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How to Add a 3D Dollhouse to Your Virtual Tour

A 3D dollhouse shows your whole virtual tour as a model of the building, room by room and floor by floor. Visitors spin it to see how the rooms fit together, then click a room to step into its 360° panorama. In TeliportMe you can build the dollhouse from your floor plan, with each floor stacked on its own level, then adjust each room by hand. For an overview, see 3D Dollhouse.

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Blocks
  1. Add a Welcome Screen to Your Virtual Tour
  2. Add Music and Sound to Your Virtual Tour
  3. Add an Interactive Floor Plan to Your Virtual Tour
  4. How to Add a 3D Dollhouse to Your Virtual Tour
  5. Show Your Virtual Tour on a Map with Map View
  6. Add a Navigation Menu to Your Virtual Tour
  7. Add Call-to-Action Buttons to a Virtual Tour
  8. Add a Search Box to Your Virtual Tour
  9. Customise the Control Bar in Your Virtual Tour
  10. Show or Hide the Thumbnail Bar in a Virtual Tour
  11. Before and After 360 Photos: Split View and Twin View
  12. Magic Embed: Put a Video or Picture Inside a 360 Photo
  13. Virtual Host: Put a Green-Screen Presenter in a 360 Photo
  14. Add a Video Presenter to Your Whole Tour
  15. Reuse Blocks Across Virtual Tours with Global Blocks

Before you start

  • Add your panoramas. Each room in the dollhouse is one panorama from the tour.
  • Add a floor plan with linked markers. To build the rooms in one go, the tour needs a floor plan with a marker on each room, linked to that room’s panorama. Use one floor plan per floor. See Add an interactive floor plan. Without a floor plan, you can still add rooms one at a time.

1. Add the Dollhouse block

  1. Choose + Add at the top left of the editor.
  2. Find the Dollhouse card and choose Add on it.

The Dollhouse view opens. If your plan doesn’t include the dollhouse, the editor asks you to upgrade instead.

2. Build the rooms from your floor plan

Choose Generate from Floorplan. The editor adds a room for every marker on your floor plans, in the marker’s position, using the panorama the marker is linked to. Each floor plan becomes its own level, so the floors stack. Panoramas that are already in the dollhouse aren’t added twice.

The button is greyed out if the tour has no floor plan. New rooms start as boxes 300 cm wide, 300 cm deep and 270 cm high; you set their real size in step 3.

Or add rooms one at a time

  1. In Selected Level, choose the level the room is on. With All selected, the room goes on Level 0.
  2. Choose Add Room.
  3. In Select Room, pick the panorama. A preview shows below. The list shows the panoramas that aren’t in the dollhouse yet.
  4. Choose Add. The room appears beside the others.

3. Size and place each room

  1. Select a room: pick it in Selected Room, or double-click it.
  2. The room’s controls open on the right. Under Room, set its Width (cm), Depth (cm) and Height (cm).
  3. Move it into place with the handles on the room, or type its Position - X and Position - Z. To put it on another floor, change its Level.
  4. Under Panorama, drag Rotation to turn the photo inside the room until it lines up with the walls.

To take a room out, select it and choose Remove Room, then confirm. The panorama stays in your tour.

To move around the model:

  • OrbitDrag with the left mouse button.
  • ZoomUse the mouse wheel or middle button.
  • PanDrag with the right mouse button, or with the left button while holding Ctrl, Cmd or Shift.
  • 2DFlattens the rooms and looks straight down on them, like a plan. It makes lining rooms up easier. Untick it to see the heights again.
  • LabelsShows each room’s name.

4. Name and space the levels

Choose Levels. The panel lists Level 0 to Level 5:

  • NameWhat visitors see in the level menu, such as “Ground floor” or “Upstairs”.
  • AltitudeHow high the level sits. Level 0 starts at 0 and each level above starts 270 higher, the height of a new room.

To work on one floor, choose it in Selected Level. The other levels fade out. Choose All to see the whole building.

5. Set the starting view

Turn and zoom the model to the angle visitors should open on. Then choose Settings and Set Default Camera Position. The dollhouse opens from that view in your tour.

6. Show it in your tour and save

  1. Tick Enabled. This shows the Dollhouse button in your tour. “Setting updated” confirms it.
  2. Choose SAVE. “Dollhouse updated” confirms it.

To hide the dollhouse without losing your work, untick Enabled.

What visitors see

  • The Dollhouse button on the control bar opens the model. You can also open it from a hotspot: in the hotspot’s link, choose Dollhouse under In This Tour.
  • Visitors spin and zoom the model. If rooms are on more than one level, a menu at the top left shows one level or All.
  • Clicking a room’s marker or name flies into that room and opens its panorama. The close button at the top right goes back to the tour.

Export the model

If your account includes dollhouse exports, an Export button shows next to Generate from Floorplan. It downloads dollhouse.zip, with the model as an OBJ file, its MTL file and the room images.

Tips

  • Link every marker before you generate. Generate from Floorplan uses the panorama each marker links to, so a floor plan with linked markers gives you a full set of rooms.
  • Line rooms up in 2D. Size and place the rooms from above, then untick 2D to check the heights.
  • Keep the control bar showing. If you hide it, its Dollhouse button goes too, and visitors need a hotspot to open the dollhouse.

Common questions

Do I need a 3D camera to make a dollhouse?

No. The TeliportMe dollhouse is built from the 360° panoramas already in your tour and your floor plan. Each room shows its panorama.

Can a dollhouse have more than one floor?

Yes. Use one floor plan per floor, and Generate from Floorplan puts each on its own level. The Levels panel has Level 0 to Level 5, each with a name and altitude.

Which plans include the 3D dollhouse?

The Business and Unlimited plans. The free trial includes it too: you can build one tour with every feature, free.

How do visitors open the dollhouse?

With the Dollhouse button on the control bar, once Enabled is ticked, or from a hotspot linked to Dollhouse. Clicking a room in the model takes them into that room’s panorama.

Can I download the dollhouse as a 3D model?

If your account includes dollhouse exports, Export downloads it as an OBJ file with its textures, in a zip.

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