Presentations are groups of images, videos, sequences and panoramas. They offer an interactive and immersive experience to viewers where they can navigate freely throughout your Twinmotion scenes using a computer, tablet, or smartphone. You can adjust several viewing parameters such as Time of day, Rendering mode, navigation Speed, and Travel mode (Walk or Fly).
When you upload a Presentation to Twinmotion Cloud, you can share it using the automatically generated hyperlink or QR code provided in the Twinmotion Cloud Web Drive.
This page explains how to access and view a Presentation using a hyperlink or a QR code.
You can also share a Presentation by embedding it into the web page of any website using the HTML embed code supplied in the Web Drive for each Presentation. Embedded Presentations are displayed automatically in an inline frame (iframe) when viewers open the web page.
Opening a Presentation from a Hyperlink
Click the hyperlink of the Presentation, or enter the hyperlink in the address bar of your browser.
If it is not password-protected, the Presentation opens.
If it is password-protected, you are prompted to enter the password provided with the hyperlink.
Click the Join Presentation button.
Opening a Presentation from a QR Code
Open the camera of your mobile device or tablet.
Scan the QR code with the camera.
Click the web address that appears on the screen.
If the Presentation is not password-protected, the Presentation opens.
If the Presentation is password-protected, you are prompted to enter the password.
Enter the password that appears at the bottom of the QR code image.
Click image to expand.
Click the Join Presentation button.
User Interface Overview
The three main areas in a Presentation are:
The Viewport
The Media strip
The Preferences menu
| Area | Description |
|---|---|
1. Viewport | The Viewport is where the images, videos, sequences, and panoramas appear. You can navigate images and panoramas using keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and touchscreen controls. |
2. Media strip | The Media strip contains thumbnail images of all the media contained within a Presentation. Click a thumbnail to view the media in the Viewport. |
3. Preferences menu | The Preferences menu contains two tabs:
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User Interface Controls
| Icon | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
End Presentation |  | Ends the Presentation. |
Full Screen |  | Enables and disables full screen mode. You can also press the Esc key on your keyboard to exit full screen mode. If a Presentation is embedded in a website (using the HTML embed code), fullscreen mode may not be available as some website providers do not allow full screen functionality for embedded iframe content on their websites. If full screen mode is not available in an embedded Presentation, contact your website administrator for help resolving the issue. |
Preferences |  | Opens and closes the Preferences menu. |
Open / Close Media strip |  | Opens and closes the Media strip. |
Play / Pause Presentation |  | Plays and pauses Presentations. |
Enable / Disable Motion Sensors (on mobile devices and tablets only) |  Enabled and disabled Motion Sensors icon | iOS or Android mobile devices and tablets contain motion sensors. These sensors are used to monitor the physical motion of the device. When viewing Presentations on a mobile device or a tablet where motion sensors are enabled, you can look around the scene by moving your device. You can enable the motion sensors directly from within Presentations by clicking the Enable / Disable Motion Sensors icon. The motion sensor feature is not available on devices that do not have motion sensors. |
Navigation Controls
When you first open a Presentation, a Navigation panel appears on top of the scene. The Navigation panel contains information on how to navigate in a scene by using a mouse, a keyboard, trackpad controls, or touchscreen gestures.
The first panel provides information on how to navigate using a mouse.
Click the arrow on the right side of the panel to see how to navigate using a keyboard, a trackpad, and touchscreen gestures.
After you close the Navigation panel, you can view the shortcuts again in the Controls tab by clicking the Preferences icon.
Changing the Navigation Mode
By default, the Twinmotion Presentation navigation mode is selected, but you can switch to the Twinmotion Editor navigation mode if you prefer.
Both navigation modes are identical, except for the Look around and Orbit modes.
| Twinmotion Presentation | Twinmotion Editor | |
|---|---|---|
Look around |  |  |
Orbit |  |  |
To change the Navigation mode:
Click the Preferences icon, and then select the Controls tab.
In the Controls panel, click in the Navigation dropdown menu and select the navigation mode for the software you would like to mimic. When you select a navigation mode, the mouse and keyboard shortcuts of the Navigation mode are shown in the Controls panel.
Navigation modes in Twinmotion
Viewing Preferences
Click the Preferences icon, and then select the Preferences tab.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Language | Specifies the language used for user interface text in the Presentation. Options: English, Français, Deutsch, Español, Polski, Português, 中文, 한국어, 日本語 |
Time of day | Sets the time of day in which to view a scene. |
Time format | Sets how time of day is displayed in the Time of day field. Options: 12h, 24h |
Speed | Controls the speed that is used for navigating in a scene. Options: 1 (Inspect), 2 (Handle), 3 (Walk), 4 (Cycle), 5 (Drive), 6 (Fly) |
Travel mode | Switches between the Walk and Fly modes of movement in a scene.
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Eye-level height | Determines the eye-level height of the camera. To use this setting, set Travel mode to Walk. |
Phasing | When there are phasing groups in a Presentation, this enables or disables the ability to view phasing by showing or hiding the phasing slider. Options: Hide, Show For more information about phasing, refer to the Viewing Phasing section below. |
Rendering mode | Determines the rendering mode used to view a scene. Options: Default, Foam, Metal, Wood, Plaster, Outline - flat, Outline - shaded |
Safe frame | If Media framing was enabled when creating the Presentation, this option specifies whether or not the setting is used when viewing a Presentation. Options: On, Off |
Resolution | Sets the resolution used to view the Presentation. Selecting a lower resolution can improve performance when viewing scenes that are particularly complex. Options: 720p, 1080p |
Rendering Quality | Displays the rendering quality used for viewing the Presentation. Presentations are rendered at the highest level of quality (Ultra) unless a resource-intensive Presentation demands a lower rendering quality for smoother viewing performance. |
Viewing Phasing
Phasing is a method of showing the different construction stages of a project, or of showing a project under various settings and viewing options. You can view phasing on an image, video, sequence, or panorama.
To view phasing on an image or a panorama, use the phasing slider.
If phasing is applied to a video or sequence, it will automatically be shown when the video or sequence plays. If phasing is not applied, you can still view it by using the phasing slider while the video or sequence plays.
Phasing can be played from any camera position in a scene.
Phasing applied to a video
Viewing Alternative Versions of Media
When a Presentation contains one or more alternative versions of a media asset, in the Media strip the thumbnail of the original media asset is marked with a star.
Click the star on the thumbnail of the original version to view the nested alternative versions.
For more information about alternative versions and how to add them to Presentations, refer to Adding Alternative Versions of Media to Presentations.