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Turning on Inertia in Virtual Earth 3D

So the other day I was following an email thread on a discussion forum for Virtual Earth internally here at Microsoft and someone says, "if only VE clients had “inertia” like Google Earth..." and someone writes back. "Inertia is there, it's just turned off by default" WHA??? How'd that get in there? I wasn't alone in my surprise it seems as others as well didn't know that either. So I guess we snuck it in there. Anyway, if you want to turn it on here's how you do it.

Open up Virtual Earth and turn on 3D mode.

Then click on the Options button. This thing -> clip_image002

Next click on 3D settings.

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Then click on the Preferences tab and then click on the checkbox in the Mouse preferences section.

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And THAT'S IT. Have fun flying around in 3D with Inertia.

Published Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:27 PM by mjbrown
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Monday, May 12, 2008 5:43 AM by jamiet

# re: Turning on Inertia in Virtual Earth 3D

Hi Mark,

For those that have never used Google Earth could you record a couple of "before and after" videos showing exactly the dffierence this setting makes?

Thanks

Jamie

Monday, May 12, 2008 7:10 AM by SoulSolutions

# re: Turning on Inertia in Virtual Earth 3D

Mark,

So have you found how to get 3D to zoom into the mouse cursor postion rather then the centre of the map?

It does this in 2D, which is I think is better, but not in 3D. Funny as I thought it did this in 3D at some stage.

Marks it very hard to do a smooth zoom into a specific location.

John.

Friday, May 16, 2008 5:22 PM by Mark Brown

# re: Turning on Inertia in Virtual Earth 3D

@jamiet, sure I can do this.

@SoulSolutions. I'm not sure why but I can check into that.

Friday, May 16, 2008 8:42 PM by mjbrown

# re: Turning on Inertia in Virtual Earth 3D

@ jamiet - actually after thinking about this I'm not a video is required to explain this.

In short, with intertia on the map continues to move after you start moving in one direction or another. The experience is the same whether in Google Earth or Virtual Earth. Check it out. It's easy to see once you flip the checkbox on and off.

@SoulSolutions - I think that is simply the way the control is programmed. I will get in touch with the team and give them your feedback.

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