I just released Pano2VR 2.3 beta6 which is mainly a bugfix release for beta5.

The changes are:

• Switch back to Qt 4.5.3 because of OpenGL errors in Windows
• Bugfix: Flat images work now correct with hotspots
• Bugfix: Flat images showed sometimes a thin black line
• Bugfix: Skin: Endless loop (loop=0) changed volume
• Change of cylindrical FoV in viewing parameters works now faster

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

I just released Pano2VR 2.3 beta5.

The new features/changes are:

• Flat (non distorted) images as input type and Flash output
• Flash 9 export: 4 different field of view modes (vFoV, hFoV, dFoV, Max)
• Support for tiled TIFFs as produced by PTStitcherNG
• New faster memory management for large images (~GPixel)
• Skin: Hand cursor as option per element
• Skin: Placeholders work also in value fields
• Cylindrical Horizontal FoV now also in “Viewing Parameters” window
• Update to Nokias Qt 4.6.0 which should be faster.

And of course bug fixes:

• Sound: Some bugs with looping fixed
• Odd PNG bug work around implemented
• Flash HTML “externalize” fixed
• Skin: Loading bar/OnLoaded works correct with external images

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

I just released Pano2VR 2.3 beta4 which is mainly a bugfix release for beta2 and beta3.

The changes are:

• Sound: External *.mp3 files
• Bugfix: Skin editor could not be launched from the Flash settings page
• Bugfix: Patch Tool ignore the image gamma

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

I just released Pano2VR 2.3 beta3 which is mainly a bugfix release for beta2.

The changes are:

• Settings: New option to ignore the Flash tile size limit. Use it at your own risk.
• Bugfix: Skin editor crashed sometimes when launched from the menu
• Bugfix: JPEG Slider was disable in export and convert

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

I just released a new beta version of Object2VR.

The new features are:

• Viewstates
• Skin – Images stored as JPEGs
• Hotspot reuse clarified
• Cursor navigation between images in the hotspot editor
• Smoother “Joystick” controller in Flash export
• Bugfix: Preview images for Flash export

Thanks to Mark Banas you can see a nice example of view states here.

You can download this version (as always) from the Object2VR download page.