Toolbar
- “New” creates a new viewpoint
- “Play” plays back all viewpoints as a slideshow.
- Viewpoints with no animation will show for some seconds and then go to next.
- Viewpoints with animation will play the animation and then go next
- “Video” plays back all viewpoints the same way as “Play” but saves everything into a video file. You can use this to create combined animation videos from multiple viewpoints.
- “Loop” will start over when last viewpoint finish playback
Thumbnails
- Click on viewpoint to activate it
- Double click on Viewpoint name to rename viewpoint.
- Thumbnail buttons from left to right
- Save as image file
- Save as video file
- Play animation
- Animation settings
- Update viewpoint
- Delete viewpoint
Animation settings
There are multiple automatic viewpoint animations available, that animate camera automatically as follows:
- “Orbit” will orbit around the camera target. “Direction” will define if the camera orbits clock-wise or counter-clock-wise. “Duration” defines orbit duration in seconds.
- “Fly” will fly the camera into the current compass direction while keeping the camera angle and elevation the same. “Direction” defines if the camera flies forward or backward. “Distance” defines the distance the camera will fly. “Duration” defines orbit duration in seconds.
- “Raise” will raise the camera up or down from the current location while keeping the camera angle the same. “Direction defined if the movement is upwards or downwards. “Height” defines the movement distance. “Duration” defines orbit duration in seconds.
Note: Viewpoints save and load following settings:
- Camera view
- Current timeslider time
- Data tree visibility and clipping
- Rendering settings like shadows
Tips
- Make interactive presentations with viewpoints like PowerPoint slides. Each viewpoint equals one slide. You can easily click viewpoints in their order the same way as changing slides. This saves you time from not needing to create separate presentations. You can also share presentations by making a project "Public" and sharing the project link.
- Open projects into certain viewpoints by activating the viewpoint, and copy https address from address bar, and use this link to re-open project always into this viewpoint. You can see that the link contains the viewpoint name, and this way projects are always forced to open into this viewpoint, when this link is used.