What is GMetri?

GMetri is a no-code browser-based metaverse toolkit - providing the complete web 3.0 infrastructure to create, publish and track your own metaverse.

GMetri helps individuals and businesses create, share and track collaborative metaverse experiences for training, online stores, product showcases, immersive tours, stories and more.

Webinar Recording

Here's a playlist of GMetri Tutorials/Webinars:

Demo

Here's a short video to get you familiar with the GMetri Platform:

Create a GMetri Account

• Start by creating a free account at https://portal.gmetri.com/register

• Login at

• The page you see after you log in is the . The portal lists all your experiences.

• Click on any project to open the Experience .

• Go through the to go through the basics of creating a Metaverse Experience

Want to jump into your Metaverse?

• Go through the other sections in to delve deeper

Step 1: Login and click on "Enter Room". There is no step 2.

Copy this Invite Link, and share it with your friends, to have a chat with them in the metaverse. Use "Join Call" to start an audio session.

How can I modify the room?

This is where the real fun begins!

For a quick intro to GMetri head over to . Go through to get a lay of the GMetri land.

To get a hand-hold session that goes through both basics and advanced topics of GMetri, .

See you on the other side!

Here's a 17 min session by @NoCodeDevs that takes you through a Wizard to get your first Metaverse experience.

Steps to get your Collaborative Metaverse in 15 minutes

1. If you don't have a GMetri account already,

2. Open the wizard you want (use any wizard link below), fill it by uploading assets/images, and submit.

3. Done!

Wizard links:

Check your email to get the link to your personalized experience with 5 minutes of filling the wizard.

To make further customizations to this experience, access your to find these experiences listed there.

Collaborative Retail Metaverse Demo

Here's the you can follow to create a collaborative retail metaverse of your own.

Collaborative Event Metaverse Demo

Here's the you can follow to create a collaborative event metaverse of your own.

⏫ Minor Improvements

• New rule to show toast notifications

• Removed restriction to have an empty action in rules

• New rule to register clicks on the SHARE button in product card element

• Simplified avatar selection process for all authenticated experiences

• Display name will now persist across all deployments with an origanization (if used with authentication)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixing experience starting issues when using load from deployment authentication method

• Fixed GLB and GLTF file uploads in the editor

⏫ Improvements

• Walking Speed Multiplier: Implemented a walking speed multiplier, allowing users to accelerate the experience by adjusting the walking speed.

• Character Element Events: Added two new events to the Character element: "Finishes Speaking" and "Finishes AI Response," facilitating smoother integration of events in interactive storylines involving character elements.

• Mobile “Tap to Start” Screen: Introduced a new "Tap to Start" screen on mobile devices to ensure the audiocontext is unlocked, improving user experience.

• Multiline Text Input: Enabled multiline text input in various then actions, including "Set to String," "Speak," "Show Notification," and "Replace Screen Reader Text," enhancing flexibility and functionality.

• Wider Rule Name Input Boxes: Increased the width of rule name input boxes to accommodate longer rule names, improving visibility and usability.

• Autogenerated Variable Table Enhancement: Updated the autogenerated variable table to display variable categories on the Variables Settings page for improved organization and management.

🔐 Security Enhancements

• Password Expiry: Implemented password expiry for GMetri editor accounts. Accounts older than a specified period will prompt users to update their passwords for enhanced security.

• Reduced Third-party App Usage: Minimized the utilization of third-party applications accessing GMetri data to bolster data security and privacy.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Movement Speeds: Fixed movement speeds for both first-person and third-person modes, providing smoother navigation.

• Autogenerated Variable Headers Alignment: Corrected the alignment of autogenerated variable headers for consistency and clarity.

• Logic Map Sorting: Ensured correct sorting of logic map rules and when events for better organization and ease of use.

• Gyro Permissions

🚀 Major Features

• Introduced ability to add substitutes for image, audio and text elements based upon variable value

✨ Improvements

• Added ability to delete multiple selected elements from structure tree

• Fixed history for chats

⏫ Improvements

• Streamlined Avatar System: Simplified the avatar system to include only three options: Ready Player Me, Custom, and None. Removed the outdated "Basic" avatar system that used conical avatars for a more streamlined experience.

🚀 Major Features

• for deployments that allow broadcasters to send audio stream and be visible in all rooms instances.

