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Hotspots

Edit hotspots on a scene

Place clickable markers inside a 360 scene: informational content, external links, or links to another tour, with the click-to-place editor.

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Narration script

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Hotspots are the clickable markers inside a 360 scene, and here is how you edit them. From my destination I click the scene's name, then Edit scene, and I scroll down to Hotspots and scene links. Now watch the order, because it matters: I click Add hotspot first. The viewer up top lights up and tells me to click anywhere inside the 360 view to place the point. So I find my spot in the panorama, and click. That is it for placement. There is no dragging and no typing in coordinates; the click is the position. Now the form. Every hotspot needs a Title. Then I choose what it does. Show content, for a marker that opens some text. Open external U R L, for a marker that sends people to another website; remember to include the H T T P S part. Or Link to another tour, which shows a preview card and walks the visitor into a different tour. For that one I pick a Target tour, and only tours that have opted in to linking show up in the list. I click Save hotspot, and look at the viewer up top: the marker is already there, in the exact same viewer learners use. To reword one later, click Edit next to it. To move one, delete it and place a fresh one, because there is no reposition control yet. And one warning: Delete is immediate. No confirmation. So delete with intent.

Steps

  1. Open your destination from /creator/destinations, then click the scene's name in the Scenes section. The viewer on that page previews the whole tour, not just this one scene, so you can walk through the arrows into any other room.
  2. Everything on that page follows the room you are standing in: the heading, the Edit scene button, the horizon control, and the publish and share controls all retarget as you walk. So check the heading before you click Edit scene or Publish, because after walking two rooms they act on the room you are looking at, not the one you opened.
  3. Click Edit scene, then scroll to the section called Hotspots and scene links. The panorama list is collapsed by default so the page stays short: open Change panorama only when you actually want to swap the image, and it opens filtered to files in this tour. The 2D poster / thumbnail list below it works the same way: Change poster opens it, and it starts on this tour's images with All my images one click away. You only ever see your own media in either list.
  4. In the Hotspots subsection, click Add hotspot. The 360 viewer above highlights and shows the message: Click anywhere inside the 360 view to place the point.
  5. Click the exact spot in the panorama where the marker should sit. The form below captures the position for you: there is no drag and no manual coordinate entry for hotspots.
  6. Give the hotspot a Title (required), then choose what it does: Show content, Open external URL, or Link to another tour.
  7. For Show content, write the text learners see in the Content box (plain text or small HTML). You can also add an external link; include the https:// part. For Link to another tour, pick a Target tour from the dropdown: only tours that have opted in to external linking appear there.
  8. Click Save hotspot. The marker appears immediately in the live viewer at the top of the page, which is the same viewer learners use.
  9. To change a hotspot's wording or type, click Edit next to it in the list. To move one, delete it and place a new one at the right spot: there is no reposition control yet. Careful with Delete: it removes the hotspot immediately, with no confirmation prompt.