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Screen Tint on opening a window
Show Once Splash Screen
Coloured Hotspots for tours
How to set global security settings for flash player

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For adding bold, underline and italic as well as colour and font size you would enter: your text

You can cut and paste text in to the text fields but you may need to re enter the “ “ symbols as cut and pasting these symbols may cause text not to show.

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Wild Card:

Found something of interest in the skin for Object2VR, the wild card *.

If you had three area hotspots and wanted an element in the skin to show up, say an arrow pointing to them, you would have to make three arrows. One for each area hotspots ID, 1, 2 and 3.

In each arrow set the actions, enter show $self and leave hide $self. When you enter area hotspot 1 with your mouse the arrow with the proxy ID of 1 will show. When your mouse leaves the area the arrow will hide.

Well if you have one arrow and set it to track the mouse X and Y and give it a proxy ID of * , no matter what area hotspot you enter it will show reducing the amount of arrows needed.

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Screen Tint on opening a window:

Click the Preview button to open the example, when open click on either the information button to see the screen tint.

This cool effect is actually very easy to make, first click on the rectangle tool in the skin editor. Now draw a rectangle, any size. Now double click the rectangle and set the following:

ID: screen tint,
Position: X: 0 Y: 0. Anchor: Top Left (default)
Size: Width 5000 Height 5000px
Scaling both X and Y 1.00. Centre in the middle (default)
Visible: yes, tick. Alpha set to 0
Background: yes, tick. Colour: Black with alpha set to 60
Border set to 0. Colour not important as not using it.

All you need to do now is add the following to any button that opens an information or help box:

MouseClick, Change Element Alpha: 1 screen tint

And add in the close button for the window:

MouseClick, Change Element Alpha: 0 screen tint

If you don’t want anyone being able to use the controls make sure the screen tint rectangle is at the bottom of the tree in the skin editor. Move the controls down below it if you want the viewer to still be able to click buttons. Note, for this work correctly only use a Show Element action to open a window and a Hide Element action to close it, as the toggle action will cause problems.

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Show Once Splash Screen:

This will show a splash screen or help, information page while loading or when loaded. Once clicked the page will close and then can be opened with a button. The page will not display on any more reloads.

Step 1
Create your splash screen, copy it and label them splash 1 and 2, make sure that are directly on top of each other.

Step 2
Set splash 1 to alpha 1 and not visible.
Set splash 2 to alpha 0 and visible.

Step 3
Now in splash 2 set the following actions:

(To see the screen while loading set)
Init change alpha 1 $self.

(To see the screen after loaded)
loaded change alpha 1 $self.

Mouse click hide $self
Mouse click show splash 1
Mouse click change alpha 0 splash 1.

If your splash screen is the help or information page, you will probably want the viewer to still open and close it with a button later on.

Set the following actions to the button that will open and close the page:
Mouse click, toggle alpha, alpha: 1 target: splash 1.

What is going to happen is when Init, or loaded, splash 2 will fade in. When you close it, it will hide and be replaced with splash 1 which will fade out.

As the Init or loaded action is for page 2, which is now hidden, it will not be seen any more.
The button is now for splash 1.

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Coloured Hotspots for tours:

When making a multi node tour you will have hotspots everywhere, some leading to new rooms some to go back to the start.

I got this idea from a trip to Barcelona; they have busses which have there own routs, Red, Blue and Green.

Why not have this in your tours, the hotspot arrows going in one direction say leading in to the tour can be one colour while the arrows leading the viewer back to the start can be a different colour.

You could use colours to guide viewers to different parts of a building, guiding the tour.

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How to set global security settings

The following steps guide you through how to set a folder or a hard drive to allow local and network access to your flash player.

Select a location on your computer, in this case a folder on my desktop. I will also label it Test Folder.

Go to the flash player help website, the below link takes you directly to the Global Security Settings panel: Here

Click the drop down box the click Add Location.

Click on Browse for folder.

Select the folder you made earlier and then click OK. Or you can select a one or all of your hard drives.

Make sure that the folder is in the list and that, Always allow is selected.

Then close the window. You can test all your panoramas or objects in this folder for correct operation.

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