# Set how far visitors zoom in one scene URL: https://www.panoramr.com/help/room-zoom-limits Category: Build your tour Keywords: scene zoom, zoom out, zoom in, field of view, fov, minimum zoom, maximum zoom, one scene Last checked: 2026-10-23 Set your own closest and furthest zoom for one scene on the Panoramas tab: where the panel is, what each setting means, its range and the tour zoom. 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](https://www.panoramr.com/help/design-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](https://www.panoramr.com/help/when-do-changes-show)). ## 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](https://www.panoramr.com/help/design-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](https://www.panoramr.com/help/setting-the-initial-view-heading-pitch-for-panoramas) 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](https://www.panoramr.com/help/setting-the-initial-view-heading-pitch-for-panoramas). ### 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.