Om doorheen muren en andere objecten te kunnen lopen gebruik je de SHIFT-toets + de pijltjestoetsen. Dit is handig wanneer je vast komt te zitten met je avatar, zonder dat je moet gaan teleporteren naar een andere locatie. Het is niet in alle werelden mogelijk om doorheenobjecten te lopen. (Wereldinstellingen , bv. in een doolhof spel zal dit niet mogelijk zijn)

Om op ne neer te gaan met je avatar , moet je eveneens eerst klikken in de wereld (bv. op de grond ,dus vermijden dat je gaat typen in het chat-scherm) en daarna druk je op de + toets om te stijgen of op de - toets om te dalen . . Het is niet in alle werelden mogelijk om met je avatar te vliegen. (Wereldinstellingen)

Indien je een laptop hebt zonder numeriek klavier, dan moet je andere toetsen gebruiken om te vliegen, dan moet je de FN-toets intikken in combinatie met de P-toets of de ; toets.. Ofwel kun je uw eigen toetscombinatie gaan instellingen, hiervoor ga je in het menu naar : opties - configure controls.

Eerst zorg je ervoor dat je avatar naar boven gaat met de + toets. Dan druk je op de pijltjestoets "naar voor" ofwel druk je op één van de zijwaartse pijltjestoetsen en je zal rondvliegen, totdat je avatar terug op de grond terecht komt.

Let er eerst op , dat je in de scherm van de wereld klikt, want indien je het chat-scherm geselecteerd hebt, zal er niets gebeuren. Klik nu op de PAGE UP of PAGE DOWN toets, waarmee je avatar naar boven of naar beneden gaat kijken . Je kunt ook de ikoontjes op de toolbar gebruiken (deze verschijnen op de toolbar als je CTRL + F2 indrukt)

Met de END-toest kun je de camerapositie van je avatar wijzigen , er zijn 4 cameraposities en zie je de wereld vanuit een andere gezichtshoek, na de 4e klik op de END-toets kom je terug op de normale camerapositie terecht (first person). Met de * en de / kun je het zicht op je avatar dichter of verderbrengen.

You can also chat in whisper mode (chat with 1 person). Type F8 to open or close the whisper chat line. The whisper text will appear in blue. In some worlds it is not possible to whisper.

In every world you can choose between 2 or more chat channels : local chat, global chat, etc. When you are in a world at a distance of more than 200 meter (20cells) from another visitor, then you will loose contact with that person : His/her name will also disappear in the chatbox. This chat contact problem can be solved by selecting global chat or by using a global chat bot : e.g. Hermesbot .

Go to the menu : avatar and choose custom avatar or click upon the t-shirt-icon in the toolbar or you can type CTRL + F6. Then you will have 2 screens: the right screen with the options, the left screen with the result. And you will see that your avatar changed into a naked grey avatar. Now you can start to choose the options in the right screen: hair color, clothes,skin, height ,etc. In the little squares , you can choose a colour. When you have finished making your avatar, you go at the top of the right screen : Save Preset , then you choose a filename and this avatar is saved on your computer. Then you click upon Apply, and you will see your own CAV in the world, instead of the naked grey avatar. When you return to Activeworlds, then you open again those screens with CTRL + F6 , and choose Load Preset. Here you will see again the filename of the CAV you had saved before, and you can select it and then choose Apply, so that you have the same avatar again. You can also make several avatars, each time you choose Save Preset and give each CAV a different filename. Then go again to Load Preset, where you see the list of all the CAVs that you have created. (click upon the pictures to enlarge:)

By using a teleport, you avatar enters directly in another world by using the tabs screen , press F9 to make this screen appear or disappear. Once you have the tabscreen, select the tabsheet Worlds. Here you see a list of the worlds with the number of visitors in it.Now double-click on name of the world of your choice. Worlds with a grey symbol are closed, but you might find people in those worlds: world owners and citizens helping to prepare the world for its grand opening, when the grey symbol changes into a coloured symbol.. (= world settings : Only the citizens with permission of the world owner can enter the world with a grey symbol).

If you have found a beautiful location that you want to visit again, then go to the menu bar and choose : Teleport - Remember. You can add a description to this teleport location so that you know what you can see there. Now press F9 (tabscreen) and choose the tabsheet Teleports , where you will find your new teleport location.Double-click on the teleport description to teleport to that location.Note : these teleports are stored on your computer only, if you log in on another computer, then you won't see the teleports that you have saved.

If you press the F7 key in the world Venice-Venezia, then there will appear a website : venic3d.net . When you teleport to another world, than you will probably see another webpage when you press F7 : this depends on the world settings. Also the activate url-command can be used on any object, in order to view a webpage, mostly this is announced on a sign object or picture object.

Some objects contain action commands which create noises, sounds or music. Those sound files can be files of the world itself (where also the objects are stored) or they can be url links from webpages. you can hear midi files =(songs converted into beep tunes) or listen to links from music websites or internet radio stations.

We already told that movers can activate avatar gestures, if there is a sequence command added upon that mover. There are 3 types of movers : User controlled mover: when you click upon this object, you will be able to drive yourself with that mover: a car, bus, motorbike, boat, plane,.. Server controlled mover: when you click upon this object, the mover will guide you to a destination as created by the builder of this mover. Pickup item-mover: when you click upon this mover object, your avatar will pick up and wear or hold this mover : an apple, a sword, a gun, a hat, ...

Rotate the object can be done by pressing : PAGEUP , PAGEDOWN, HOME , END , * and / keys

Teleport buttons : the house represents the home teleport (in the menu, you can setup your own home teleport). The arrows will teleport you back or forward , if you have already teleported during this 3dchat session.

Brings your avatar into another camera position (= same as pressing the END and/or HOME key)

The t-shirt icon will open the CAV-window , to make your custom avatar. ( = same as CTRL + F6). The balloon icon wil open the voice chat tabsheet ( = same as using F9)

With the camera-icon you can make screenshot pictures. The map icon will open the presentation window. The car icon is used to detach movers, which means to end navigating with a mover or wearing/holding a mover ( = same as F12)

The internet-explorer icon will show the last active webpage during this 3dchat session ( = same as using F7). The questionmark icon will show the AW version and your citizennumber.

The gestures menu shows a list of sequence moves that you can apply upon your avatar. The sequence files are stored in a seperate map on the object path of the world. The menu of sequences is different in every world, depending on the setup menu made by the world owner.

Each time when you close down the Activeworlds session, you will reenter Activeworls at the universe entry point, unless you choose "Remember location on exit". This location will stored each time into the aw.ini file when you close down the AW session. You can undo this again , by deleted this again in the ini file.