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A Theme is the interface used to interact with your virtual tour (panorama view, menus, logo, controls, etc.). PanoCool provides various themes for different use cases: general, hotel, real estate, construction, resort, and more. Some themes are available only for subscribed users.

How to: in the editor, click the Theme tab. Its panel has:

  • Browse themes: choose another theme (see “Selecting Another Theme” below).
  • Theme styles: colors and typography (font).
  • Component Library: add a Text box or a Mini bar to the tour (Super Cool and Business).

The panel has no logo, button or menu settings. While the Theme tab is open, the tour shows the theme’s own parts, and you change each one by clicking it on the tour: the logo (see Change or hide the logo), the buttons, the menus and the map (see Hide the map).

Menu Management:

  • Add new menu items
  • Edit or remove existing items
  • Each menu item can be assigned an action, such as:

  • Load a scene

  • Open a link

  • Open a popup

  • Toggle background music

  • Open a photo gallery

  • Play a slideshow (see Slideshow buttons for visitors)

  • Show a map

  • Show floor plans

    In a block layout theme, such as Oceania Side Menu, the map or the floor plan opens next to the button or menu entry that asks for it. Visitors don’t see a button or entry with nothing to show yet: no floor drawn, or no scene with a location.

  • Selecting Another Theme
  • Click Browse themes, then click a theme to see its details
  • Click Use this theme to apply it
    ⚠️ Note: Switching themes keeps your menus, logo, text boxes and font, even ones the new theme can’t show; those come back when you switch back. The colors (and a block layout theme’s layout) change to the new theme’s. You can undo right after.

Tutorials:

Themes show the PanoCool logo on the tour until you change it. It’s the PanoCool mark visitors see on a finished tour, so people often call it the PanoCool watermark. You change it on the tour itself, not in the Theme tab’s panel (Theme styles and Component Library have no logo option).

How to:

  1. In the editor, click the Theme tab.
  2. Click the logo on the tour: top left in Basic, Simpli, Clean and Spatial, top right in Slide Menu 1, and at the top of the side menu in Slide Menu 2 (if the menu is closed, open it with the arrow button at the bottom left).
  3. In the panel that opens:
    • Display logo: switch it off to hide the logo from visitors. A hidden logo stays faded in the editor, so you can click it again to bring it back.
    • Change image: upload your own logo (JPG, PNG, SVG, WebP or GIF).
    • Image size: the logo’s width, from 20 to 800 px.
    • Open link: the address the logo opens when visitors click it, and New Tab (Yes or No).
  4. Click Save.
  • Changing or hiding the logo needs the Cool, Super Cool or Business plan. On Hobby the panel says “This feature only available for subscribed users”, with an Upgrade now! link.
  • Each project has its own logo, and switching themes keeps it.
  • Open House keeps the logo in Theme › Listing › Brand (click the listing card at the top left of the tour to open it) and saves as you go: Upload your logo… or Use PanoCool’s, Light box or Dark box behind it, Opens a link with the address it opens (untick it for no link), and the eye to hide the logo.
  • SiteSync has no logo. In a block layout theme, such as Oceania Side Menu, the logo is an image block: click it on the tour or in Layers, then use Upload image to replace it, or the eye icon next to it in Layers to hide it, and click Save.

Other PanoCool marks have settings of their own:

  • Built with PanoCool in Open House: a small line linking to PanoCool, just above the buttons at the bottom right of the tour, or at the end of the listing on phones. On Super Cool and Business, hide it with the eye next to it in Theme › Listing › Brand. Hidden, it shows again if the account moves to a plan without it.
  • Password page: Share › Password Protection › Advanced options (Super Cool and Business). See Private Password Protection.
  • QR codes: Logo in the middle in Share › QR Code. See QR code.
  • Photos saved with Snapshot or Download photo: the “Created on PANOCOOL” Watermark option. See Snapshot.
  • Photos published to Google Street View: the Watermark option of Street View Publisher. See Watermark behavior.

Hide the map

How to: in the editor, open the Theme tab, click the Map button on the tour, then click Hide. Visitors no longer see the map; Unhide brings it back.

  • This works in the Basic and Simpli themes. In SiteSync, click Hide map in the theme’s toolbar. In a theme with a menu, remove the menu item that opens a map view.
  • To keep the map but take a scene off it, click Customize Map instead and click Remove from map next to that scene. Scenes come off one at a time.
  • The map shows the scenes that have a location: the place saved in the photo, or the one set in the Scene Menu’s Scene Settings › Location. In Basic and Simpli, the Map button appears once a scene has one, and so does the GOOGLE MAPS entry in Oceania Side Menu’s menu. Open House has no map.

Open House theme

A theme for homes for sale or rent, made for tours with a 3D view from AI Auto Connect. Visitors start on the 3D view, which flies into the first room. The listing card is at the top left and Contact agent at the top right, with the floor buttons on the right. At the bottom are Rooms, the Walk, 3D view and Floor plan switch, and Share, fullscreen and ⋯.

  • Getting it: Theme › Browse themes, click Open House, then Use this theme. The guided AI Auto Connect also offers Use the Open House theme at its Apply step when it builds a 3D view.
  • Floor plans and 3D view: it shows the ones made in Street View Arrows by itself, so there is no Floor plan button to add (see AI Floor Plan and 3D view). It shows only what the tour has: without a 3D view it opens in the first room, Floor plan needs a floor plan, and floor buttons need two floors or more. Each appears by itself once the tour has it.
  • Listing: in the editor’s Theme tab, click the listing card on the tour, or Listing in the panel. Its groups are Brand, Sale, Home, About, Agent and Contact buttons. Changes save as you go. The eye next to a field hides it from visitors, but only from view, so don’t keep private details in the listing.
  • Contact agent: shows the Name, Agency, Email and Phone from Listing › Agent (the name and email start as your account’s), with two buttons, Book a viewing and Ask a question. Under Contact buttons, pick what each one opens: Email, Phone call, WhatsApp or Website or form (a Google Form, Calendly or your own booking page). In the Theme tab, clicking Contact agent opens Listing › Agent.
  • Changing its words: the listing has no field for words such as Contact agent, Book a viewing or For sale. On a paid plan, rename them in Toolbar labels, in the Listing group. Phones show Contact instead of Contact agent, so rename both. See Toolbar labels.
  • No map and no buttons of your own: the address shows as text in the listing, and the ⋯ menu holds only VR and sound (plus Share and fullscreen on narrow screens). To show where the home is, add a hotspot that opens a popup with a Google Maps page in it (see Web page in Popup content), or use a theme with a map, such as Basic or Simpli.