From the course: Unreal Engine 5 Essential Training

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Navigation

Navigation in Unreal is pretty straightforward, and if you've ever used a PC video game or a content creation tool like Maya, you should get the hang of it pretty quickly. So let's take a look at the game navigation tools in Unreal first. So it's basically requires a three-button mouse. If you hold down the left-click and drag, you can go forward and back by moving the mouse up and down or left and right. Now if you want to, you can also hold down the middle-click. So if you let up on left-click and middle-click, you'll see that you can pan the scene. So basically, I'm just moving the camera left, right, up, and down. Right-click by itself will rotate the view so you can look up, or down, and so on. Now another way to navigate is to use the Maya-like tool. So I'm going to actually go ahead and click on this floor here and just hit the letter "F" for frame. And what that will do is it will frame the scene. Now if I click off of this, I can navigate using the Maya tools. So if I hold…

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