Photographs in 3D Walkthroughs

If you've ordered a 3D Walkthrough in the last few days, you will have noticed that we've updated the ordering process and added some new screens. Following customer feedback, our main focus at present is actually on new fixture and furnishing styles. However two smaller projects have come to fruition early.

Firstly, the system now asks whether the property has its own external entrance door, like a house, or whether the main door is actually a door onto a communal hallway, like most flats. This enables the Walkthrough to display the external view of the property more appropriately, skipping the "spinning" section at the beginning for flats.

On the next page, you now have the opportunity to upload photographs which will be incorporated into the 3D Walkthrough itself, as still images inserted at appropriate points in the video. For each photograph, you can specify a caption to appear with it (e.g. 'Living Room'), and also where it was taken. For houses, you can also say from which angle the exterior shots were taken from and they will appear at the corresponding point when the camera rotates around the property at the beginning.

There's no limit to the number of photos you can include, and where the interior of a property is well presented a combination of exterior and interior photos works well.

We'll carefully fine-tune this new feature over the next week or so, further improving timing of when the photos appear. Naturally we would be delighted to hear any feedback you have -- there's already an impressive number of Walkthroughs live with photos and we'll link to some of the best next week.