Making your VYOND content interactive with Near-Life is easy. Let’s take a look at some of the different features we offer to bring your VYOND content to life, like buttons, hotspots, overlays and more.
Buttons:
You have the option to add button graphics to your scene on VYOND and hotspot them when you upload the media to Near-Life. To do this, just search for ‘button’ or the shape you want the button to be, on VYOND and add the graphic to your scene. Once you’ve placed the button graphics where you want and uploaded the scene to Near-Life, you can use hotspots to highlight the buttons and make them interactive.
Alternatively, you can add buttons to your content with Near-Life. Just leave enough space for them on your VYOND scene and add your buttons using Near-Life’s button group feature. You can select the colour, size, position and font.
Hotspots:
Hotspots allow you to cover an area of the screen to make it interactive. This can cover anything on the screen that you want to be interactive. We offer circular hotspots and rectangular hotspots, and you can decide whether you want the hotspotted area to appear highlighted only when hovered on, constantly or not at all.
Overlays:
Overlays can be images or text that you add to your interactive video. While you have the option to leave them as is, you can also make them interactive. This means you can upload images from a different source and add them on top of your media as an overlay. For example, you could upload a photo of yourself and upload it to your scenario, on top of your animated scene.
Scoring:
Scoring allows you to give or subtract points based on the choices users make. You can also set a pass/fail score. This result can be shown at the end of the video. You also have the option to show feedback. This could be instructing the end user why the decision they made was incorrect.
Free text input
Near-Life’s free text input is a handy tool that allows the end user to have their say. You can choose when and where the text box appears – and for how long.
Triggers
Triggers rely on overlays or hotspots, that when clicked will trigger an overlay to appear. This could be a video, image or text.
Pop-ups
Pop-ups are great for giving extra information. To trigger a pop-up, simply tick the ‘pop-up’ option on your overlay. You can write the text you want to appear, and even add an image that will appear next to the text.
Inventory
Inventory can be paired with conditions and achievements to give your users an even more personalised experience. The interactive video will keep track of what the user has decided or achieved. For example, if you click on a flashlight it will add one ‘flashlight’ to your inventory. Later when you come across a dark tunnel, the game will know if you have it or not. You can use conditions so that the user will only be able to enter the tunnel if they have the flashlight in their inventory.
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