I just released the first beta of Pano2VR 2.2.

New features are:

• Flash 9 panoramas are using automatically the new Flash 10 rendering
• Inline Hotspots: The next panorama is loaded inside the current Flash player
• Point Hotspots: You can add point hotspots along QuickTime style area hotspots
• Extended Skins with new actions and parameters
• Designer point hotspots in the Skin editor
• Hotspot Proxies; trigger events from hotspots in the skin

Some features like domain lock, expire time, mouse wheel lock didn’t made it in the first beta because lack of time but they will follow in one of the next 2.2 betas.

To see a demo you can go to the Pano2VR Flash tour example and you can download the new beta version as always from the Pano2VR download page.

For more detailed information and comments please visit the forum.

This latest tutorial takes you through the steps of exporting a partial panorama to QuickTime, Flash, and image formats. Plus I touch on what can be done with non-panoramic images.

Exporting Partial Panoramas

Because the Flash 10 plugin is out and Pano2VR 2.2 is still 1-2 weeks away I decided to release a Pano2VR 2.1.1 with Flash 10 export. Flash 10 supports perspective texture mapping so all the “waviness” of Flash 8/Flash 9 panoramas is gone.

For the moment cylindrical panoramas and video are missing for Flash 10 and I also changed from Flash CS3 to Flex to generate the template code so not everything is tested yet, like for example the embedding into other movies. For that reason you need to enable Flash 10 export in the settings to use it. After that you will see also a “Flash 10″ option.

The generated Flash files works with Flash 9 and Flash 10. The new “waveless” rendering is automatically activated if the client has Flash 10 installed.

Other things change with Pano2VR 2.1.1:

• Proxy icons in Mac OS X
• “Recent files” in Skin editor
• Norwegian translation
• Bug in viewing parameters for partial panos fixed
• Bug with undo in Skin editor fixed

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

For feedback please visist the forum.

Just a quick note: I released Object2VR beta2 two days ago where I fixed several bugs in the light table and various other places so beta2 has no new features, just some fixed bugs.

I just released the first beta of Object2VR a multi platform object movie creator.
The key features are:

• Support for single and multi row object movies
• QuickTime VR export
• Flash 8 and Flash 9 export
• Skins with Skin editor for Flash 9
• Zoom support in QuickTime and Flash
• Progressive download in Flash
• Html templates
• Runs on Windows (>=Windows 2000), Mac OS X (>= 10.4) and Linux.

Known issues and features still missing:

• Import of QuickTime VR files
• Import image strips
• Hotspots
• View states

You can download this version from the Object2VR download page.