I need help in The Dig, very early on in the game(contains spoilers)

[Gemmalah]

Well, i'm stuck, very stuck... wondering round for hours stuck...

anyway, i'm on the alien planet I have all items i can find to pick up in the space ship, and underground bit, and i have dug up the grave and fund the bracelet.

I consulted (several) walkthroughs and it says to look over the edge of the dirt ramp and find a lens. but the only hotspot i can find is the hole i found the bracelet in. I can see no way of telling the charactor to look over the edge. I have looked in the overhead map and close up of the dirt ramp.

Also the walkthrough says you need to find a control panel, does this appear after you find the lens and do something with it, or is it something else i can't find?

thanks alot everyone gemmalah

[GarageGothic]

Hmm, either the walkthroughs are wrong, or you've misread them. It's not the dirt ramp above ground, but rather the ramp below ground, which leads to the "reactor chamber". Check out that you haven't missed an exit in the below-ground area. Possibly at the bottom of the screen.

Edit: By the way, this should have been posted in the hints forum.

[Meowster]

EDIT: Wait, damn, you already solved this part. Hm, okay. Never mind.

If you get stuck again, I suggest throwing down your keyboard, putting your hands over your head and running aimlessly away from your computer, while screaming as loud as you can.

[Gemmalah]

Ive got to the underground cave! if thats what you mean do i have to do something to the ramp the dead body is under?

Oh sometimes walkthroughs ask to look at the scenery around the exit of the dark tunnel nearest the airlock, i cannot find a hotspot there either. maybe a fault in the game, has anyone competed it?

is it the ramp near the airlock? cos there are no hotspots there. all other exits require the lens to open it, like the doors.

is there a room i havn't seen by walking off of the screen downwards while in the nexus.
:'( :'( :'(

[GarageGothic]

I don't have the game right here, so I can't tell for certain, but as I remember it, the exit to the reactor room with the lens is opposite from the exit that leads to the airlock (When you're in the first underground room with all the locked doors). Go to the circular hole in the wall, which leads to the tunnel with the airlock at its end, and try clicking at the bottom of the screen, directly below that. Possibly the room scrolls just a bit vertically, so you might have to walk there before the cursor lights up.

Edit: No, it's not the ramp you came down from, it's a ramp carved in the floor of the room, leading from the airlock tunnel, across the room.

is there a room i havn't seen by walking off of the screen downwards while in the nexus.

If the nexus is the room with all the locked doors, yes, that's it.