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Archive for September, 2008

Advanced Flash Export Tutorial

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Last week we added a new tutorial to the collection: Advanced Flash Export.

This tutorial picks up after the Basic Flash Movie tutorial and I suggest to watch the basic tutorial before watching this advanced tutorial.

You’ll learn about the settings for rendering quality during movement, scaling, the hotspot box and cursor setting plus about the HTML externalize settings.

Updated Tutorial Page

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

If you haven’t already noticed, we reorganized the Pano2VR tutorial section on the Tutorials page. Each tutorial description now comes donned with new descriptive icons.

But that’s not all…the tutorials are now available in QuickTime for your viewing pleasure and leisure on your mobile device. Just click on the iPhone icon and the movie will begin downloading. (Clicking on the Flash icon will open the tutorial and it will to play.)

Pano2VR 2.1.0 released

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I just posted the final Pano2VR 2.1 version.

Just a reminder for the new 2.1 features:

  • Patch tool (watch the tutorial)
  • Virtually no image size limits (the 2GB TIFF file size is the only limit)
  • Externalize images and skin (create a player with external images)
  • Javascript interface (documentation)
  • RDF meta data in the Flash SWF file
  • Pano2VR is now available in 14 languages.

You can download the new version as always from the Pano2VR download page.

New Tutorial for Exporting Flash

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Hi y’all.

There is a shiny new tutorial available: Outputting a Flash Movie: The Basics.

As you may have guessed from the title, it provides a detailed description of the basic parameters and tools for outputting a flash movie from Pano2VR.

Flash 9 - JavaScript API

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Since Pano2VR 2.1 beta 3 it is possible to expose a JavaScript API for Flash 9 panoramas. This allows you to control the panorama from outside or request certain parameters from the panorama and process them within JavaScript. I have added a wiki page to document those features.

You can also see a short demo here.

I hope you like this new feature and you find it useful.