✨ Improvements

• ⚡ Slight performance improvement in the editor.

• 🔄 Rules can now be rearranged.

🚀 Major Features

• UI to show historical conversation with the Character Element

• Support for KTX2 compressed 3D models

🚀 Major Features

• New joystick developed for navigation on mobile phones

🚀 Major Features

• UI to show historical conversation with the Character Element

• Support for KTX2 compressed 3D models

🚀 Major Features

• WooCommerce integration. There is now a WooCommerce plugin in GMetri. You can bring your existing stores built on WooCommerce easily into the Metaverse.

🚀 Major Features

• Bloom effects for 3D objects

🚀 Major Features

• PBR materials are now supported in 3D Models

When working in the editor, some experiences require that custom logic be run when certain events occur, since this logic depends on specific use cases, the editor has a script property where a custom javascript can be entered. This script will be executed during the run time (i.e., in the view mode)

Here's an example that uses custom javascript:

🚀 Major Features

You can now share your screen on multiplayer mode!

This Menu tab is used to control the Menu used to toggle between Scenes.

The menu looks like this:

It appears both in the editor and in the viewer. On the menu tab, you can control if you want this menu enabled or disabled. You can also control if you want any scene to be shown in the menu or not individually.

🚀 Major Features

• Adaptive Graphics that adjust the graphic details according the hardware device The editor can control the initial value for adaptive graphics between high, low, and adaptive (default).

• Ability to select any Custom Environment Maps by selecting an .HDR or image file as the environment map for the whole scene, apart from the default options provided.

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Removed mouse jump controls from scene bounds, walls and ceiling.

• Collaboration controls displayed above screen-share - so the user can mute/unmute mic while a screen is being shared.

• Screenshare section now shows name of the user sharing it.

• Ripple animation on the mobile joystick to direct the user’s attention to it. Tooltip added to the joystick.

• Lights can now be shown/hidden via Rules.

• In Rules, Point To and Change to Scene are now “Viewer” actions instead of Environment and Scene earlier.

• Defaults for multiplayer settings call/screenshare/chat are now checked.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Tooltip on top of the mouse jump control now disappears on time.

• Scene bounds in certain cases weren’t editable. This is now fixed.

• Certain bugs in timezone and date/time selection in “Current Time” rules fixed.

• Fixed issue with End Experience rule when current scene and initial scene are same.

🚀 Major Features

• Updated UX for Avatar Selection
• New reactions for Players

• Introducing a new Brain type: Role Play (can hold conversations given a personality)

✨ Improvements

• Shortcut for deleting elements updated from Ctrl + Delete / Cmd + Delete to Delete

• Introducing 10 new talk animations for characters

• Performance Monitor to calculate Videos, Audios and GIFs overhead

• Improvements in Brain selection UI

🐛 Bug Fixes

• General optimisations to reduce RAM usage

• Fixed Copy and Paste for elements

• Fixed Experience renaming

• Popup showing slides in sorted order now

🚀 Major Features

• ReadyPlayerMe Integration for Avatar System

• A new and ReadyPlayerMe Plugin for Filemanager. Characters can be imported from ReadyPlayerMe.

• Viewer Camera Mode - First Person/Third Person for 3D Scenes. Use to switch between the two.

• Branding feature consolidation - is now a Professional tier feature, whereas and are Enterprise tier features.

• There is no longer a Starter Plan. Check available plans here:. Older customers who are already on the Starter Plan can continue to remain there.

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Preview URLs now start with “preview.gmetri.com/…”

• On headset, a persistent overlay is visible to enter into Immersive mode

• Actionbar UI improvements

• Streamlined UI for menu, hamburger menu on top-right of the page uses only the required amount of space

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Avatar heights are in sync between non-immersive and immersive modes

• Sideways running issue in 3D scenes in 3rd person view is fixed

• WASD keypress on properties/structure doesn’t trigger movement of the user

• Toast notifications are shown for all operations correctly

🚀 Major Features

• You can now add a Screenshare element and use it to share your screen with your peers in a 3 dimensional setting

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Updated embed code to allow VR mode to work in embeds

• Aria-labels added for EmbedHtml elements

• Added placer 3d to pano elements

• Updated structures for signin signup pages (required for Google SEO)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handling expired preview links better

• Handling editor access errors better

• Removed rules from Collider Meshes - appear / disappear doesn’t work on colliders as of now

• In the area above the viewport, elements were not draggable. This is now fixed.

