I almost forgot to blog about it, but on Wednesday I released beta4 (Just if you wonder about beta3: Because of a major bug in the packaging it only survived several hours and was pulled back).

New features compared to beta2 are:

• Flash 9/10: Domain lock + expiration date
• Skin: “On Init” action trigger, “Change Text” action
• Skin: Prefix “%” to address ALL elements with the same ID (for example to hide all hotspots)
• Skin: Change/Set/Toggle position allow a reference ID instead of a position
• Skin Editor: Extra tab for actions + scroll bars in the properties window
• Skin Editor: “Splitter” between tree and editor to create more space, if needed
• Automatic check for updates
• Bug fix: Background color in “transformation” works again

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

Hi!

All tutorials for creating hotspots, the new way, are up! Although they are not polished productions, I do hope they offer some good ol’ fashion help:

Part 1: Introduction to area and point hotspots

Part 2: Using a hotspot template

Part 3: Using multiple hotspot templates

Part 4: Using hotspot proxies

The latest beta version (2.2) of Pano2VR included a wonderfully updated feature: adding hotspots with the added ability to edit the hotspots via the skin editor. I put together a few quick tutorials to get you started and I hope you’ll find them helpful. Another tutorial, that shows more advanced actions/features should materialize very soon.

Here are the links:

Part 1 – Basics

Part 2 – More Basics

UPDATE

Part 3 is now online and explains how to create multiple hotspot images in the skin editor and then how to add them in the hotspot editor.

Coming up next, in part 4, will be tutorial on how to use hotspot proxies, so stay tuned!

I just released Pano2VR 2.2 beta2. This release is mostly a bugfix release. I hope I managed to fix all bugs the have been found so far.

The following issues should be fixed:

• Internal link to cylindrical panoramas should now work correctly
• “Wobble” effect in Flash 10 fixed
• Usage of the default view for internal linked panoramas
• Skin: “Mouse leave” event is called on hotspot destruction
• Skin editor: Better handling of the active element
• Actionscript: Cleanup should work (only if there is no skin!)
• The mask is again applied correctly
• Hotspot URL has been called also for custom hotspots
• Mac: Values haven’t been always saved in the point hotspot window

Additional features are:

• Skin: even more actions like “change angle”
• Internal cursor used for panorama links with area hotspots
• Flash: New option “lock mouse wheel”
• “don’t process output” option in batch processing

I also updated the demo tour to better show the new features of Pano2VR 2.2.

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