Keyboard and Mouse Controls

This page gives all keys and mouse actions of the game. Hold Tab in a session to see the keys of the current vehicle and implement on the screen.

Tip

For the first 12 s of a session, the HUD shows the most important keys in a box at the top left. The box has the title Controls for the Maxxum and Polaris Ranger for the Polaris.

Drive a Vehicle

These keys operate the two vehicles.

Key	Function
W	Throttle.
S or Space	Brake.
A, D	Steer to the left, steer to the right.
R	Put the vehicle back to its start pose.
1 to 6	Drive on one surface everywhere: asphalt, concrete, gravel, dry soil, wet soil, mud.
0	Drive on the surfaces of the map again.
F2	Go to the next vehicle of a session with several vehicles. The keyboard, the camera and the HUD follow.
F12	Save a screenshot.
Esc	Pause a session that the menu started. Stop the game in a session that the command line started.

The Polaris Ranger

The keys move the pedals and the steering wheel toward their limits at a fixed rate on the physics clock.

Key	Function
[, ]	Move the gear lever in the sequence P, R, N, H, L. [ moves toward P.
V	Change between reverse and low range. The speed must be less than 0.3 m/s.
L	Change the drive mode: AWD, then 2WD, then Turf, then AWD again.
F3	Enable or disable the drive-by-wire system.

Caution

Do not touch W, S, A or D while a program drives the Polaris through the drive-by-wire system. Each of these keys is an override and disables the drive-by-wire commands, as a pedal does on the real vehicle.

The Maxxum 150 Tractor

Key	Function
[, ]	Select a lower or a higher gear. The tractor has 16 forward gears.
V	Change between forward and reverse. The speed must be less than 0.25 m/s.
L	Change the differential lock: open, then rear locked, then rear and front locked.
= or Num +	Increase the hand throttle by 5 %.
- or Num -	Decrease the hand throttle by 5 %.
P	Apply or release the park brake.

Note

The Maxxum starts in the gear of initial_gear in tractor.json, with the engine at idle speed. The tractor moves slowly when you hold no key. Hold S to stop it.

Operate an Implement

These keys operate the implement of the Maxxum. Each implement uses only some of them.

Key	Function
Q	Raise or lower a three-point implement. Raise or lower the pickup of the square baler.
E	Engage or disengage the PTO. The hand throttle then goes to the rated PTO speed of the implement.
F	Change the hitch mode: position, then draft, then float.
Up, Down	Make the working depth less or more. The lever moves 25 % of its travel each second.
Page Up, Page Down	Increase or decrease the draft set point by 1 kN. The range is 1 kN to 60 kN.
T	Start or stop the spray of the sprayer, or the seed meter of the seed drill.
Y	Fold or unfold the boom of the sprayer.
O	Put the implement in the transport position, or out of it.

Note

With the disc harrow in float mode, Up and Down move the roller at 6 degrees each second. A higher roller setting makes the discs go deeper.

The Front Loader with the Bale Fork

Key	Function
Up, Down	Lift or lower the loader.
Right, Left	Curl the fork up or down.
G	Grab or drop a bale.

The Backhoe

Key	Function
Up, Down	Move the boom.
Left, Right	Swing the backhoe.
Home, End	Move the dipper.
Page Up, Page Down	Move the bucket.
B	Lower or raise the stabilizers.

Implements gives the procedure for field work with each implement.

Cameras

Action	Function
Move the mouse	Turn the camera. The chase camera turns around the vehicle. The cab camera turns the view of the driver.
Turn the mouse wheel	Move the chase camera nearer or farther. The distance is 4 m to 30 m.
C	Change between the chase camera and the cab camera. The camera then goes back to its start direction.

The HUD and the Site Map

Key or Action	Function
Hold Tab	Show all keys of the vehicle and the implement.
F1	Show or hide the engineering panel.
I	Show or hide the implement card and the energy card of the Maxxum.
M	Open or close the site map and the route guide. The mouse pointer shows while the map is open.
Turn the mouse wheel on the map	Zoom the map in or out.
Hold the right mouse button on the map	Move the map.
Click a place on the map	Set the destination of the route guide. The HUD then shows the route.
Del	Clear the route.

Farm, Weather and Time

These keys operate in a session with the farm model.

Key	Function
H	Start or stop the cutter of the harvester, or the digger of the potato harvester.
J	Start or stop the rain.
K	Change the time scale of the weather and the farm between 1 and 600.
N	Plant the field again at the position of the vehicle. Stop the vehicle first.
U	Unload the bunker or the hopper. Stop the vehicle first.
F5	Save the farm state into the session folder.
F9	Load the saved farm state of the session folder. Stop the vehicle first.

Recording

Key	Function
F6	Start or stop a sensor episode. The HUD shows Recording with the time of the episode.

Collect Data gives the files of a sensor episode.

Replay

These keys operate in a replay session. Push H to show them on the screen.

Key	Function
Space or F8	Pause or continue the replay.
., ,	Go one frame forward or one frame back.
Right, Left	Jump 5 s forward or back. Hold Shift to jump 30 s.
Page Up or =	Make the replay two times faster.
Page Down or -	Make the replay two times slower.
Enter	Write a mark into the file of marks.
F4	Select the next view: chase, the field from above, the whole drive from above, the sensor camera.
F7	Hide or show the HUD.
H	Show or hide the replay keys.

The mouse and C operate the chase camera as in a normal session. Replay gives the replay procedures.

The Inspection Camera

The option -ShellView starts a free camera without a vehicle.

Key or Action	Function
W, S	Move forward or back.
A, D	Move to the left or to the right.
Q, E	Move down or up.
Hold the left Shift	Move four times faster: 18 m/s in place of 4.5 m/s.
Hold the right mouse button	Turn the camera with the mouse.
R	Put the camera back to its start position.
F12	Save a screenshot.
Esc	Stop the game.

The Menu

Key or Action	Function
Esc	Pause a session that the menu started, or continue it.
Left mouse button on the terrain brush	Paint with the selected mode: Raise, Lower, Smooth or Flatten.
Right mouse button on the terrain brush	Paint with the opposite mode: Raise becomes Lower, and Lower becomes Raise.

The terrain brush is on the tab Fields of a new simulation.