🚂 Editor Upgrade: V4 to V6

We released the v5 editor in November 2021 and introduced v6 in August 2023. Both of these releases marked major upgrades in terms of the underlying technology and the way we store GMetri projects.

During the transition from v4 to v5, we did not automatically update older projects. Instead, we have continued to support the older v4 format in legacy mode for approximately two years.

Throughout this time, GMetri's feature set has expanded significantly.

We are planning to decommission the v4 editor in the near future. Fortunately, this change will not impact your deployments. This is because, for an extended period, v4 projects have been viewed using the latest viewer. In the viewer we update v4 projects on the fly to the latest version (to v6), without saving them back, to ensure that you can still use the v4 editor, while getting the benefits of our latest viewer.

However please be aware that before the next release, when you access older projects, you will start seeing the new editor instead of the older v4 editor.

✨ Improvements

• Unfocused windows no longer cause audio events to not fire

• Updated supported browser versions:

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed orientation issues with VR mode

• Fixed Point To action in VR mode

• Fixed variable templating for Embed 3D element

🚀 Major Features

• 🌐 We've introduced a new element, Embed 3D (beta), that allows you to add web embed codes into the 3D world. This exciting feature opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for your 3D creations!

⏫ Minor Improvements

• 🎮 We've added a pitch range to 3D scenes for more customization options.

• 🚫 We've added an option to disable jump for 3D scenes for more control over your 3D environment.

• 🚫 We've added an option to disable mouse jump at the experience level for a smoother editing experience.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🐞 We've fixed the CTRL/CMD + D shortcut that resulted in infinite movement on 3D scenes for a more controlled viewing experience.

• 🐞 We've fixed random movement when the Popup element is open and the user presses WASD or arrow keys on 3D scenes for better navigation.

• 🐞 We've fixed model issues with the latest GLTF spec for improved 3D model rendering.

🚀 Major Features

• Viewer

  • VR mode supports Point to action

  • VR mode supports animations during scene transitions

  • VR mode supports scene offset rotations

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Editor

  • Deprecated: Height from text elements

  • Deprecated: width/height/depth from cylinder

  • Improved updates from number/decimal properties

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Editor

  • Gracefully handling all resource failures to remove any unwanted crashes

  • Fixed errors while adding new text elements

  • Updates to experience can be viewed correctly in the preview/view links. Experience data/cache gets updated correctly.

Global Variables are shared across all experiences in a workspace. These are helpful if you want to track your users journey across multiple GMetri experiences.

When the user moves from one experience to another in the same workspace, the values in global variables is preserved across experiences

Defining Global Variables​

• Head over to Settings from the top right menu in your .

• Click Add Variable in the Global Variables section

Adding the Global Variables defined above to the experience

• In the Project Editor, go to .

• Scroll down to see the Global Variables section. Use the dropdown to add the global variable you want to add.

Read more about Variables here:

A major release this time with 3D Scenes

🚀 Major Features

• 3D Scenes enabled for all users 🥳

• Added a new element - Environment (Environments are 3D spaces)

• New SignUp and SignIn pages!

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Adding scenes now adds relevant elements like lights and pano Improved PointTo algorithm to ensure rotation is always linear

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with invites

• Fixed an issue where users were getting logged out of the editor, ensured users always have fresh session tokens

🚀 Major Features

• The Editor now shows the sync status for any changes made - just like Google Docs!

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Performance Improvements for the avatar system

• Performance improvements for beta features

• Improved mobile usability for multiplayer deployments using beta features and 3rd person mode

• In case of any network issues - the user is warned in around 30 seconds that changes aren't getting saved

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed tooltips on navbar

• Misc UI fixes for navbar

• Fixed rendering for Date-time picker for current time element in rules

🚀 Major Features

• Updated Signup flow - Added ability to add organization details, reference and purpose

✨ Improvements

• Updated substitute nomenclature to Variants for Image, Audio, Audio TTS and Text elements

• Added capability to rules to change view mode

• Added CTA to open scene properties in the Structure tree

• Restricting conversational brain to an Enterprise only feature.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed order of elements inside groups in rules UI dropdowns

• Fixed ability to use delete key for input fields in editor

🚀 Major Features

• Editor

  • New properties for text element including background color, background opacity, border color, border thickness. Also added ability to upgrade any existing text element to enable all the new properties

  • A new grow animation option added to all 3d elements.

