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# Status Bar

> You've arrived at The Status Bar. Congratulations, have a drink on the house, look around, be looked at. You've made it!

> OK, so it's not that kind of bar (although Hack "The Fluffer" Mulligan claims there's one so named at a course in Bali). At this Status Bar the only thing they serve is information. It's located in the bottom-left corner of your screen.

> Belly up and a wealth of valuable information awaits you, on the house!

- When you click on one of the tool buttons, the name of that particular tool will appear in the Status Bar, along with a brief explanation of what that tool does. The name of the tool set, if any, will appear in parentheses to the right.

- When you highlight a menu choice, a brief description of its function will appear in the Status Bar.
- When you click somewhere in the Top View or the Camera View, the Status Bar displays the type of terrain and the coordinates at that spot.

> The x and y coordinates are measured from the lower left-hand corner of the Top View; x is the distance along the horizontal axis, and y is the distance along the vertical axis. The z coordinate represents the altitude above the course's defined zero level.

> When you move the cursor over one of the camera handles in the Top View, the Status Bar will show you the coordinates of the camera's location and its current view angle.

> The x and y coordinates are measured from the lower left-hand corner of the Top View; x is the distance along the horizontal axis, and y is the distance along the vertical axis. The z coordinate represents the camera's altitude above ground level. The view angle is the width of the camera's field of view, measured in degrees at the vertex of the triangle.