Chinese Gardens Tutorial Walk, part 4

This continues the CubicConnector 2.0 tutorial from part 3 describing how to create a 7-node scene showing a section of the walk through the Chinese Gardens in Sydney, Australia.

Step 28 - Assemble the movie

Click the "Movie" tab to move to the movie preview area. The Movie area is where you can check the movie interacts correctly with the hotspots and connections you have made.

Click the "Assemble Movie" button to create a multinode movie containing each of the hotspots linked to the appropriate nodes.

Depending on the size of each nodes, the number of nodes, and the speed of the computer, this may take a while to complete. The progress is displayed in the bottom left of the window.

When assembled, explore the movie, clicking each of the hotspots and checking they take you to the correct place. If you have made any mistakes, return to the Connections area, select the incorrect hotspot and change the destination appropriately.

If you would like to change the size of the saved movie, drag the sizer box at bottom right corner of the movie.

Step 29 - Export the multinode movie

The final step of this tutorial is to export the multinode movie to disk. Simply click the "Export Movie..." button at the bottom right of the window (this button is available no matter which area you are currently viewing).

In the file save dialog that appears, choose a name and location to save the movie to and click "Save".

Step 30 - Check the movie with QuickTime Player

The multinode movie exported by CubicConnector is a regular QuickTime movie that can be played with versions of QuickTime 5.0 or later, or further used in multimedia authoring applications such as Director, LiveStage Pro, or iShell.

This completes the Chinese Gardens Tutorial Walk tutorial.

For further information, such as exporting single nodes for use in web pages, or adding maps or auto-rotation to movies, see later tutorials available through the Tutorial Index.

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