The Portal Hopper can be called either directly by clicking on its app icon or indirectly by displaying a link on a website or inside a document by adding a link which starts with “hopper:”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Example:
“hopper:https:\/\/vrweb.somedomain.com\/index.vrml” will start the Hopper and load and execute the index.vrml file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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-al pass asset bundle name of an avatar to the Hopper
-an pass avatar name in bundle to the Hopper (may be left out and the Hopper will use the bundle name as avatar name)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-map <local path>
This can be used to test a project locally. If left off, the mapping goes to “http:\/\/localhost”. The domain name is then mapped to a folder name<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-map http:\/\/localhost maps the link “https:\/\/vrweb.mydomain.com\/myProject\/location1.vrml” to “http:\/\/localhost\/vrweb.mydomain.com\/myProject\/location1.vrml”<\/p>\n\n\n\n