interactive3dconstruction

Today we completed the design and functionality of the 3d construction resource. It will live in two different structures. The first will be a small website that has a main menu outlining the building and then link to the 4 different parts of the building – floor, walls, ceiling and roof.

The second will be the 4 individual parts existing on their own making them small, portable and injectable to wherever they would like to be used. Each part will consist of a 3d panorama with hotspot rollovers that describe the component of the frame that is being viewed.

Each individual part will also have a link to the original 3d sketchup model that can be used by teacher or students in other ways to create other learning resources, such as video screencasts, images or even build onto.

I will be adding a new part to the blog outlining some ideas on how these resources can be re-used in other ways. If you have ideas already, please feel free to add comments to this blog.

Today we completed the hot-spots for  most simple part of the house, the Floor frame. This model does not have a great amount of hots-spots. Placing the interactive hot-spots is a process of key-framing each spot over the model frame by frame so that they follow the model around in the perceived 3d space. This is time consuming and a little dull, but very rewarding once completed.

This first example is now a flash swf that the user can interact with. The user can rotate around a predetermined path and hot-spots can be hovered over or selected (clicked). The hover state displays a tooltip to the user. This tooltip contains a short description of what part of the frame the user is looking at. Some of these hotspots will have an option to click and display further information such as an image or further description if required for that part of the frame.