Tutorial - URL Hotspots

This tutorial shows how to make clicking a hotspot in the movie take the user to a web page.

Step 1

Start by defining a hotspot over the area where you want the URL to trigger. (If you need a detailed explanation on how to define hotspots, see the "Gazebo Walk" tutorial.)

Step 2

Go to the Connections area and select the hotspot you just defined from the Hotspots popup menu.

It should rotate into view.

We can now connect the hotspot to a URL.

Step 3

Choose the very last item in the Destination popup menu: "URL..."

Step 4

Instead of a node movie which you would normally see when selecting an item from the Destination popup menu, a stylized "internet world" appears.

Below the world, you can type a URL. (Then press RETURN to lock it in.)

(Disclaimer: Click Here Design has no affiliation with Northwest Playground Equipment Inc or Playworld Systems. In fact, until we Googled to them 5 mins ago we hadn't heard of either. Sure looks fun though!)

Step 5

Now click the "Export Single Movies..." button to save the movie with its URL hotspot to disk.

As you probably intend to embed the movie in a web page, you may want to first choose an HTML template such as "Movies + Basic HTML Template". Then click "Save".

(Note: single-nodes movies (or movie if you are just placing a hotspot on a single node) are saved into a folder. This keeps the ".mov" and ".html" files together.)

This ends the tutorial.

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