Edit your room
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Your rooms are the easiest place to start customizing your Whirled. Rooms are made up of a full-scene background file called a "backdrop" and any number of movable items called "furniture". You can even add background music. Shop or upload, and arrange them to suit your mood of the moment. Whirled's room editing panel makes furniture arrangement click-and-drag easy.
Backdrops and Room Settings
A "backdrop" is a single file that contains both a full-size background image for the room and room dimensions like width, depth and angles. The backdrop comes packaged with the proper dimensions, configured by the backdrop's creator.
See create backdrops for more information about room settings and how to make your own backdrop.
Furniture and Toys
"Furniture" is a simple media file that can be placed inside a room. Shop for furniture under Shop → Furniture, or make your own!
"Toys" are essentially just fancy furniture. All the following information on arranging furniture works exactly the same way for toys. Shop for toys under Shop -> Toys or make your own!
Adding Furniture to a Room
- Choose Me → Furniture.
- Check the Add to room box next to any item you want to add to the room.
Arranging Existing Furniture in a Room
- Click the Arrange Room button
in a room you own to configure the placement of furniture, toys, and doors.
- Choose a furniture object by clicking on one in the room.
Moving and Stretching Furniture
You can use the buttons on the Arranging Room panel to do the following actions in preset increments:
Makes the furniture smaller or larger.
Moves the furniture down and up in relation to the floor. This does not change how far forward or back in the room your furniture is placed.
Rotates the furniture counter-clockwise or clockwise.
Flips the furniture image horizontally or vertically.
You can move furniture by clicking and dragging the image forward, back, and around the room. To resize the furniture, click and drag the small square in the corner of the dashed line around the outside of the furniture. To rotate the furniture, click and drag outside of the small square in the corner of the dashed line around the outside of the furniture.
Other Actions
You can also do the following actions to furniture:
- Put Away: Removes the furniture from use in the room.
- Make Door: The furniture can be made into a clickable Door leading to another Whirled scene.
- Make Link: The furniture can be a clickable link to a web page. Enter the desired address in the text field.
Advanced Editing
If you wish to use specific numerical values for location, scale, and rotation of the furniture, as well as altering the other available actions for furniture, click on the checkbox to use the advanced editing options.
Checking the "Ignore mouse events" under "Object Actions" will allow you to click though furniture that visually obscures all or part of a room.
Music
Add a single audio file to your room just like adding furniture or backdrop.
- Choose Me → Music.
- Check the Add to room box under the song you want to add to the room.
