2018 WW: WRITE: Tutorial: How to put an interactive story in a 3D web page on 3DWebWorldz

Tutorial:  Put an interactive story
in a 3D web page on 3DWebWorldz

Our current plan for a writer's workshop lends itself to easy extension into interactive storytelling.  Here I provide a tutorial for setting up either of these in 3DWebWorldz.

Starting view in the werewolf scene

• The little info boxes tell the beginning of a story (still under construction).

Two Web worlds in public beta

• 3DWebWorldz
• CybaLOUNGE
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.

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• An interactive story is told in the form of short pieces, each with a bit of the story.
• In a virtual place, such as Myst, the scene tells a lot of the story.
• The placement and appearance of the story pieces may also tell part of the story.
• An interactive story needs a way to put pieces around the scene.
• This article shows how to put notes around a scene in 3DWebWorldz.

Social 3D

• 3DWebWorldz goes for social media with contact groups: Video tutorial
• There is a writer's group here, of course.
• Social communication in 3DWebWorldz: text chat, contact groups, friends, events

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Initial use case 

• Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 1
• Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 2
• Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 3
• Writing Workshop 2: For every place, there is a story: Ideation
• Writing Workshop: Places tell stories: Ideation

Skills you need to put story notes around your scene

• Tutorial: Building in 3DWebworldz: Leaving notes around. Writer's workshop

To place objects

Buttons you need for this task

• Click the crossed tools (bottom left)

Crossed tools get you 

the editing tools

• On the resulting popup, click Edit Assets & Objects

Put an object in your place

• You can put an object in a place by creating it
• Or by copying an object you have already made (Copy)

To put an object where you want it

• Put your avatar where you want the object to be.
• Rebake your avatar.
• Make or copy the object. Rebake the place.
• The object will appear where your avatar was at the last rebake avatar.
• Caution: If you forget to rebake avatar, the object will be at the last rebake point.

To make an object show a popup

• Store the popup text first. 
• This stored popup can be reused in different objects.
• To put a popup in an object edit the object and scroll down
• If you copy an object that has a popup, you can set it to a different popup.

Window for setting 

an interaction

From popups to audio

• 3DWW can also let you put audio files around.
• With that feature you could put dramatized audio bits as part of the story.
• Thus a step towards a multimedia story.
• More about that in another article.

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• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
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