To select all parts of the same type (similar to the 'magic wand' tool in many paint programs), hold Ctrl while clicking.

(You must already have the ship selected.) Then press 0 through 9 to select that control group at any later point in time. Select the parts you want to group (hold Ctrl+ Shift and click on each part) and then press Ctrl+ 0 through 9 to create a control group. Individual ship weapons and other parts can also be put into their own control to make it easier to turn them on and off or toggle their hold-fire modes. In multiplayer, your ships will be automatically assigned control groups F1 through F5. In the Bounty Hunter mode, your first eight ships will be automatically put in control groups F1 through F8. Then press F1 through F8 to select that control group at any later point in time. Select the ships you want to group together and then press Ctrl+ F1 through F8 to create a control group of those ships. Ships can be grouped into 'control groups' to make them easy to select using hotkeys. To select all parts of the currently-selected ships, press Ctrl+ Shift+ A. Triple-clicking selects all parts of the same type regardless of orientation. Holding Shift while doing so or dragging a box allows you to select multiple parts.Дouble-clicking selects all parts of the same type and (in the case of weapons and thrusters) orientation. You can clear that memory by clicking the Reset Attack Defaults option in the ship's pop-out menu. When ordering a ship to attack another ship at a specific distance and/or angle, that distance/angle will be remember the next time you issue an attack command. The direction which will be treated as 'forward' for the purposes of flying long distances can be customized by clicking the desired direction arrow in the ship designer, or within the pop-out menu to the right of the ship's name. When the 'picture-in-picture' is showing an enemy ship, you can right-click in it to focus-fire on a specific enemy part. However, you can turn this behavior on by enabling the Allow Ship Deselection setting. To select all ships under your command, press Ctrl+ A.Д«y default, you can't left-click in empty space to deselect the currently-selected ship(s).

Turning on the Prefer Ship-Relative Attack Angles and Prefer Grid-Relative Follow Angles settings will invert this behavior. Right-click-dragging to follow a friendly ship works similarly, except that the angle is fixed to the friendly ship by default. This can be useful when you want your own ship to always try to attack a specific side of the enemy. If you hold the Ctrl key while right-click-dragging, then the angle will be fixed to the enemy and thus will rotate as the enemy rotates. You can also customize if/when it appears in the settings.Д«y default, when you right-click-and-drag on an enemy ship to pick a specific angle, the angle will be 'fixed' to the background grid and not rotate as the enemy rotates.

The 'picture-in-picture' view that displays in the upper-right corner can be resized by hovering the mouse over and and dragging the little resizer that appears in its bottom-left corner. To focus the camera on any ship in the game, you can either middle-click on it or left-click while holding the Alt key. Ctrl+ Alt+ F will also lock the camera's rotation to match the enemy's rotation. Pressing Ctrl+ F will focus the camera on the currently-targeted enemy ship. Pressing Alt+ F will focus the camera on your ship and lock the camera's rotation to match the ship's rotation. Press the Tab key to reset the camera back to its default rotation. You can rotate the camera using the keys. Press Ctrl+ Shift+ U to toggle the in-game HUD off and on. You can take a screenshot at any time by pressing Ctrl+ Alt+ C.

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