
#Interactive panorama maker license#
to divide the fruit bowl image into several clickable areas.Ĭlick on one (or all) of your hot spot shapes.įrom the Drawing Tools menu choose Format.įinally you may also wish to remove any shape Outlines.AutoStitch is available to license from the University of British Columbia. Optional step – you may want your hot spot shapes to be invisible and sit over a larger image, e.g. Note: you should test that your presentation and clickable shapes are working as expected before proceeding. 9 – Make your hot spot trigger shapes transparent In the Animation Pane, drag and drop the exit animations into place, under the right triggers (hot spots). Next, you need to make sure that the exit animations fall under the correct triggers that you created earlier.īy default, they will just sit above all the triggers – they need to be moved! 8 – Drag your exit animations under the correct triggers Repeat this until all the information shapes have an exit animation. Note: You must use the Add Animation button to do this, any other method will replace an existing entrance animation – oops! We need to give each information shape an exit animation.įrom the animations ribbon, click Add Animation, then select an exit animation of your choice. 7 – Give your information shapes an exit animation Repeat this until each information shape has been assigned a trigger shape. So, we want our hot spot shapes to be the cause (trigger) for the information shapes to appear.įrom the animation ribbon, choose Trigger, On Click of, then the name of the hot spot shape you wish to be the trigger. We want to change this behavior, and we do this using triggers.Ĭlicking on one shape can become the trigger for another shape to animate. 6 – Assign triggers to your animationsīy default, all of your information shapes will animate when the user clicks anywhere on the slide. 5 – Give your information shapes an entrance animationįrom the Animations ribbon, give each of your information shapes an entrance style animation of your choice. To keep track of all of your animations you need to work with the animations pane open.įrom the Animations ribbon, click Animation Pane.

When you pick new names, make sure you can clearly identify which shapes you want to act as hot spots, and which shapes you want to be the additional information that appears. Rename your shapes by double clicking on their generic name in the Selection Pane. To make the process much easier, give all of your shapes sensible names, you’ll thank yourself later!įrom the Home ribbon choose Select, then Selection Pane. to cover the oranges, use the Freeform shape tool.ĭepending on the number of hot spot shapes and information shapes you have, it could get a bit complicated when you need to animate them all later. To create these hot spots shapes, click Shapes from the Insert ribbon.Ĭhoose and draw any shape that you wish to use as a hot spot (something the user will click on).


The information shapes (our fruit names) will be triggered into appearing and disappearing when you click on an associated hot spot shape object.Ī hot spot object is nothing special, in fact it’s just another ordinary PowerPoint shape. The information shapes can be as complex or simple as you like. In this example, shapes containing the text “Apples”, “Oranges” and “Bananas” are going to appear and disappear when the corresponding fruit is clicked. 1 – Create the shapes that you wish to hide and show when triggeredīefore you worry about configuring the animation triggers, it’s a good idea to have all of your information shapes ready on the slide – and a background image if needed.Ĭreate and format the information shapes that you wish to appear and disappear when a hot spots is clicked.