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Editor

  • Documentation for GMetri Plugin Ecosystem

  • Elements can be added inside groups directly from the add element UI

• Viewer

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Viewer

  • Actionbar element styling fix for devices with smaller resolutions

  • Capture text element matches text with regex validation correctly

  • Embed HTML element appears in popup mode when pip is selected to maintain consistency of the UI

An experience in GMetri is like a file in Photoshop or a project in MovieMaker.

Portal Overview

You can see all your experiences in the Portal. To create a new Experience, click on "Create new Experience", type its name and press the arrow next to it.

• Click on the experience to edit the experience by opening the Editor

• Use the bottom left menu to access more options

Duplicate an Experience

Use the bottom left menu on the Experience thumbnail in the Portal to duplicate the experience.

Duplicate an Experience to a different Workspace

• Use the bottom left menu on the Experience thumbnail in the Portal and select "Duplicate To"

• Select the Workspace you want to duplicate the Experience into

• As the operation might take some time, you will get an email once the duplication is completed

🚀 Major Features

• 3D Scenes are now no longer Beta!

• Simple Movement Controls for Desktop - now you can right click to move

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Sign up pages now look a litte more exciting

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Zone actions (via rules) now work even if they were hidden earlier once and then “shown” later (via appear rule)Fixed an issue with USDZ generation for 3D models

Multiple editors can edit an experience at the same time.

To edit and experience, you need to be either an admin of the workspace, OR be added as a collaborator of that experience.

Use this tab to add new collaborators to the experience.

• Click on Add Collaborators button under Collaborators section.

• Enter email address of a registered user who you want to collaborate with.

Members who are invited to collaborate on an experience will receive an email invitation. Once they accept the invitation, they will be allowed to access and edit the experience.

🚀 Major Features

• Redesigned Publish section for easier sharing

• Ability to control camera height for editing in multiple levels - Change camera height from Navbar

• Ability to toggle between First Person and Fly controls in the editor from Viewport properties. Use ALT + Q as a shortcut to toggle switch

• Better color reproduction for Lights and 3D shapes

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Deprecated Geofencing

• New metadata “description” added to view links

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with DRAG TO MOVE UI appearing over menu

• Fixed scrolling issue with menu

• Fixed incorrect UI states for AND/OR rules

🚀 Major Features

• Editor version 5 beta released and enabled for partners

• Update Viewport controls for editor v5 includes Bounding Box, Orbit mode and Gizmo options

• Dynamic loading for rules UI

• Videos/Audio/PDF can be uploaded via Media Upload element

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Hover action disables built-in bounce animation

• Leaderboard and analytics fixes

• Project duplication to a different workspace correctly copies all files

• Updated preview link for experiences in portal listing page

Use the Settings > Variables page to add/remove Custom Variables, Global Variables and Autogenerated Variables.

Learn more about Variables here:

🚀 Major Features

• Environment element now allows user to select any custom file as the environment

• Billboarding now supports 3 modes - Y, XY and XYZ

• Text chat for Multiplayer.

• Spawn zones in 3D scenes. This allows setting the starting position in a 3D Scene.

• Multiplayer mode now enabled in all scene types - 360 scene, Orbit scene and 3D scene.

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Allowing custom project thumbnail from Settings -> Upload Project thumbnail

• Uploaded files in file manager no longer need a refresh to become selectable

• More structure and files added to Assets by GMetri Plugins

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed green screen color defaults

• Fixed horizontal alignment on text elements

• Fixed Zone Element’s scaling uniformity

• Fixed hotspots compatibility with VR mode and flickering issues

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Project duplication is instantaneous

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed WebGL crashes due to video memory leaks

• Org users with member access can now access viewer groups page

• AR elements shows selected file name when

• Fixed transitions when going from a gyro locked scene to a non gyro locked scene.

While building an experience you can keep previewing it to check how viewers will experience it. Opening a preview always directly opens the scene that you were on in the editor.

Note that these preview links are meant for previewing the experience only. The preview links fast - you should keep opening new preview tabs by every time you want to preview.

Also read:

Use the tour mode to start a guided tour which starts after a few seconds of inactivity. The guided tour slowly rotates the scenes that the viewer is in and then transitions through all the scenes in the list below, one by one.

