1. Creative Empowerment
In this version, you’ll find so many amazing new features which give a break-through in making VT.

• High-quality flash viewer
  Tourweaver 5.0 replaces the old Java applet viewer with shining Flash viewer which supports both spherical and cylindrical panoramas.
• More formats supported for popup and preloading image.
  The new verson supports dynamic swf file for popup image and waiting image.
• Full screen map
  Map will be displayed on the top right corner when in full screen mode.
• Action technique
  This is a brand new technique to let user add certain actions to component according to different situations.
• Dynamic text
  You’ll never be bothered by descriptions of different scenes now because Textarea allows dynamic text based on scenes, maps and even movies.
• Multiple maps
  You can put a whole property into one tour easily by using multiple maps.
• Popup Image
  You can add popup images to your tour like detail image, logo, etc.
• Performance Enhancement
  We’ve applied a better algorithm into Tourweaver 5.0. So it’s possible to import big images like 8000*4000 or bigger and tour will run more smoothly and stable.

2. Highly customizing
Users are free to extend Tourweaver with API (application programming interface).

• Toolbar
  The full screen toolbar can be customized by users.
• Tour movie
  You can create several different tour movies as you like and decide which one is to be run as default.
• Stream loading
  Tourweaver 5.0 introduces stream loading to reduce the loading period when running tour via the Internet. It provides several types for you to choose.
• Loading Page
  The loading page which appears during loading tour can be completely customized.
• Component appearance
  Every component’s appearance can be customized.
• Show/hide hotspots
  In Tourweaver 5.0 you can group several hotspots and decide if they’re to be showed or hidden.
• Walkthrough effect
  Walkthrough effect makes user feel like they are walking from one scene to another.

3. Fluid Work environment
Introducing Grids&Guides, Layout toolbar and Active panel, Tourweaver 5.0 makes it much easier and more accurate to set up tour skin.

• Grids and guides
  You can align components on tour skin more accurately and conveniently.
• Layout toolbar
  Layout toolbar makes it easier and faster to set up multiple components.
• Active panel
  Compared with the previous version, the interface of Tourweaver 5.0 is more active and flexible.

4. Resource management
You can save those frequently used resources into Library panels so that you may directly apply them next time.

• Skin Panel
  Skin panel allows you to save multiple skin templates so that you can apply these skins when creating a project the next time.
• Image, sound and component
  You can save resources like images, sounds and customized components into a Library. Then drag them directly from the library to the skin for reuse.

5. Interactive Realization
By using hotspots, radars and navigation components, you can make virtual tours more interactive.

• Hotspot
  Hotspots can be added on both scene and map. It can refer to a scene, map, url, popup image and so on according to different actions applied on it.
• Radar
  Radar is added onto maps to synchronize with a certain scene so that the viewer can easily make out the location.
• Navigation components
  Thumbnail, listbox and combobox enable users to switch among different scenes, maps and movies.

6. Multimedia
Tourweaver 5.0 makes big progress in supporting multimedia like video output and multiple audio formats.

• Video output
  Virtual tour can be exported as a video in this new version.
• Multiple audio formats
  Besides au, more audio formats are supported like mp3, wav, midi.