Voyager Story Video Tutorials

These video tutorials make up an 8-part series on the Voyager Story Application – the 3D viewer and editor used for developing 3D Scholarly Editions in PURE3D. These video tutorials are for 3D scholarly editors and Voyager enthusiasts to better understand the various elements of the Voyager application – both in the technical sense of which buttons to click and in which order as well as to conceptually understand why certain configurations might help better illustrate the 3D narratives.

N.B. The Voyager Development Team is frequently updating their application for new features and to fix bugs. These videos were made using the Voyager Version 0.43.0. It is possible that newer versions will have different appearance or configurations.

Part 1: Getting to Know the Voyager Explorer Interface

This video walks you through the menu icons and ways of navigating within Voyager Explorer – the end-user side of Voyager.

Part 2: Understanding the Voyager Story Interface

This video walks you through the Voyager Story Interface and describes that various 3D configurations that are possible using the different tasks — Pose, Derivatives, Annotations, Articles, Tours, Settings and Narration.

Part 3: Uploading and Editing 3D Models into Voyager Story

This video explains how to upload 3D models into Voyager Story (using the Voyager Standalone application). The video also explains the concept of derivatives and how they help to stream higher-quality 3D models without an excessive waiting time.

Part 4: Lights, Camera Action – Understanding the Voyager Scene Element Panel

This video explains the Scene Element Panel in Voyager Story – where the 3D elements (Vscene, Lights, Camera, models) and the associated multimedia (articles, images, videos, etc.) are organised.

Part 5: Crediting and Customising Annotations

This video explains the Scene Element Panel in Voyager Story – where the 3D elements (Vscene, Lights, Camera, models) and the associated multimedia (articles, images, videos, etc.) are organised.

Part 6: Creating and Editing Articles

This video focuses on the articles function in Voyager Story. It explains how to create and customise the articles as well as how to add various types of multimedia using the Article Editor Window.

Part 7: Creating Tours in Voyager Story

This video walks you through how to create a guided tour in Voyager. Tours are perfect for structuring your annotations into a coherent narrative using the 3D model as the center of that storytelling space.

Part 8: Advanced Customisation for Tours

This video delves deeper into the ways of harnessing Voyager’s analytical tools during the tour creation process. It demonstrates how to hide or enable models, how to move models, how to measure or slice during a tour and more!