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Docs Building a tour
Tour settings
The Settings section holds the project metadata and the options that control how visitors move around the tour. Everything is stored in WTMProject.wtm.
Saving settings
Unlike the other sections, Settings is a form. Change what you need and press Save; "Unsaved changes" shows until you do. Unsaved settings are also saved automatically when you open another section, press Run or Export, or leave the editor. The refresh button (Reload from file) discards unsaved changes and reloads the file.
General
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Loading Text | Text on the loading screen while a panorama loads, for example "Loading...". A percentage is shown next to it. |
| Main Panorama (loaded first) | The panorama visitors see when the tour opens. The first panorama you add is chosen automatically. The main panorama cannot be deleted. |
| Description | A short description of the tour. It is written into the page's <meta name="description"> tag, which search engines and link previews may show. |
Tour controls
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Show Panorama List | Off | Adds a Panorama list button to the tour toolbar (top right). It opens a panel with a thumbnail of every panorama; the one on screen is marked "Viewing". |
| Panorama Scene click/touch drag | Normal | Normal: drag left to look right, as if grabbing the picture. Inverted: drag right to look right, like a first-person game. |
| 3D Scene click/touch drag | Normal | The same choice for 3D scenes. |
| Enable Mouse Look (for desktop virtual tour) | Off | On computers with a mouse, visitors click the view to lock the pointer and look around by moving the mouse, like a PC game. See Mouse Look. |
Mouse Look
With Mouse Look on, the published tour behaves like this on a computer with a mouse:
- A hint says "Click the view to look around with the mouse". Clicking hides the cursor and shows a small reticle in the center of the screen.
- Moving the mouse turns the view. Clicking interacts with the hotspot or 3D object under the reticle; the reticle lights up and the hotspot grows when something is clickable.
- Esc releases the mouse. The mouse is also released automatically whenever a pop-up, the tour map or the panorama list opens, so those can be used normally.
Phones and tablets are not affected; they keep using touch drag.
Project title
The project's title (the title field in WTMProject.wtm) becomes the text of the page's <title> tag, shown in the browser tab and in bookmarks.