An Elevator takes people between the tabs of a space, which it treats as floors. Unlike a Portal, there is nothing to link: every Elevator serves every floor.
It lives in the palette's Travel category, one of the meeting elements, beside the Directory, and search adds one too.
Setting one up
- Add an Elevator to the first tab.
- Add one to each other tab you want people to reach. Each tab's name is its floor's name.
- Click any of them, or walk your character in, and its panel opens.
- Give each a name if you like: double-click it, or use Rename in its menu. Unnamed ones read Elevator 1, Elevator 2 by position on their floor.
Riding
- The panel lists every Elevator in the space by name. Your floor comes first, marked You Are Here, with its other Elevators, so you can hop across a big floor without changing tab. Then come the other floors in tab order.
- Pick one and you arrive just outside it, its doors opening as you step out.
- A floor with no Elevator still works: you arrive at its Avatar Pad, or the middle of the tab.
- If you were walking in Avatar mode, you stay in it and keep walking from there.
- With reduced motion turned on, the doors do not move.
Who can do what
- Editors place, move, name and delete Elevators.
- Everyone, Editors, Participants and Viewers, can ride.
The look
A lift set into a wall, with steel doors, a floor display over them and a call panel beside them. Its name sits under it. Otherwise it is an ordinary element: move, rotate, lock, copy and export.
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