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  • Sansar Basics
    • Installation And Compatibility
      • Installing Sansar
      • System Requirements
      • Sansar Compatibility FAQ
      • Sansar on Mac
      • Body Tracking Vive
      • Configuring Firewalls
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      • Avatar Name and ID
      • Adding Payment Method
      • Discord FAQ
      • Steam Integration
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    • Controls
      • Avatar Hand Gestures in VR
      • FreeCam and CineCam
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      • Keyboard Shortcuts for Editing a Scene
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  • Exploring in Sansar
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    • Avatar Basics
      • Avatar 2.0 FAQ
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      • Importing Avatar-Related Items
      • Editing an inventory item's name
      • Editing an inventory item's image
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      • Importing a custom emote animation
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      • Avatar Reference Files
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  • Creating In Sansar
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      • Supported file types
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        • VAT Shader Basics
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      • Displacement Guides
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    • Marvelous Designer Info
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      • MD Limitations
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      • Creating Quests
      • Diagnostics Toolbar
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      • My Worlds Panel
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      • Deleting an experience or scene
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      • Editing a scene
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      • Moderation Tools for World Owners
      • Publishing Options for Your Experiences
      • Renaming a scene
      • Saving and Building A Scene
      • Sharing Your Experiences
      • Visiting your own experience
    • Part Of The World Editor
      • Object Stats Toolbar
      • Object Components
      • Parenting objects
      • Scene Item Inventory
      • Scene Objects Panel
      • Collision Volumes
      • Scene Settings
      • System objects
      • Object Motion Types
    • Working With Scripts
      • Working With Scripts
      • Working With Trigger Volume
      • Referencing Scene Components
      • Intro to Scripting in Sansar
      • Using the Script Console
      • Setting Script Parameters
      • Adding Scripts to an Object
      • Configuring Teleport Scripts
      • Simple Script User Guide
    • Working With Audio and Video
      • Working With Audio
      • Creating Media surface
      • Streaming Web Audio
      • Audio Emitter
      • Sansar Audio FAQ
      • Using Media Streams
      • Ambisonic Sounds
      • High Quality Spacial Audio
      • Audio Resource - Room Tones
      • Previewing Audio and Video in a Scene
      • Using Audio Materials
    • Working With Lights
      • Working With Lights
      • Light Types
      • Global Illumination
  • Sansar Store
    • Using the Sansar Store
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      • Gifting Sansar Dollars
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      • Converting Sansar Dollars
      • Processing US Dollar Credit
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  • Script API Docs
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    • Example Scripts
      • Example Scripts in Sansar
      • Cannonball
      • Follow The Path
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      • Reflective Detector
      • Simple Script
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      • Stats Example
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      • SessionID
      • Simple Script Event Data
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      • Timer
      • Tooltip Attribute
    • MetaData Namespace
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    • Sansar Script Testing Namespace
      • Assertion Failure Exception
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    • Sansar Utility Namespace
      • GenericEnumerable <T>
      • GenericEnumerable<T>.GetItem
      • JSON Serialization Data
      • JSON Serialization Data 1
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    • Sansar Simulation Namespace
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      • Sit Event Type
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      • Stream Channel
      • Tutorial Hint
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  • Edit mode camera controls
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  • Moving Objects
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  1. Sansar Basics
  2. Controls

Keyboard Shortcuts for Editing a Scene

The controls in this article are specific to editing a scene with a mouse and keyboard. For additional controls available while visiting an experience, see Keyboard shortcuts (visiting an experience).

To see available controls using other controllers, see Sansar controls.

Edit mode camera controls

Use these controls when editing a scene in desktop mode:

  • Arrow keys: Move the camera forward, backward, left, and right.

  • W,A,S,D: Move the camera forward, backward, left, and right.

  • E,C: Move the camera up and and down.

  • I,J,K,L: Rotates the camera, If a object is 'Focused' orbits the object.

  • NUMPAD+ and NUMPAD- : Increase and decrease camera speed.

  • Hold left click and drag: Move the camera left and right.

  • Hold right click and drag: Rotate the camera up, down, left, and right.

  • F key : Focus to a selected object, camera rotation will orbit selection.

  • ScrollWheel Zooms in and out of a selected or 'focused' object

Action buttons

Use these controls when editing objects placed in a scene:

Selecting objects

  • Left Click: Select an object or expose the translate tools to move the object.

  • Shift Left/Right Click Clicking one object after another selects multiple objects while shift is held.

  • Right Click Opens the objects options menu, Will also select if nothing is selected.

  • Double Left Click Opens the properties menu of a object.

  • Shift Left Click and drag: Box Select Multiple Objects.

Moving Objects

  • Hold CTRL while an object is selected: Changes the translate tool to rotate.

  • Hold CTRL + SHIFT while an object is selected: Changes the translate tool to scale.

  • CTRL + Z : Undo last action.

  • CTRL + Y : Redo last Undo.

  • CTRL + D : Duplicates selected objects.

  • Delete or Backspace button: Deletes selected objects.

Note: If multiple objects are selected movement controls will be located at a center of all selected objects origins.

Other Hotkeys

  • CTRL + L key: Move Lock, Stops a object from being moved

  • ALT + L : Edit Lock, Disables all options in the properties menu of the object except movement ones.

  • CTRL + P : Opens the Properties menu of a selected object.

  • CTRL + M : Opens the Materials Window of a selected Object.

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