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About Entels

The word "entel" is short for entourage element. An entel can take many forms: person, dog, tree, car, or a custom model which you provide. The entel can be stationary or animated.

Animation may help to visualize the terrain. It is not meant to be of high quality, by any means, nor realistic. Any entel can move in the sense of travelling along. In addition, the built-in models for person, dog, and car are programmed to move relative to themselves. That means arms, legs, and tails moving, and wheels turning.

An entel has various parameters which can be changed in the Info Panel. The same parameters can be changed for one or more entels simultaneously in the Edit Entels... dialog.

An entel is animated only if its own "Animated" checkbox has a checkmark in it, and there is a checkmark next to the Animated item in the Doc menu.

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