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
- Ctrl‐Left: Rewind 20 seconds;
- Ctrl‐Right: Fast-forward 20 seconds;
- Alt‐Left: Rewind to beginning;
- Alt‐Right: Fast-forward to end;
- Shift‐B: Rewind one second;
- Shift‐F: 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;
- Shift‐Arrow: (perspective, flat) Move camera;
- A: (perspective, flat) Zoom in;
- Z, Y: (perspective, flat) Zoom out;
Reference
- Keys:
- Enter from VCR selection for FLAK fight