xeon

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.

QuickTip Tutorial here: https://www.xeons3dlab.com/post/multicamera-picture-in-picture-using-verge3d

Happy to help…as I am sure many here would be. A little more information is needed.
Can you show a screen shot or you v3d scene…and your puzzles?

The scene – often times… there are objects that are blocking an object causing clicks not be registered….xray mode will help with that.

Puzzles…some times…the logic has events and timing that could cause delays and the when clicked events are just missed. Have you tried placing “print to console” statements in your on when clicked events to make sure they are triggering?

nice catch!!!

Are you using the Verge3D gltf exporter or 3dsmax gltf exporter?

When you export a scene with 4 cubes and a camera (no light) with all the same basic material…
If the cubes are copied, duplicated, or instanced in a way that is not compatible with instancing in a GLFT export…they will be unique geo in the GLTF. If you are successful and creating the instances the Geo buffers = 2 if you are uncessful the geo buffers =5.

The requirements for instancing to work in GLTF is pretty limiting…if I recall. All instances have to be instances from a single source mesh. Meaning no instances of an instance. All instances have to have the same material….there are some other rules..cant think of them right now.

However one work around is to create a empty at a origins of your instance objects…then delete the instance objects in your scene leaving only the empties and the original source meshes then within V3D clone your source objects to the empties at the start.

This insures quick load times, and you have complete control of your cloned objects.

Hi David,
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