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360 image: trigger or JavaScript to change view angle
Thanks, Nathan. I can't use the "hack the story.html file" trick because I work in a team, and the next developer would have to do it, too, and it becomes a nightmare to maintain, especially if I've left the company by the time this needs revision. Also, since it's a hack there's no guarantee Articulate won't break it as part of one of their upgrades.
I'll just whine about it here, I guess.
It's weird, because the relatively primitive CenarioVR had that feature from the beginning. As you imply in the linked thread, it's available in the JavaScript viewer SL leans on, the dev team at Articulate have just chosen not to expose it.
For the time being, I'm stuck with Guided Tour, which is markedly inferior but has the virtue of working.
While there are many things that could be exposed, making designers' lives easier, they are prone to miss- or ill-considered use by the userbase at-large. These could very readily break projects and paint SL in a bad light to clients. I suspect that is one of the main hurdles.
Older software of all types had more access to low-level features that have largely been eliminated, or at least actively hidden away from the reach of the modern user. I miss the old ways. 😔