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      👈  Clickable Assets

      Make your world more engaging with website links, portals, teleporting, and embedded websites, images, or PDFs.

      👈  Create Clickable Assets in Your World
      💬  Display Text
      🌄  Display an Uploaded Image
      🔗  Embed an External Website
      📺  Embed YouTube, Vimeo, or Twitch as an iframe
      📃  Embed an External Image, Document, or PDF

      👈  Create Clickable Assets in Your World

      Make your world more engaging with website links, portals, teleports, and embedded websites, images, or text.

      Every asset in your world can become clickable, making your Topia experience more immersive. Clicking on an asset can display text or an uploaded image; open a website (embed or in a new tab), a video, a web hosted image or pdf; let you portal to another Topia world, or teleport to another location within the same world.

       

      💬  Display Text

      With the flick of your Topi's wrist-arm-like appendage, you can display custom text when an asset is selected.

      • Make sure Builder Mode is active

      • Click on the asset you would like to add display text to
      • The Select drawer will open on the right. Click on the Configuration tab, then select Links

      • On the Links page, select Display Text from the dropdown menu

      • Enter the Title and Description you would like to display

      🌄  Display An Uploaded Image

      Indeed, with but a second wrist flick, you are able to display an uploaded image when an asset is selected.

      • Make sure Builder Mode is active

      • Click on the asset you would like to add an image to
      • The Select drawer will open on the right. Click on the Configuration tab, then select Links
      • On the Links page, select Display an Uploaded Image from the dropdown menu
      • Enter the Image Title and upload the image you want to display

      🔗  Embed an External Website

      Add a website link to an asset to increase engagement. Depending on whether the website allows website embeds, the link will open in an embedded iframe within the world, inside the drawer, or in another browser tab.

      Follow these simple steps:

      • Make sure Builder Mode is active
      • Click on the asset you would like to add the embed to
      • The Select drawer will open on the right. Click on the Configuration tab, then select Links
      • On the Links page, select Add a website, game, tool, or email from the dropdown menu

      • Enter the website URL under the Link field

        TIP: If you want the link to be displayed in a separate tab rather than in an embedded frame, modify the URL by removing the "s" from "https":

        Original URL:

        https://www.example.com/

        Modified URL:

        http://www.example.com/

      • Enter a name in the Title field. If the website allows embedding, the title will appear at the top of the website embed frame. 

      • Choose a Link Behavior option to customize how you want the website to appear (modal vs. drawer). A modal iframe will open the link in the center of the screen, while a drawer will open on the left side.
        Modal iFrame Drawer

        💡 Tip: If you get a message that the link refuses to connect, the site you are trying to embed does not allow iframing, and you will need to open the link in a new tab instead.

      Check out a few of our favorite external games & embeds here!

      📺  Embed YouTube, Vimeo, or Twitch as an iframe

      Once an asset is placed in a world, you can easily make it a clickable object that opens a YouTube, Vimeo, or Twitch video by doing the following:

      • Make sure Builder Mode is active
      • Click on the asset you would like to add the embed to
      • The Select drawer will open on the right. Click on the Configuration tab, then select Links
      • On the Links page, select Add a website, game, tool, or email from the dropdown menu

      • In the Link field, enter the one of the following urls and modify as described below:

        YouTube:

        https://youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xxxxxxxxx 

        Vimeo:

        https://player.vimeo.com/video/xxxxxxxxx

        Vimeo showcase:

        https://vimeo.com/album/xxxxxxxxx/embed/

        Twitch:

        https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=xxxxxxxxx&parent=topia.io

      • Replace the “xxxxxxxxx” with the unique code found at the very end of your video’s url or the name of the Twitch stream

      • Enter a name for the video under Title. This name will appear at the top of the video

      Now, when a user in the world clicks on the object, an embedded iframe of the video will appear. If the video is live-streaming, it will be synced for all who are viewing it.

       

      📃  Embed an External Image, Document, or PDF

      PNGs, JPGs, JPEGs, and WEBP, oh yes! Any asset can open a statically hosted image, document, or PDF when clicked. This can be great for creating an interactive scavenger hunt or for displaying info throughout a world. Users who then click an asset with an embedded image can view the file in world.

      In order to add an image, document, or PDF, the file must have a unique URL. This can be done by uploading the file to: a personal website, Google Drive, Dropbox, Imgur, AWS S3 Bucket, etc. Add the unique URL just as you would add a link to any website:

      • Make sure Builder Mode is active
      • Click on the asset you would like add the embed to
      • The Select drawer will open on the right. Click on the Configuration tab, then select Links
      • On the Links page, select Add a website, game, tool, or email from the dropdown menu

        • Enter the website URL under the Link field. The link may need to be modified to ensure that it will embed:

          on Google Drive:

          • Ensure share settings are set to Public. Double click on the file or click on Preview to open the file. (Do not use a direct share link, such as the link shown in your browser’s address bar or Google Drive share options.)

          • In the window that opens, click again on More actions in the top right-hand corner (three vertical dots icon) and choose Open in a new window

          • Copy the url that appears in this new window and use this url instead to make the clickable asset show the content in an iframe.

          • In the new window, click again on More actions in the top right-hand corner (three vertical dots icon) and choose Embed item...

          • Copy the url from within the embed script, shown between the ” ” quotation marks

          on DropBox:

          on Imgur (images only):

          • Right click on the image and choose Open Image in New Tab.

          • Use the link from the new tab if it ends with ".png", if instead it ends in ".jpeg" or ".jpg", replace it with ".png".