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title: "Navigation - Avatar Viewer"
slug: "command-control-layout"
updated: 2024-07-12T15:28:17Z
published: 2024-07-12T15:28:17Z
canonical: "support.beast-code.com/command-control-layout"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.beast-code.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Navigation - Avatar Viewer

To open a visual guide to all of the controls used in Avatar Viewer, select the **?** icon. This will open the Command Control Layout - an interactive visual of controls along with their definitions.

![Help](https://cdn.document360.io/820c65d9-cf4e-4289-9237-5bc834b3bd3e/Images/Documentation/Help.gif)

## Controls

**Avatar Viewer** uses the same control scheme as first-person videogames:

- **W** - move forward
- **A** - Strafe (sidestep) left
- **S** - move backwards
- **D** - strafe (sidestep) right
- **Mouse movement** - look around, change direction
- **ESC -** disengage the mouse movement, allows mouse selection

![WASD](https://cdn.document360.io/820c65d9-cf4e-4289-9237-5bc834b3bd3e/Images/Documentation/WASD.gif)

**Hatches/doors** can be opened/closed by clicking on them. **Green** indicates the entrance is **open**, and **red** for **closed**.

![Door](https://cdn.document360.io/820c65d9-cf4e-4289-9237-5bc834b3bd3e/Images/Documentation/Door.gif)

**Ladders** can be used with the following controls:

- **C** - climb down
- **E** - climb up
- **Right click** - select a Component

Places you inside the workspace. You are constrained by the physical limitations of the workspace.

An interactive visual of controls along with their definitions.

Sidestep left or right using the A or D key, respectively.

A specific and defined piece of equipment or part within a system or a space.