
The camera viewpoints discussed in the previous post can be used as before, but note that it is not necessary to save any camera viewpoint placemarks in the new folder, their location is stored in the tour part recording automatically of the KMZ. By saving all the elements in a folder in this way we ensure they appear in the places column of your users so the tour will play properly.
Why Use a Folder? Google Earth records your tour as a series of instructions, it will look for 'Placemark X' to turn on and off in your places column if this is included in your tour.
kmz so the tour will automatically open with the elements unselected, by doing this you avoid the problem mentioned in. Google Earth records the visibility of your placemarks when saving a.
Make sure all the elements are turned off and save the new folder as a. Drag the tour element that you've just created in the places column into the new folder if it isn't there already. The workaround is to save the tour (floppy disk icon in the record dialogue bottom left of your screen), name it something sensible and then play it again - it should now work. The tour will play itself automatically but the elements will not appear as there's a bug. When you have finished the tour click the stop button in the tour dialogue. Record the tour turning elements on and off but only from your new folder. Untick any original elements you have just duplicated in their original location in the places column and all the elements in your new folder. Copy the elements you want to appear in it from elsewhere in the places column (right click the element, then select copy, select your new folder, select paste) or create new elements within the folder. Create a new empty folder (right click temporary places in your places column > Add > Folder). To construct a tour turning elements on and off: It uses placemarks but you can use more sophisticated elements as in this Lake Chad Example which uses screen and ground overlays for text and to show the shrinking lake respectively. The Goldman prize example (screen shot above) plays in the Google Earth plugin, if you haven't got it there's a link to get the google earth file instead. placemarks, ground overlays, polygons) in the places column which are turned on and off to illustrate the topic of the tour. It builds on Creating Tours HowTo 1, In this HowTo we learn how to turn elements on and off in a tour.Īdding Elements: A more advanced tour than we previously discussed uses elements (e.g. This is the second HowTo about tours of a 3 part set.