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Pano2VR 2.3.4 released

thomas — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:34:03 +0000

I just released Pano2VR 2.3.4. This is mostly a bugfix release.

The following things have been changed/fixed:

Bugfix: Save as default didn’t work on Macs
Bugfix: The input dialog uses the last used image folder
Bugfix: Flash tour: Panoramas had not been fully loaded if the sub tiling didn’t match
Russian translation updated

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

Pano2VR spotting

karyn — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:01:15 +0000

Check it out…

CNN.com captures the Soccer City Stadium with Pano2VR for the 2010 World Cup.

Pano2VR: Viewing Parameters Tip

karyn — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:58:55 +0000

Right-click in the preview window

Here’s a quick Pano2VR tip for you. If you have output formats in the output section, right click within the preview window in the viewing parameters section, to reveal a menu that lets you choose the viewing parameters window size. So, if your QuickTime output settings have a window size of 640×480, you will see this option in the right-click menu. This should help you make more accurate default views.

Pano2VR 2.3.3 released

thomas — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:55:31 +0000

I just released Pano2VR 2.3.3. This is mostly a bugfix release.

The following things have been changed/fixed:

Flat Images – Flash export: Option to allow visible background
Bugfix: MacOS: OpenEXR/Radiance HDR added to the supported formats for droplets
Bugfix: Distortion while mouse wheel zoom without mass simulation
Bugfix: Skin Editor: Copy & Paste of multiple elements duplicated the active element
Bugfix: Sound editor: Visual glitch with cubic panoramas

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

Pano2VR 2.3.2 released

thomas — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:31 +0000

I just released Pano2VR 2.3.2. This is mostly a bugfix release.

The following things have been changed/fixed:

Skin: Actions for Enter/Exit Fullscreen.
Flash export: Created a separate “Context Menu” box.
Bugfix: Flash: Slow resizing of the window.
Bugfix: Flash Flat Image: Fix for large values of “Minimum FoV”.
Bugfix: Mac OS X Cocoa: Crash on exit if a non English translation was used.

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

Updated Droplet Tutorial

karyn — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:27:21 +0000

We have posted an updated droplet tutorial which includes a short bit on batch processing as well. You can check it out here.

The documentation on how to create and droplets has also been updated.

The Flat Image

karyn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:12:32 +0000

Version 2.3.0 of Pano2VR gave us the option to use a flat image (or a non-distorted image) as an input type and then export it as a Flash movie. Earlier, this was done through the Cylinder input type, setting the field of view angle and making sure that 3D distortion was turned off. The Flat input type now takes care of this for us. Sweet! Check out the new video and text tutorials:

Video

Text

Pano2VR 2.3.1 released

thomas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:16:51 +0000

I just released Pano2VR 2.3.1. This is mostly a bugfix release.
I also added 64 bit versions for Windows and Mac.
For the Mac release: Because Carbon doesn’t support 64bit I also provide a Cocoa build that has a Intel 32bit & 64bit and PowerPC universal binary. You need at least Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to use the Cocoa build.

The following things have been changed/fixed:

Flash export: You can add your link in the Flash context menu (only with a company license)
Translations added/updated (Portuguese, French, German, Polish, Farsi)
Output folders are created if they don’t exist
Default output for empty projects is now the Documents folder
Better handling of large images in “Trial” mode
Bugfix: Flash: Mininal FoV works again
Bugfix: Patch Tool: Patches for 8 bit images are now fully opaque

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

Pano2VR 2.3.0 released

thomas — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:52:55 +0000

We are happy to announce that we finally released Pano2VR 2.3.0. If you didn’t follow the 2.3 beta here is a list of the major new features since 2.2:

Background, directional and effect sound within the panorama
Effect sounds and sound control in the Skin
Read/Write OpenEXR and Radiance .HDR files
Support for flat (non distorted) images

Of course there have been a lot of other smaller changes. You can find the full list in the Pano2VR change log.

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

Thumbnail Images

karyn — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:24:32 +0000

There are times when you might want to make a thumbnail image of a panorama (like when embedding the image in a webpage). Pano2VR has this nifty little tool that lets you quickly output a thumbnail image of your panorama.

Just use the Transformation output format and choose which type of thumbnail you would like (thumbnail examples can be seen here) to output.