Review

The Review window permits you to view and edit annotations, which are markers that can be added to objects in your scene to highlight points of interest. Annotations can be used to display text and load viewpoints and snapshots.

To open the Review window, click on the Virtalis button at the top-left of the Toolbar and select Windows > Review. Alternatively, click and hold left mouse button over the Windows menu of the Toolbar and select Review. It can also be shown or hidden with Ctrl + B.

Annotation Tool

The annotation tool permits you to add annotations to objects in your scene by clicking on them.

Enable

The annotation tool can be enabled or disabled from the button in the Toolbar or by pressing Ctrl + 3. When enabled, the Review window will be shown, and a note icon will be added to the stereo cursor.

Create

With the annotation tool enabled, click on an object in the scene to add an annotation to it. A marker will be created at that spot and the Review window will show the details of the new annotation, which is named after the object it was attached to. The annotation node will be added to the Scenes tree under Annotations.

Annotation Navigator

The Annotation Navigator rollout permits you to select an annotation to view in the Review window and 3D view. It can also be used to enable, disable, or delete the current annotation.

The current annotation is shown in the combo box at the centre of the rollout. When you have multiple annotations in your scene, you can click in the box to change the current annotation. The current annotation will be shown in the Review window and 3D view.

Buttons

Button	Description
	Teleport to the previous annotation in the scene.
	Fly to the previous annotation in the scene.
	Enable or disable the current annotation.
	Delete the current annotation.
	Fly to the next annotation in the scene.
	Teleport to the next annotation in the scene.

Viewpoints

When an annotation is created, a default viewpoint will be automatically generated by capturing the current view. This viewpoint will be loaded when setting the current annotation in the Review window.

Click on the Add Viewpoint button to add another viewpoint to your annotation – the current view in the scene will be captured. The new viewpoint will be shown below the Other Viewpoints header. Click on the radio button over its preview to set it as the default viewpoint or the cross button to delete it.

If something changes in your scene – for instance, an object is removed – then you can click on the Recapture Viewpoints button to update the preview textures of all the viewpoints in the current annotation.

Comments

Comments can be added to the annotation to display text in the scene.

Click on the Add Comment button to add a new comment to the annotation. The default text can now be edited in the text edit box. Click on the Toggle Visibility button to show or hide comments and the cross button to delete a comment.

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You can have more than one comment – they will appear beneath each other in the scene.

Snapshots

Annotations can trigger snapshots, which store the states of objects in the scene such as their position and visibility. A different snapshot can be triggered when entering or leaving the default viewpoint of an annotation.

To set the enter and leave snapshots, drag-and-drop snapshots from the Browser or click on the link pickers to search for an appropriate snapshot.

User Styles

User Styles permit you to change the appearance of the annotation markers and comments that you create. They can be found in the Developer tree under Scenes > Annotations > UserStyles.

Annotation Handle Colour

The annotation handle colour is a standard material that is applied to the annotation marker. At a basic level, you can just edit the Colour property to change the colour of the annotation marker, but there are many other properties that can be edited – see Textures and Materials.

Comment Panel Style

The comment panel style defines the padding, background colour and borders in your comments.

Property	Description
Borders	The padding to insert between the edge of the comment and its text.
Background Colour	The background colour of the main body of text.
Edge Thickness	The thickness of the borders to the left and right of the main body of text.
Edge Colour	The colour of the borders.
Blend Edge	Whether to blend the edge colour with the background colour using multiplicative blending.

Annotation Marker Style

The annotation marker style defines the appearance and size of annotation markers.

Property	Description
Visible	If enabled, the marker will be visible in the scene.
Size	The size of the marker on screen as determined by the size mode.
Size Mode	Whether to size the marker in the World (3D scene), View (current viewport) or in Pixels.
Min Size	The minimum size of the marker.
Max Size	The maximum size of the marker.
Use Material Colour	Whether to colour the marker using the linked material.
Material	The material to apply to the marker.
Hit Test Mode	The shape to use for hit testing.
Hit Test Radius	The size of the shape used for hit testing.
Depth Test Mode	How to display the marker when it is occluded by other objects.

Browser

The Browser contains a filter to show the Annotations in your scene.

The 3 views show the following information:

View	Description
Large icons	Displays large image tiles with the default viewpoint and name of each annotation.
Small icons	Displays small image tiles with the default viewpoint and name of each annotation.
List	Displays the following columns: Name – the name of the annotation. Target – the name of the node being annotated. Created by – the name of the user who created the annotation. Cmt – the number of comments in the annotation. Vp – the number of viewpoints in the annotation. Comment preview – the first 4 words of each comment in the annotation ("[1] first four words of... [2] another comment with more...", etc.).

Settings

Annotations can be configured from the Settings window under Tools > Annotation.

Setting	Description
Show Visuals	Show or hide all annotations in the scene. [default: true]
Apply To Existing	Set the colours of all existing annotations and comments that you created. [default: true]
Show Comments	Show or hide all comments in the scene. [default: true]
Comments > Show Authors	Whether to display the name of the author on comments. [default: true]