Set how far visitors zoom in one scene

A scene can have zoom limits of its own: the closest visitors can zoom in and the furthest they can zoom out, for that one scene of that one tour. Use it to keep visitors from zooming out to a ceiling that looks bent, or from zooming in past what the photo holds. The rest of the tour follows the tour's own zoom settings in the Design tab (Pan and zoom controls).

Who can use it. The owner, and collaborators whose role includes the Panoramas tab (Editors and Admins by default). No plan is needed.

Basic and Advanced. The panel is in the Advanced view. A scene that already has limits of its own shows the panel in the Basic view too, so you can change or remove them.

When visitors get a change. The viewer above the panel follows a change at once. Visitors get it when the tour's page is made again, which happens right after the save unless the tour uses Draft Workflows; then it waits for Publish changes (My changes do not show for visitors).

Field of view

The field of view (FOV) is how much of a scene a visitor sees at once, measured in degrees: a small number is zoomed in, a large one is zoomed out. In Panoramr it is counted from the top to the bottom of the picture, and zooming changes it. Every scene opens at the tour's Initial zoom (FOV), 90 degrees unless you change it (Transitions and cameras), and visitors can zoom within the tour's limits. This page sets limits for one scene instead of the tour's, anywhere from 10° to 140°, under Zoom limits for this room. Set the starting view says where the zoom is and is not used.

The panel

Zoom limits for this room

The closed panel under the picture on the Panoramas tab.

Where: Panoramas tab, Panorama Settings, under the viewer. Click its heading to open it. Default: Closed. Its second line says Uses the tour's setting, or Set for this room: and the degrees, such as furthest out 100°, closest in 30°. What it does: Opens the two settings below. It explains that the numbers are degrees of what the view shows from top to bottom, that a smaller number is closer, and that it counts for this scene in this tour only; the others follow the tour's setting. What visitors see: Nothing until a limit is set. Related: Set the starting view of a scene.

Furthest zoom out

How wide the view can get in this scene.

Where: Zoom limits for this room, first setting. Default: Use the tour's setting: it says The tour's setting: 100°., or, with Lock maximum zoom on in the Design tab, The tour's setting: no further out than the room opens at and the degrees. What it does: Choose Set for this room and type a number of degrees from 10° to 140° (a larger number is further out). It is how much the view shows from top to bottom. A scene's own furthest zoom out wins over Lock maximum zoom. It is saved as soon as you leave the box. What visitors see: They cannot zoom out past it, on any screen shape. Needs: A larger number than Closest zoom in when both are set; otherwise the panel says that the closest zoom in has to be closer than the furthest zoom out.

Closest zoom in

How close the view can get in this scene.

Where: Zoom limits for this room, second setting. Default: Use the tour's setting: The tour's setting: 22.5°. What it does: Choose Set for this room and type a number of degrees from 10° to 140° (a smaller number is closer). What visitors see: They cannot zoom in past it.

Use the tour's setting

Takes this side's limit off the scene.

Where: The list at the top of each setting, with Set for this room. What it does: The scene follows the tour again on that side. When both sides are on it, the scene has no limits of its own and the panel returns to Uses the tour's setting.

Set for this room

Gives this side a limit of the scene's own.

Where: The same list. What it does: Shows a box Furthest zoom out, in degrees or Closest zoom in, in degrees. It starts at what the tour gives. A number outside 10° to 140° is refused and the panel says which range is allowed; an empty box asks you to type a number or choose the tour's setting.

Set from the current view

Takes the number from how far the picture is zoomed now.

Where: The button under each setting. What it does: Zoom the picture to where it should stop, then click it: the setting becomes Set for this room with that number, rounded to a tenth of a degree. If the picture is not shown yet it says The panorama is not shown yet: wait for it, then try again.

How it meets the tour's zoom

The tour's zoom settings are in the Design tab (Transitions and cameras): Initial zoom (FOV), Lock maximum zoom and the upward and downward limits. The scene's limits only change the zoom of that scene:

• A side you set replaces the tour's limit on that side, for any screen, and the number you typed, measured from top to bottom, is what holds.
• The scene opens at the tour's Initial zoom (FOV), moved inside the scene's limits. A starting view saved outside them is moved inside when the limits are saved.
• The upward and downward limits (the pitch) stay the tour's.
• The pictures on the Panoramas and Hotspots tabs zoom within the limits, as visitors will.

The limits belong to this scene in this tour only. If another tour uses the same panorama, it keeps its own.

Troubleshooting

I cannot zoom out as far as before in one scene. The scene has its own limit. Set Furthest zoom out back to Use the tour's setting, or type a larger number.

The panel refuses a number. Numbers run from 10° to 140°, and the closest zoom in must be a smaller number than the furthest zoom out.

Visitors still zoom as before. The tour's page has not been made again. If the tab row shows Draft mode active, click Publish changes.

A tour I imported has limits I did not set. The importers turn the zoom limits of VTfusion, krpano and Pano2VR tours into scene limits; check them here.