CamVerce Studio: Interactive features: Changing properties for interactive object

 

You can bring up this window by either double clicking the interactive object or Insert menu > Object Properties > Interactive Properties

As you can see, there are four sections in this window. The first thing you need to set is Event. There are four events:

 

Mouse left button	Single click, double click and Drag & Drop. In order for these events to work you have to click on the interactive object first.
Mouse right button	Single click, double click and Drag & Drop. In order for these events to work you have to click on the interactive object first.
Key down	Any key pressed from the keyboard. Doesn’t have to be on the object.
Ctrl, Alt and Shift + key	You can make a combination of these keys (ex. Ctrl + C). Doesn’t have to be on the object.

The second thing you will want to do is change the cursor shape. The mouse cursor shape will change when the cursor is over the object.

The third step is to set up actions when the user followed as you set in the interactive object.  There are five actions available:

 

Nothing	The movie will stay on the current frame
Play next frame	The movie will continue to the next frame
Play a specific frame	The movie will move to a specific frame you set by clicking the Settings button.
Open URL	This will open a website you set using user’s default internet browser. You have to enter the URL in the Info field
Run Program	This will run another application. Click Settings button to choose exe file.

The last section is to set up actions for when the user didn’t follow what you set in the interactive object. You can set the number of attempts. If you have set the attempt to 3 and the user failed in the first 2 attempts but made it in the last attempt, the action you set in the “When Succeed” will play. There are 6 available actions:

 

Nothing	The movie will stay on the current frame
Play previous frame	Move to the previous frame and play
Play next frame	The movie will continue to the next frame
Play a specific frame	The movie will move to a specific frame you set by clicking the Settings button.
Open URL	This will open a website you set using user’s default internet browser. You have to enter the URL in the Info field
Run Program	This will run another application. Click Settings button to choose exe file.

I have set “left mouse click”, “Hand shape cursor”, play the next frame when succeed and play the previous frame when failed as you can see from the picture below:

 

This setting will keep showing the current frame until the user succeeds.  

Let’s play the project to see if the interactive object works.
Move to any previous frame and click Play menu and select Play.

The movie will play until the frame you added an interactive object on. You won’t be able to see the interactive object but you will notice that the mouse cursor will change if you move your mouse over to where you placed the object.

If you left click on the interactive object, the next frame after the interactive object will be played. If you incorrectly click it, previous frame will be played. In this setting, this interactive object will loop until you correctly click on it.

 

You can simply draw a same size rectangle around the interactive object to use as an indicator. If you are adding an interactive object on buttons or icons, you may not need indicators.

 

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Next: CamVerce Studio: Interactive features: Adding a “drag and drop” event

 

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