Apple QuickTime VR - Manual (Page 66)

2 Choose a destination to link to by clicking one of the nodes listed in the Hot Spot
Editor window.
If you are using the sample source material on the QuickTime VR Authoring Studio CD,
select the Apple Icon Garden panorama.
3 Define the hot spot in the node you’re linking from.
To define the hot spot, click one of the buttons labeled with a geometric shape in the Hot
Spot Editor window. Then press the mouse button and drag the pointer over the area in
the panorama window that you want to define as a hot spot. Then release the mouse button.
The shape you selected appears in the panorama. The shape does not appear in the final
QTVR scene.
It’s best to make a hot spot that approximates the shape of the object you want the user to
interact with. You use the three buttons on the left to define the areas the user can interact
with. You use the three buttons on the right to modify the areas of interaction For example, if
you want the user to interact with just the round table in the image above, you first use the
filled circle to define the area around the table. Then you use unfilled shapes to delete the
areas that should not respond to the user, such as the computer keyboard.
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