is done via the Rendering setup dialog. You can set the following
features:
Size and Scaling
Screen shot: Screen copy will be saved into a file with no other changes.
Image width: The screen image will be exported with the specified width.
Image height: The screen image will be exported with the specified height.
Scale: The screen image will be exported with the specified scale.
Image options
Rendering resolution: Resolution of the image file used when image size or scale
are specified.
Image size: Image size in pixels and uncompressed bytes calculated from previous
settings.
White background: Force white background in exported image.
KNOWN BUGS¶
Sometimes empty rectangles appear in off screen rendered file. Changing the
window size usually helps.
* Crashes have been observed on intel graphics cards unless the
texture initialisations are removed in the code.
* Stereo mode does not work correctly on some graphics adapters.
* This help does not work.
SEE ALSO¶
therion (1), xtherion (1).
For full information see the Therion Manual in /usr/doc/therion/thbook which
describes therion-viewer and its use in detail.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was adapted from existing docs by Wookey wookey@debian.org for
the
Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation.