What they will be doing there, with their strange mechanical devices, no one really knows for sure – unless they attend The International Panoramic Photography Conference. We gnomes will be amongst these good folk and we look forward to seeing you there!

• Adding a controller and image (or logo) to your project
• Building a custom controller
• Building a loading bar with text

The only issue is QTVR & QuickTime 7 support because Snow Leopard by default only comes with QuickTime X and QuickTime X can not play QTVRs.

You have to manually install QuickTime 7 to have the proper player, otherwise you get a “Unsupported Format” error message. After you install QuickTime 7 you can choose which QuickTime version should be used to open the .mov file.

To install QuickTime 7 you need to hit “Customize” during installation and check “QuickTime 7″. You can also install QuickTime 7 afterwards by inserting the Snow Leopard disk and go to the “Optional Installs” package. In any case QTVR will still work in the browser because the browser plugin is still QuickTime 7.

For more info also look at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3678

Obvious side note: Maybe now is a good time to switch from QuickTime to Flash because only Steve knows how long it takes before they drop QTVR entirely.

• Sound effects in the skin
• Image caching for faster creation
• Skin – Start Autorotate action: Speed can be defined
• Bugfix: Blank images in light table

The reason why I didn’t post this here early was that 6 hrs later my girlfriend and I where heading to the hospital to give birth to Emma, our newest addition to the Gnome family.

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.

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.)

The patch tool lets you non-destructively extract a portion of your image (for instance, removing the tripod and/or photographer from the image) to be retouched in an image editing software and then import the retouched image back into to Pano2VR to patch over the existing image’s problem area. A very handy tool! 

Download Pano2VR 2.1 Beta.

Familiarize yourself of the handiness of the new Patch Tool (tutorial).