Field guide
Make a little chaos.
Everything begins with a drag. Pull back, aim, and let gravity take it from there.
- drag
- Fling a body — pull back to aim, drag farther for more speed
- click
- Select a body; click empty space to deselect
- right-drag
- Pan the view (middle-drag works too)
- scroll
- Zoom at the cursor
- Space
- Pause / resume
- 1–6
- Pick a brush: asteroid, comet, planet, gas giant, star, black hole
- R
- Reset the current scene
- F
- Cycle camera follow mode
- T
- Toggle trails
- O
- Toggle the orbit track — the selected body's osculating orbit
- V
- Toggle velocity / acceleration vectors
- Z / X
- Zoom out / in
- H
- Home view — re-center the scene
- C
- Zen mode — hide the controls and let the camera wander
- P
- Save a snapshot of the current view as a PNG
- M
- Mute / unmute
- Del
- Delete the selected body
- Esc
- Cancel a launch mid-drag · deselect · close overlays
- Shift+V
- Run the physics self-test
- ?
- Show or hide this panel