Littlefield Fountain at the University of Texas. The Tower is in the background. Click on hot spot link to see the statue of George Washington, closer to the Tower.
Hot spots are areas on a QTVR movie that will perform certain actions when rolled over or clicked on. See the section of this tutorial on Making Hot Spots with Nodester or VR PanoWorx to see how they are created using those programs. Hot spots for this 2-page QTVR tour were added in Nodester. In both of the QTVR pano movies of this tour, information about each hot spot is put in the Controller bar when the hot spot is "rolled over" by the cursor. This is a feature of version 2.0 of QTVR, requiring QuickTime 3.0 on the computer and the 2.1 version of the QuickTime browser Plugin.
When you click on the hot spot, a new web page will load, containing the other QTVR pano movie in the tour. That QTVR movie has a hot spot taking you back to this page. You can go back and forth between the "nodes" of this tour as much as you wish. More involved tours, using more than just two nodes might be more engaging. You can put up to 254 hot spots on a single QTVR movie!
Here is the EMBED tag for this QTVR movie:
<EMBED SRC="Movies/UTFtnHS.mov" HEIGHT=256 WIDTH=320 CONTROLLER=TRUE
CACHE=TRUE HOTSPOT1="../Hotlink2.htm"></EMBED>
I have included the CONTROLLER=TRUE here, because the Controller bar displays the information on hot spot rollovers, and has a button,
, that reveals the location of hot spots, in case the user has problems finding them. Double-clicking on this button makes the hot spots stay "lit up" until you click it once more.
I put in CACHE=TRUE, because on tours like this, your visitors are likely to return to the same page again, and quick loading QTVR movies from the browser's cache is a plus.
The new piece here is HOTSPOT1="../Hotlink2.htm".
The number following HOTSPOT is a number assigned to the hot spot
by the software that created the QTVR movie. It will be a number between 1 and
254. The value following the equal sign will be a URL or a file. IMPORTANT!
If you use relative addressing, the file will be relative to the QTVR movie
with the hot spot, NOT the HTML file for the web page. Notice in this example
how the file is specified: "../Hotlink2.htm". The "../"
part means to look in the "parent" folder of the current folder. This is necessary
here because the "Movies" folder containing the QTVR file UTFtnHS.mov is inside
(i.e., is a "child" folder of) the "parent" folder containing the HTML file
Hotlink2.htm.
