CubicConnector 2.0 Tutorials

1. Chinese Gardens Tutorial Walk

This extensive 20 minute tutorial showcases CubicConnector 2.0 by creating a fully linked virtual tour consisting of a 7-node scene showing a section of the walk through the scenic Chinese Gardens in Sydney, Australia. It covers: • importing nodes, • defining hotspots, • connecting hotspots to destination nodes, • assembling a preview, and • exporting a multinode movie to disk. View Tutorial   or   Watch Video  [5:41]

2. Selecting & Labeling Hotspots

This tutorial demonstrates two ways to select hotspots and how to label them directly from the Hotspots area instead of waiting until connecting the nodes later.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:23]
 
 

3. Defining Polygonal Hotspots

This tutorial demonstrates how to make polygonal hotspots, which differ from rectangular hotspots in that that can have more than four sides and thus follow the destination shape more precisely.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:24]
 
 

4. Adding a Map

This tutorial shows how to add a map indicating the location of the nodes and allowing the user to click markers to jump between the respective nodes.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:45]
 
 

5. Adding Sound to a Node

This tutorial demonstrates how to include sound in nodes so that it begins playing when the node is entered.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:52]
 
 
 
 

6. Switching Movie Resolutions

This tutorial demonstrates how to swap a node movie for a movie with a different resolution, without affecting its hotspots, so that a larger or smaller tour can be exported.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [1:02]
 
 

7. Setting Movie Info

This tutorial shows how to set the movie annotations that display in QuickTime Player on the viewer's computer. It also shows how to make the movie play in full-screen mode.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:45]
 
 

8. Adding Directional Sound to a Node

This tutorial demonstrates how to include sound in nodes that gets louder or softer when the user pans towards and away from a certain part of the panorama.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [1:03]
 
 

9. Adding Auto-Rotation to a Single Movie

This tutorial demonstrates how to add Auto-Rotation to a single movie.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:36]
 
 
 
 
 

Tutorials Covering Version 1.0 Features

10. QuickStart Tutorial - "Gazebo Walk"    [v1.0]

This 10 minute tutorial introduces the fundamentals by assembling a 4-node scene showing a walk into a garden gazebo. It was prepared for version 1.0 of CubicConnector, and is superceded by the Chinese Gardens Tutorial above, but is a simpler project with fewer connections if you want a more straightforward project to learn from. It covers: • importing nodes, • defining hotspots, • connecting hotspots to destination nodes, • assembling a preview, and • exporting a multinode movie to disk. View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [3:31]

11. Connecting a Hotspot to a URL    [v1.0]

This tutorial shows how to link a hotspot to a URL so that when the user clicks a hotspot in your movie they are taken to a web page.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [1:24]
 

12. Linking a hotspot to a QuickTime VR Object Movie    [v1.0]

This tutorial shows how to connect a hotspot to a QuickTime VR Object Movie and have it embedded in a multinode movie.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [1:22]
 

13. Setting Default View    [v1.0]

This brief tutorial shows how to set the default view of a node.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:11]
 
 

14. Layout Node Markers Tutorial    [v1.0]

This brief tutorial shows how to change the appearance of node markers in the Layout area, and suggests why you might do so.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [0:21]
 

15. Exporting an HTML "imagemap" based web tour    [v1.0]

This tutorial shows how to take a linked scene and export it as single nodes using a template that creates a predefined imagemap for you to start designing a web tour with.
View Tutorial  |  Watch Video  [1:01]