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Interface and Options

James
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    This is the Sketchfab viewer:

    Help

    Clicking the Help icon shows you the available viewer controls and allows you to reset the camera.

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    Settings

    Clicking Settings shows the available options for the model. They depend on the 3D Settings.

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    Settings > Navigation

    • Orbit (default): rotate around a fixed camera point
    • First Person: walk through space and look around

    See Navigation

    Settings > Textures

    Set max texture resolution. We automatically choose the best setting for performance and quality on your device and GPU. If multi-resolution textures have not been generated yet, this option may not be available. We will not show options lower than your device's default.

    See Materials and Textures and Performance

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    View in VR

    Click View in VR to see your model in virtual reality.

    See Virtual Reality

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    Theater Mode

    When viewing on a model page, you can expand the viewer to the full width of the window.

    Theater Mode is not available in the embedded viewer or on devices with small screens.

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    Fullscreen

    Opens the viewer in fullscreen mode. You can also press the F key to do this.

    Opens in a new tab on iOS or when fullscreen isn't available (missing allowfullscreen attribute on embed).

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    Animation

    This is the animation timeline.

    Click Play/Pause to toggle playback. Press Enter to focus the timestamp text field, enter a specific time or frame, and press Enter again to go to that time or frame.

    Click and drag the cursor on the timeline ("scrub") to go to that moment. If the animation is playing, it will play from that moment. If the animation is paused, it will stay paused at this moment. Scrolling while hovering on the timeline also scrubs.

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    Animation options are available in the animation menu next to the timestamp.

    View different animation takes or the Static Pose by clicking the animation name. You can set the default animation and animation order in Animation Settings.

    Change the cycle type:

    • One: loop the current animation
    • All: loop through all available animations
    • None: play all the available animations then stop

    Change the animation speed:

    • x0.1: slow the animation by 10
    • x0.5: slow the animation by 2
    • x1: restore the normal speed
    • x2: speed up the animation by 2

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    Switch between viewing the timeline in seconds or frames by clicking the timestamp.

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    Legacy Rendering

    The old Rendering menu has been replaced by the Model Inspector. The follow UI options will only be visible in embeds where the Inspector is disabled.

    Default (Lit): Use all materials and lights.

    Sketchfab 3d model viewer rendering default lit

    Shadeless: Remove the effects of lights. This is good for 3D scans, baked lighting, and cartoon shading.

    Sketchfab 3d model viewer rendering shadeless

    MatCap: "Material Capture" applies material and lights to the whole model. It is useful to inspect the model's shape and normals.

    Sketchfab 3d model viewer rendering matcap

    Wireframe: Sketchfab supports tris and quads. Other n-Gons are supported, but can cause issues; triangulate meshes if possible.

    Sketchfab 3d model viewer rendering wireframe

    The available options depend on how the model was saved by the author. For example, if a model is saved in Shadeless mode, Lit and MatCap will not be available. This improves viewer load times because it does not need to download unnecessary components (e.g. tangent information used for shading).

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