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You can just enter the URL into the load data puzzle and it will work if you have access rights.

The following is a simple example… I have placed a json file on the soft8soft cdn.

You can then access this file while playing the app back in the app manager using the load data puzzle by entering the url to the json file. The key is the file has to be accessible.

If you are describing a situation where you have created shape keys and exported them to V3D but “ no Targets” are found when using the puzzles…, this might help.

Having had many projects such as yours…to ultimately be distributed via mobile phones I can tell you that a single optimization stragey is not going to get you where you need to go. To get your project to be viable on a mobile phone you will have to re-topologize your geometry and use atlas maps, map packing, and every other optimization technique at your disposal. You will be faced with a series of hurdles you will have to overcome. The first is the delivery size… this is the total size of all the files that has to be downloaded by the mobile phone. This has to be relatively small as you have already found out. Mobile devices will time out much faster than a desktop/laptop. So the number of files and sizes of the files have to be limited. The second hurdle is performance once loaded on the mobile device. Here you will be faced with reduced processing power and your optimization will be geared towards solving user interaction and the users ability to use your app. This is where the atlas maps and map packing, will play a big role. one 4096×4096 containing 256 maps…is far fewer redraws than 256 individual maps. Depending on your maps this will be something you need to evaluate the download size vs redraw performance and decide which is better.

But you need to concentrate on the model at the moment..getting that total triangle count under 500,000. Even lower if you are using lights.

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I would recommend opening the Developer Tools in chrome and looking at your client site. You will see some errors that will lead you to the solution more than likely.

So…the plot thickens. You want this to be a hosted solution? At what intervals or frequency do you need the data to be pushed and polled? If its based an an automated process like an assembly line the data processing could be milliseconds? A CSV files and google sheets would not be viable in this type of situation. You would your “plants” data to be updated in an accessible DB like NodeJS or similar and then based on a change of state have the website update the animations.

Digital Twinning is all in the business requirements and the very fine detail. It can be done but to do it write you will need to program the interface of the device that will trigger the state, have it post to a server (local or cloud), then there needs to be either a server side script that is monitoring states of the DB and notifying the V3D app or the V3D app has to poll the DB. For commercial uses the V3D app should not poll but should be pushed information as its available.

The first thing you have to do is find a way for your departments to trigger an on and off state that can be interpreted by V3D. How you do this is going to be up to your team. It will also depend on your department startup and shutdown procedures and what type of physical and geological distances there are between the departments.

The simplest approach would be to create your app with a segregation page on startup.
The first page would be your app with the animations of the departments. The second page would be departments status page. This departments status page would then post a message to the server that the status of the department is changed. Then every few seconds they first page will poll the file for any change… if a there is a change it reads the file in and changes the state of the animation.

The data file can be a CSV file with three fields. As an example it might be T,T,T or 1,1,1 indicate all three departments are running or F, F, T or 0,0,1 indicating only the third department is running. You would read in the data and treat it as a list using puzzles.

So there is also the issue of a one department turning off another….so you may want to have logins for each department … depends on your security needs.

Its can be done but it will be up to you to get your inbound data in a format that can be read by Verge3D, JS, etc. It can be as simple as a state on a webpage that changes and this notifies Verge3D that a change has occurred and to play an animation or stop an animation. This can be done using the Call Method puzzles. You could also store data in a file and Verge3D read the file based on a set interval and update your animation playback as needed. You could use the data puzzle and post data….. there are lots of built in ways to do this.