EXECUTIONABLE FILE: SOAKPIT.EXE

AUTHOR: Robin Hollands (r.hollands@sheffield.ac.uk)

DESCRIPTION: A simulation of a steel soaking pit plant. In this industrial
process, steel ingots arrive on two sorts of railway waggon. Once at the
plant, a crane unloads the ingots, one by one, into the first available
furnace (soaking pit). When the entire batch of ingots has been placed in a
furnace, the temperature is increased until it reaches a target value. The
heat takes longer to soak through the ingots, and once they have reached the
correct temperature, and the rolling mill is free, they will be removed one by
one by a free crane and taken to the rolling mill, where they are rolled into
a flat sheet.

REQUIRED: 386 or 486 PC with VGA card. Mouse or Cyberman recommended.

CONTROLS: Mouse or Cyberman will be recognised automatically; cyberman has
preference.
   Keyboard:	'4' : Rotate left
		'6' : Rotate right
		'8' : Look up
		'2' : Look down
		'+' : Move forward
		'-' : Move backwards
		'*' : Double movement speed
		'/' : Half movement speed
		's' : Returns to saved position and speed
		'p' : Exports the current screen to a PCX file
		'f' : Flips mouse mode between movement and cursor
		'q' : Quits the program and returns to text mode

   Mouse:   In movement mode:
   		Mouse forward : Look up
		Mouse backwards : Look down
		Mouse left : Rotate left
		Mouse right : Rotate right
		Left button : Move forward
		Right button : Move backwards
		Left and Right button : shuffle in direction of mouse
					movement (eg. left/right or up/down)
		Centre button (if fitted) : Flips mouse mode to cursor

	    In cursor mode :
		Move cursor to object of interest and press left button to
	    	select. Press centre button to flip mouse mode back to
	    	movement.

   Cyberman:In movement mode:
		Moving the Cyberman in any of the 6 DOF (except roll) results
   		in corresponding viewpoint movement. Movement
   		forwards/backwards and left/right is proportional to Cyberman
   		displacement from centre. Press centre button to flip to mouse
   		cursor mode.

NOTES: Program developed as part of a PhD to investigate the incorporation of
new technologies into mixed-mode industrial simulation.

Click the cursor on a closed pit lid to open it and look inside. Click on an
open lid to close it. The level bar on the side of each pit indicates current
pit temperature. The colour of the ingots get brighter as they get hotter. For
more precise information click the cursor on a pit to get a text window
showing exact temperatures. Click again to remove window. Multiple pit text
windows are displayed according to the distance the pit is from the viewpoint,
ie. closer pit windows are on top.

The clock on the far wall (near the rolling mill) shows elapsed simulated time
since the start. Click the cursor on the clock to also get a digital readout.
The simulated time can be made to run faster or slower by pressing '>' and '<'
repectively.