Open a scene on click in a new browser tab

[hillel (Hillel Cohen)]

I would like to open a specific scene in a new tab.

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

In order to open something in a new tab, it must be a separate web page. So the way I'd suggest to do this is that to open the scene you use a Go to URL action that is set to Open in new window (generally a tab for most users nowadays!).

As for the URL field, there is a method (requiring a little code) that lets you use an anchor/hash on a URL that can jump to the particular scene. So you'd use the .html page with this # tag. See the post here for how to do that part:

Linking to a specific scene from inside and outside of a Tumult Hype document

Tumult Hype documents are accessible from a single URL. If you name your document 'Flying' and upload it to your site, then your animation and all its scenes are accessible from http://example.com/flying.html (unless you change the name of your exported .html file). This article describes three ways to navigate between scenes: Load a scene directly from a URL (For example: http://site.com/hypedocument.html#contact) Use a button outside of your Tumult Hype document to load a scene in that docu…

[hillel (Hillel Cohen)]

Thanks!

It means that there is no simple solution for this? Writing code does not scar me, but it’s not very handy in this context…

[Daniel]

To setup URLs for your scenes, you add a snippet of code to run ‘On Scene Load’ from the post @jonathan posted. Then, to link to a scene, you put in the full URL to your Hype document (ending with #SceneName) and check ‘Open in New Window’. Two minutes, tops.