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How to Get Started

Step 1: Install Daxs

  • Open Rhino
  • launch the Package Manager via "_Packagemanager" command inside the Rhino commandline.
  • Search for "Daxs", install the plugin
  • Restart Rhino once the installation is complete.

Alternative:

Step 2: Connect your gamepad

  • First, make sure your gamepad is already connected to your PC. You can check this in your Bluetooth & devices settings in Windows if you are using a wireless controller.

Step 3: Start navigating

  • After starting Rhino, turn on your gamepad.
  • That should be enough to get control of the currently selected viewport.

In some cases, especially right after Rhino starts, you may need to click once into the viewport with your mouse before controller navigation becomes active.

After that, it should work normally.

And that is it.

Documentation

Toolbar

Daxs Toolbar

Daxs Start/Stop Start/Stop Daxs Runtime

Starts or stops the Daxs Runtime. The default is, that Daxs is running automatically after a Rhino Instance started.
You can turn this off inside the Daxs Settings -> Settings -> General -> [ ] Autostart

Daxs Settings Daxs Settings

Daxs Toolbar
Global Settings for the Daxs Plugin.

Input

Input Response

Name Description
YawSensitivity
PitchSensitivity
InvertY-axis
Deadzone
FlySpeed
WalkSpeed
ElevateSpeed
FlySpeedFactor
WalkSpeedFactor

Input Layout

comming soon...

Settings

General

HUD

WalkMode

Lens+-

Custom

comming soon...

About

About the Autor and Licence of the Daxs plugin

Daxs Fly Mode Daxs Fly Mode

Daxs Fly Mode

Fly through your model

Daxs Walk Mode Daxs Walk Mode

Daxs Flywalk Mode

Walk through your model, or a plane - depending if a navigation mesh is selected. (first-person view)

Daxs SetNavigationMesh Daxs SetNavigationMesh

Set a Navigation Mesh for the Walk Mode. CAUTION Pick a mesh with a low vertice count - A Rule of thumb is less then 10.000 vertices. Once picked, a reference guid is saved inside the Rhino file.

Change Log

Go to Change Log

Performance

Please note that Rhino, while moving the viewport, reduces the render quality in render mode. Daxs **can not do that (right now). So your GPU need to work more.

Minimum requirements to run Daxs smoothly in render mode should be around a GeForce 2060 - depending of course the complexity of the model, the choice of render materials and your screen/viewport resolution.

Please try to minimize the size of the navigation mesh as much as possible. As a rule of thumb it should have under 10000 vertices. Think about that the plugin does multiple times each second a mesh-ray intersection.

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