After enabling tour mode, you may select the scenes and the order in which to show them.

Here's an example tour mode:

You can access your experience settings using the Settings (gear) icon on the top-bar.

Check the sub-pages to know more about each individual section.

🚀 Major Features

We have released some features this time that are great for creating multiplayer games!

🔄 Shared Rules Update:

🚀 Major Features

• Viewer

🚀 Major Features

• A new section at the top of you portal - My Metaverse Rooms which is a set of deployments that you can use out of the box with a GMetri account.

🚀 Major Features

• Editor

All assets used in GMetri experiences are managed using the Fila Manager.

You can access the File Manager insider the editor by clicking on the folder icon on the left bar.

Uploading assets

To upload assets, drag and drop any number of file or folders to the file manager screen.

🚀 Major Features

• You can now add rules to load another GMetri experience. This allows you to create a web of Metaverses from a single central space.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Editor

The Editor is the interface you use to build your experience. It has 2 primary panels: Top bar and Right panel.

In addition, there's a Viewport Properties panel at the bottom left. Learn more about it at the link below:

Top Bar

Teams

After signing up on GMetri, you get a default Workspace. You are the admin of your workspace. Admins can add team members and team members can create experiences in the workspace.

Adding Team Members​

🚀 Major Features

• Portal

🚀 Major Features

• Portal

How do I place/move elements in my experience?

There are 3 ways to place/move elements in an experience, from viewport properties - , and . You can also do the same using .

🚀 Major Features

• New Volume and Tour mode controls for viewer links

🚀 Major Features

• Viewer

A Scene in GMetri is like a slide in a presentation or a chapter of a book. Scenes break-up an experience into many parts.

• Add a Scene by using the + icon in the top bar

✨ Improvements

• 🗣️ New Language options for Text-to-Speech Element and Character element voice options

Properties of an Orbit Scene

View

🚀 Major Features

• Multi-user editing support for editor

Zones are interactive areas that can be used for a variety of purposes.

When you add a new 3D Scene, there's always a default Zone that gets added - which is the spawn zone. A Spawn Zone controls where viewers will spawn when they enter the 3D Scene.

How can I set the spawn zone?

To include a 'Zone' in your experience, navigate to the 3D elements section and click the '+' icon. Then, select the 'Zone' element and add it to your experience.

⏫ Minor Improvements

• 📝 We've made the "is in list" and "is not in list" rule events case insensitive for a more user-friendly experience.

🚀 Major Features

• DRACO compressed models are now supported. This allows you to use models that are highly optimized for the web. Learn more about DRACO compression .

🚀 Major Features

The much awaited VR mode support is finally here! 🎉

• You can now move within VR mode using headset controllers. You can move using either the thumbstick

🚀 Major Features

• V5 Viewer official release

How do I add a video to my experience?

Also read

🚀 Major Features

• Speed improvements for view links for USA and surrounding regions

🚀 Major Features

• A new to check the estimated performance and metrics about the scene (accessible via navbar)

Can I add images to my experience?

Step 1: Add an Image

You can add an image by clicking on the '+' icon in the top bar.

Properties of a 360 Scene

The properties panel in a 360 scene provides multiple options to adjust an element or an item in an experience.

🚀 Major Features

🎮 New Multiplayer System Released

We released a new Multiplayer System today, which culminates a long journey of upgrades that started last year. These include the v6 release that made our underlying JSON robust and efficient, and a new multiplayer written in-house, keeping the future in mind so that we aren't limited by multiplayer scale and room limits - even for the foreseeable future.

The new multiplayer system also brings with it a host of improvements and bug fixes.

• 💡 Developed in-house

• 🌐 Now supports up to 100 users simultaneously in a single room.

• 📍 Fixed issues with initial player positions.

• 🔝 Room capacity increased to 100 for enterprise customers

Editor Updates:

• 📚 GMetri SCORM API now supports multiple SCORM elements within the same scene.

• 🌐 Ability to Show/Hide Groups in the structure tree. (Note: This doesn't work on colliders currently).

• 📂 Implemented rules to control visibility of entire groups.

• ⌨ Shift-select multiple items in the Structure tree (Ctrl-select remains).

⏫ Minor Improvements

• 🖼️ New template for custom Share URL patterns in Product Card elements.

