This is the FLAK player. FLAK has three display modes:

  • Isometric 3-D. Shows the battle at a 45 degree angle with no perspective;
  • Perspective 3-D. Shows the battle from a freely-moving camera with proper perspective;
  • Flat view. Shows the a flat view onto the battle from the top. Since FLAK is just two-dimensional internally, this is what the combat engine actually does.

Most of the screen is covered by the playback arena. On the right, you see a list of all participating fleets; Space expands a fleet into a list of units.

Each ship/fleet is shown as a circle; if proper images are available, FLAK can also use ship images. Fighters are small blue circles. Torpedoes are red crosses.

During playback, use the following keys:

  • Right: Start/pause playback;
  • Up, Down: Scroll in ship list
  • CtrlLeft: Rewind 20 seconds;
  • CtrlRight: Fast-forward 20 seconds;
  • AltLeft: Rewind to beginning;
  • AltRight: Fast-forward to end;
  • ShiftB: Rewind one second;
  • ShiftF: Forward one second;
  • Tab: Toggle display modes;
  • 3: Toggle perspective 3-D mode;
  • 1, 2: Show status of currently-selected ship on left/right info panel;
  • F: (perspective mode) Camera follows current fleet;
  • C: (perspective mode) Toggle automatic camera;
  • ShiftArrow: (perspective, flat) Move camera;
  • A: (perspective, flat) Zoom in;
  • Z, Y: (perspective, flat) Zoom out;

Reference

Keys:
Enter from VCR selection for FLAK fight
This is a testing version.
It may be incomplete, and have more bugs (or features) than the public live version at planetscentral.com.