Discover public 3D scenes and collections
Explore is a way to find places, objects and projects that people have published with Twinbly. You can browse without an account, open an interactive scene and see how another creator has presented it.
Use it to find inspiration for a property walkthrough, compare ways to capture an object, or explore a landscape before making your own capture. A published scene can include marks, photographs and guided views as well as the 3D capture; the creator chooses the visitor experience.
Find a useful example
- Open Explore and browse the scene cards, or enter a subject in Search scenes and submit it.
- Use the available scene or capture-method filters. Examples include Outdoors, Indoors, Objects, Drone and Walkthrough; the choices reflect the content available in the catalog.
- Choose a sort such as Newest, Oldest, Most viewed or Title A–Z. A submitted search also offers Relevance.
- Open a card to explore the published scene. Use Load more scenes when there are more results.
- Choose Clear to remove the search and filter and return to browsing.
Try a subject such as a room, a rock formation or a sculpture. Categories narrow the results; a capture method describes how a scene was recorded and is not the same as its subject. Most viewed reflects recorded visits, not a quality rating.
Search results depend on the content and descriptions available. They are a set of matches rather than a complete inventory of every scene that has ever existed. If a search is empty, try a broader description or remove the category. If search is temporarily unavailable, return to browsing or try again later.
See located scenes on the map
Choose Map from the Explore view control. The map shows scenes with usable location information from the results you have loaded. The mapped-versus-loaded count helps explain why some scene cards do not appear as map markers.
To include more results, return to the grid and load more scenes before reopening the map. Panning the map does not automatically load every capture in that area. Search and category filters still narrow the result set, and some scenes have no published location.
Open a marker to inspect the scene it represents. Use Back to scenes or the exit control to return to the cards. The map is useful context for a collection of places; a location marker is not a guarantee of precise survey placement or permission to visit a site.
Follow a collection
When available, Community collections appears in the unfiltered browse view. A collection gathers related scenes under one link: rooms in a property, stops on a route, or captures from a project.
Open the collection to browse its contents and then choose a scene. The collection's title and arrangement provide context; its scenes remain separate interactive experiences. A collection is different from a combined scene with aligned captures.
Make your own work discoverable
Use a helpful scene title and description, prepare the visitor's starting view, and review your publication settings. Public scene discovery and collection visibility are separate choices. See publishing and sharing and organizing collections for the creator workflow.
A scene hidden from Explore may still be accessible through its direct link and may appear inside a collection you share. Review every member before sharing a collection, especially if the collection itself is public. Drafts and unpublished scenes are not visitor-ready collection members. Removing a scene from discovery is not password protection.