VuppetMaster

All the following commands are functions of the api object from new Vuppetmaster.

constructor

Example:

vm = new VM.Vuppetmaster();

start

Parameter: options object

The command start(options) loads the project and starts the render and animation engine.

Options object:

• ignore_aspect_ratio: Normally the aspect ratio defined in STorybuilder will be used. With the parameter you can ignore the valuse [default: false]
• language: set lanuage ('en','de',...)
• hideModelsAfterLoading: [default: false]
• target: div name to render

The command start should be started only once per session. It is also important, that the size of the DIV target has allway a size greater then 0.

Example:

vm.api.start( { target: 'renderdiv' });

destroy

Stops rendering.

vm.api.destroy();

on

Parameter: event string

Event	Description	Parameter
project.loaded	The project is loaded
model.progress	Called while loading the model	value of the loading progress

With the event model.progress you can handle an own loading progress bar. In this case, the internal orange progress bar will be not rendered. Example:

vm.api.on('project.loaded', { () => { console.log('loaded') } };

vm.api.on('model.progress', { (value) => { console.log('progress ',value * 100, '%')}}

playAnimationByName()

Parameter: name string

With playAnimationByName an animation created in Stroybuilder can be started.

Example:

vm.api.playAnimationByName('animation1');

setSceneByName()

Parameter: name string

setSceneByName set the current scene.

Example:

vm.api.setSceneByName('Scene1');

setCameraByName

Parameter: name : [string] name of the camera

setCameraByName moves the camera to in the project definded camera.

setCamera(name, duration);

Parameter:

• name: Name of the camera
• options: Options

{

"duration": 500 //Duration of the camera movement in milliseconds

}

speak

Sends a text sequence, which will be spoken by the avatar using a server sided TTS.

speak(jsonobject[,endCB]);

Parameter:

• jsonobject: A json object { voice:'voicename', text:'text2speak' }
• endCB : Function callback when the tts output has ended.

The voice key defines the voice name of the Amazon Polly TTS. See list in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html

The text key can be a normal string like:

{

"voice": "Marlene",

"text": "my name is Marlene"

}

or a SSML text like:

{

"voice": "Marlene",

"text": "<speak>my name is Marlene</speak>"

}

See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supported-ssml.html for more information about SSML.

For compatibility reasons, it is also possible to call speak with a normal string: speak('Hello');

And for compatibility reasons, the command { tts:{ voice:'Marlene':text:'' }} is also valid.

speakStop

Stops the current running speak sound.

speakStop();