Actions

With actions, you can add interactions to your projects

Actions can be added to:

• scenes items
• scenes model meshes
• overlays items
• state engine states
• modules such as the QR code / barcode readers

XR+ studio actions

• Change scene
  Switch to another scene.
• Restart scene timeline
  Restart the current scene timeline
• Pause scene timeline
  Pause the current scene timeline, also pause all audios & videos
• Resume scene timeline
  Resume the current scene timeline, also resume playback of audios & videos
  
• Change overlay
  Display another scene overlay, or remove the current overlay

• Play model animation
  Play an animation from a model that contains animations. At the end of the animation playback, you can choose to switch to another state.
• Pause model animations
  Pause all the animations from the selected model
• Play basic animation
  Animate a mesh from a model with a simple animation: scale up/down, pulse, rotate clockwise, rotate anticlockwise
• Stop basic animation
  Stop all basic animation on the selected mesh
  
• Play audio
  Play an audio file from the assets library
• Stop audio(s)
  Stop the playback of an audio file
• Play video
  Play a video from the composition
• Pause video(s)
  Pause the selected video from the composition
• Stop video(s)
  Stop the selected video from the composition
  
• Change material
  Apply the selected material on the selected mesh
• Set material color
  Change the color of the selected material
  
• Recenter composition
  Recenter the composition in front of the user, only available when using 3 DOF tracking
• Reset user position & rotation
  Recenter the composition in front of the user, only available when using 6 DOF tracking
• JS API action
  Send a message to the XR+ Javascript & CSS API

Only available in the states engine:

• Timer => switch to a state
  Set an timer alarm, when the alarm is triggered, switch to another state
• Play basic animation
  Animate a mesh from a model with a simple animation: scale up/down, pulse, rotate clockwise, rotate anticlockwise
• Stop basic animation
  Stop all basic animation on the selected mesh
• Show composition items
  Unhide the selected items from the composition
• Hide composition items
  Hide the selected items from the composition
• Show model meshes
  Unhide the selected meshes from the composition
• Hide model meshes
  Hide the selected meshes from the composition

When to use the States engine?

If you need to trigger multiple actions at once like: change scene, then hide an item, then wait 3s, then change overlay… Then use a state from the states engine