• 📝 Expanded template variables, fully documented here:

• 🔐 Direct passcode entry in moderator URL using ?passcode=yyyy.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• 🔄 Fixed a bug in "Load from another deployment" authentication affecting viewer’s state.

• 💾 Enhanced memory usage with multiple avatars and scene transitions.

• 📺 Fixed screen source switching issues in Screenshare Element.

• 🎲 Addressed multiplayer to single-player downgrades.

🚀 Major Features

• 💺Seat element released in beta

✨ Improvements

• ⚡ The Rules section now works better (around 5x speed improvement). The list of elements in dropdowns is now ordered according the Structure Panel.

Here's a before vs. after comparison when scrolling the Rules UI:

• 🧍‍♂️ Idle animations of Avatars improved.

• 🧍‍♀️ There are a few issues in some animations in female avatar. Changes were made to help fix that in the coming few days.

• 🛠️ Japanese translations in screenshare and multiplayer mode (when "Japanese" is selected as "Viewer UI Language" from Settings.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🛠️ The editor has now transitioned to v6. Most of the issues cased by the v5 to v6 have been resolved.

• 💾 Code optimizations done to reduce memory usage.

• 🎯 Copying (ctrl-c, ctrl-v) scenes across projects now also copies variables that were referenced in the rules for that scene. (Note: global variables are not copied over).

🚀 Major Features

• Editor

  • Users are greeted with an onboarding guide

  • Rolling out V5 Editor as default editor for new projects and option to upgrade existing v4 projects to v5 projects

  • A new Resource Panel has been added with lots of useful links and guides

  • Ability to convert TTS to Audio element

• Viewer

  • Option to "Enable Multiplayer mode" which shows all the connected viewers on view links. Option can be paired with comments and enabled from the publish section

  • Ability to use "find and replace" rules with string variables

• Website

  • New website rollout

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Editor

  • Scroll position now doesn’t reset when switching between Properties and Structure Tabs

  • 3D Models can be previewed in the File Manager

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Editor

  • Copy-Paste actions fixed for group elements

  • Fixed File Manager searching for Drew Pano and GMetri Pano Plugins

  • Correct mimetype added to TTS files

🚀 Major Features

• Portal

  • Leaderboard analytics enabled for all tiers

• Editor

  • Unlimited deployments for all tiers

  • Fonts support for timer element

• Viewer

  • New Anchored mode for EmbedHTML element which allows to fix HTML content on top of a target element

  • Improved login and viewer state management for deployment links

⏫ Minor Improvements

• Portal

  • General improvements to increase responsiveness on analytics pages

  • Feature restrictions w.r.t to Pricing 2021

  • For new signups 1st project created is always V5

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Editor

  • Fixed issue with audio element preview and file selection

  • Fixed issue with AR element file selection

  • Removed textbox placeholders from unwanted places

Viewport Properties is an editor panel that facilitates the movement and placement of items within your experience.

Camera Mode

First Person Camera Mode

First person mode allows you move along the plane at a given height using the WASD or the arrow keys. You can control this height from the Top Bar.

Fly Camera Mode

In Fly Mode, you can:

• Use left click and drag to orbit around a point

• Use scroll bar to move forward and backward

• Use right click and drag to pan

Transform Mode

The transform how you move elements in the editor.

There are 3 transform modes:

• Drag: Moves the element across a spherical plane with the camera as the center

• Translate: Shows the Transform arrows that allows you to move the element across x, y or z axes or xy, yz or zx planes.

You can refer to the below article to understand how this mode works in a 3D space.

Axis

The translate and rotate controls can be relative to one of two available axes - World or Local.

Scene Bound Visibility

You can change the visibility of the scene boundary using this setting.

You can refer to scene bounds in the below article to understand how they work

Bounding Box

This is 3D cuboid frame that encloses an element within the experience. It is used to represent the dimensions and position of an item.

Shown below are examples with and without bounding box visibility.

Sketchfab.com makes it easy for anyone to publish and find 3D content online. With a community of millions of creators and published models, they are one of the largest platforms for immersive and interactive 3D content.

Integrating with Sketchfab allows you to search the entire Sketchfab database of 3D assets and bring it right into your own Metaverse!

Importing a Model from Sketchfab into your Asset Library

Once you click on 'File Manager', Sketchfab will become visible to you.

Simply click on 'Sketchfab' and choose 'Explore Sketchfab'.

