Exporting 3D scene to Koru Cloud

Koru Cloud is the easiest way to publish your 3D scenes online. You don’t mess with HTML and Javascript and simply get a shareable link with your 3D model - everything is managed by us.

Koru Cloud Limitations

There is always a trade-off between simplicity and flexibility and Koru Cloud is designed for simplicity. This means “no templates” - you get a link to a page with “full screen” 3D scene with default snapshot buttons and no extra scripting. Consider server export instead if you need all these features. On the other hand, in most cases simple solutions work better. And you still can embed your full-screen scene onto a web page!

The second thing is the data storage. As we store your scenes for you it is important to understand the terms. Here they are: if you use a free version of Koru, we’ll store your uploaded scene for a month and then it will be deleted. If you have a Koru license, we’ll store your scenes for as long as you need, while your Koru license is up to date. Renewing Koru license in time keeps your scenes in the cloud - simple.

Also, when using the free version of Koru, you can’t make scenes private. This means other people may see your scenes in the gallery or if we staff-pick them. Consider purchasing a license or using other export options if you need privacy.

Finally, fair usage policy applies. You can share and embed exported 3D scenes the way you want, assuming that it will not create significant load on our servers. If your audience is quite large and you think it may affect other users, please contact us to arrage the better options.

So, Let’s Start?

We need a sample scene for our tutorial, so let’s make one. You can make your own, or follow the steps below.

Run Koru and open its Shapes Library panel (click images to see them in full resolution):

Koru shapes library

Drag any shape into the working area to make a test scene:

Sample Koru scene

Now switch to Materials Library panel, select a material and drag onto the shape:

Applying gold material to 3D model in Koru

Finally you can add some extra details to your scene like snapshots or callouts:

Adding callout in Koru

Rotate the scene around with your mouse in Koru and make sure it looks exactly the way you need. Leave the camera in the “default” position that you want the exported file to show and click the Export button:

Clicking the export button in Koru

You will see the Export Wizard window.

Export Wizard

At the first step of the Export Wizard you will be asked to select the export target. As we exporting to Koru Cloud, click the Cloud option.

Koru export target selection

Then you will see the export options window:

Koru Cloud export options

You can define the scene title and also decide if you want the scene to be visible to other people. If checked, we may put your scene to public galleries or staff-pick them to promote the Koru features. You need a Koru license to keep your scenes private.

You can also configure textures downscaling options here if you have a Koru license.

Set the options you want and click Next to start publishing:

Publishing 3D scene to Koru Cloud

Once the export is done, you’ll see the results page:

Scene has been exported to Koru Cloud

You should also see the scene control page opened in your browser. There you can get the scene link, get HTML code for embedding, see some stats and finally delete the scene if you don’t need it.

If you have a Koru license, you will also receive an email with the link to your exported scene to make sure you don’t lose it.

Scene Control Panel

The page you get in the browser (and optionally by email) is the key to your online scene. Everyone who knows this link may delete the scene, so it is a good idea to keep it private.

Here is a sample scene control panel:

Scene control panel in Koru Cloud

At the top of the page you see the scene title and there is a scene link below. This link displays your scene in full screen and that is the link you can safely share or publish online. This is a “read only” link and everyone who knows it can see the scene, but can’t see stats or delete the scene.

There are View Scene and Copy Scene URL buttons for your convenience. The last button there is Embed Scene that lets you embed the exported scene to your own page. Let’s click it:

Embedding scene from Koru Cloud

You will see the code you need to put to your web-page to embed the 3D scene. Here is the code from the screenshot above:

<iframe src="https://koru.boxshot.com/scenes/e5ec676f97824bef8051" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

If you have some HTML knowledge you’ll find it dead simple. If not, these two lines let you “embed” some other page into your own. The src parameter defines the page to be embedded (and that’s the link to our exported scene), the width and height parameters define the dimensions of embedded objects (and the scene will follow them) and the last frameborder parameter sets the width of the border around the embedded object to zero to hide it.

Paste these two lines to your own web-page and see it in action. Below is the interactive 3D model you should see:

Note that it misses the “full screen” button at the top right corner. That’s because browsers don’t let embedded pages to become fullscreen by default. In order to enable that you need to modify the code a bit:

<iframe src="https://koru.boxshot.com/scenes/e5ec676f97824bef8051" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" 
		allowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true">
</iframe>

The new code has some new fullscreen-related attributes that return the button back.

Finally, you can delete the scene if you don’t need it anymore. Just click the Delete Scene button and confirm the deletion. Think twice as the deletion cannot be undone.

Possible Embedding Issues

If you pasted the code, but the scene does not appear on your site, there must be some kind of security restriction in your content management system. The code you pasted has HTML tags and some CMS prevent you from entering “unsafe” tags. If that is the case, you’ll probably see the code itself (or parts of it) on your page.

The further steps depend on the content management system you use, but the overall idea is to tell the system that this code block is safe. There are two most common ways to do so:

If none of these options work, try googling for “embedding iframe in your site editor” and follow the instructions there, replacing the iframe-code with the one you get from us. Contact us if you get it done, so we can share it here. If it still doesn’t work it looks like you can’t embed the scene to the page. Consider using simple scene link instead.

That’s All!

Koru Cloud is the easiest way to share your Koru scenes online, but there are some other options you may want to try: