Point · Which? · it acts
Element 88
Show it the thing that matters.
click a destination · point the model at this
First known
Opened
1987Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm Games): choose 'Walk to', point where the kid should go and click, and the kid walks there.
See also: Dune II (Westwood), Dec 1992: click a destination and the unit routes itself.
“Then move your cursor into the Animation Window, point it where you want the character to go, and click.”
The manual shows the pointing. That the kid finds the way round the furniture is visible in the game, not written in the manual.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 88 — operate freely
Tap the messes that matter. Then keep your hands off and watch.
Fig. 88 — Point out
000 readings · idle
Down the Point column
- it followsPoPoint
- it targetsPkPick
- it remembersSeSelect
- it connectsMeMention
- it guessesThThat
- it actsPuPoint out
Read down and Point gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Point out takes.
- click a destination
- point the model at this
From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Point out, and its old address lands here.
- Attention SteeringRenamedThe same act, under a name that says what it does.