You will be then redirected to 'Connect Sketchfab'

After clicking on 'Connect Sketchfab', a pop-up will appear like the one below. You can create your account using your email ID and password, or connect via social media logins, Google login, or your company SSO.

If you prefer, you can click on 'Create an account' to set up a new account.

After logging in, you will be redirected to the search page within the file manager.

To find the items or elements you're looking for, simply use the search bar to conduct a search.

After finding the desired item or element, select it and then click on 'Import'.

The model you imported will be saved under My Assets > My Imports > 3D Models (or a similar location based on the type of element you imported).

Using an imported Asset from your Asset Library

To add the downloaded item to your experience:

• Add a "3D Model" element

• Click on its file or "Upload / Choose File"

• In the File Manager that opens, navigate to My Assets > My Imports > 3D Models , then simply click on the imported model and then click 'select'

When you add a new 3D Scene, there's a default light setup already present for you.

There are 3 types of lights in GMetri - Ambient, Point and Directional.

Ambient Light

Ambient Light is a lighting technique used in an experience to provide an overall level of illumination to a scene or environment. It's a type of indirect lighting that simulates the light that is reflected or scattered from surfaces in a scene, such as walls or objects.

Ambient Light helps to create a more realistic and immersive environment, and it can be adjusted to different levels to change the mood and tone of the scene. It's also useful for providing a base level of illumination when other lighting sources, such as directional or point lights, are not sufficient.

In any experience, ambient light can be set and adjusted using tools and controls provided by the platform or development environment.

Point Light

Point lights are often used in combination with other lighting techniques, such as ambient light or directional light, to create a more complex and realistic lighting setup. They can be placed in specific locations within a scene or environment to highlight or illuminate certain objects or areas.

In an experience, point lights can be adjusted and customized using tools and controls provided by the platform or development environment. The intensity, color, and range of the light can all be adjusted to achieve the desired effect. Additionally, multiple point lights can be used within a scene to create more complex lighting setups and add depth and dimensionality to the environment.

Directional Light

Directional light is characterized by its constant intensity and parallel light rays that do not diminish with distance. It's particularly useful for creating dynamic and realistic outdoor environments, such as landscapes or cityscapes.

In an experience, directional light can be customized and adjusted using tools and controls provided by the platform or development environment. The color, intensity, and direction of the light can all be modified to achieve the desired effect. Additionally, multiple directional lights can be used within a scene to create more complex lighting setups and add depth and dimensionality to the environment.

The right panel allows you to manage the lighting in your experience. You can choose the lighting type, color, intensity, and target object from this panel.

You can add a light to your experience by adding an element and choosing the 'Light' option under 3D elements.

Here's an example of how the point light, directional light works. Walk towards the element Sphere and Cube to read through what they do.

An experience will be set with a default set of lighting which will include ambient light.

In case you want to collect any information from the viewer in your Metaverse. You can use this section to show a form to collect data from them.

This can be used for various purposes including training, registration, webinars, events etc. It allows viewers to enter a few details before entering your experience.

This can be set up from the “Settings > Lead Generation” page as shown below

The viewer is presented with a form like this when opening the deployment:

More Options

• Clicking on "Required" ensure that that question isn't skippable

• Clicking on Viewer Identifiers is useful if you want to store this response in the variable.

When adding a file to your experience, there are two options.

By selecting the available plugins from the GMetri inventory.

Step 1: Select element in Stuture Panel

✨ Improvements

• 🪑 Better UX while using the Seat element in the editor - a model on a seat is now displayed while placing the element.

🚀 Major Features

• Updated browser whitelisting for different OS and browsers

Also see:

Avatars are the digital representation of actual people (humans... for now). When you enter the metaverse, you enter as your Avatar. You also see other people as their avatars.

During the creation process of a headset-based experience, testing the workings in a desktop-based environment is often easier. The design principles for headset experience and desktop experiences differ at times due to certain limitations on headsets.

There is an easy way to test headset-based experiences on desktop devices.

This is ONLY for testing purposes. Experiences should be tested on headset before final deployment.

There are 2 ways to setup the development environment

🚀 Major Features

• Editor

🚀 Major Features

• Collider Boxes and Scene Bounds for 3D scenes. These allow you control where a player can move, and improve collision detection performance. 3D scenes are now smoother as a result.