Media

A Media item displays an image, panorama, or video at a specific location in the scene. Media items can be used to embed site photographs, orientated images, 360° panoramas, or photo spheres into a point cloud scene.

Creating a Media Item

• Click the Add Media button in the toolbar, then click in the scene to place the item.
• Drag and Drop — Drag a PNG, JPG, or TIFF image file directly from your file explorer into the scene viewport to create a media item at the drop location.

Ribbon Settings

Basic

• Image Type — Controls how the image is displayed:
  • Standard — A billboard image that always faces the camera.
  • Orientated Image — An image with configurable position and orientation.
  • Panorama — The image is projected onto a panoramic cylinder.
  • Photo Sphere — The image is projected onto a full sphere.
  • Screen — The image is displayed as a screen-space overlay.
• Thumbnail Size — The display size of the image in the scene.
• Reload Time (secs) — How often the image is refreshed. Useful for live camera feeds or images that update over time.

Transform (Orientated Image)

When Orientated Image is selected, transform controls become available:

• Rotation Y / P / R — Yaw, pitch, and roll of the image orientation.
• Scale — Uniform scale factor for the image.

Style

• Transparency — Transparency level of the image (0 = fully transparent, 1 = fully opaque).

Scene Explorer Settings

Expanding a media item shows:

• URL / Path — The source URL or file path for the image.
• GPS Time — GPS timestamp associated with the image capture.

Right-Click Context Menu

Scene Node Metadata

The following keys can be set in the scene node metadata to configure media items programmatically.