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Integrated Web Server

martin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:50:27 +0000

Just published a new tip covering the Integrated Web Server built in to Object2VR and Pano2VR. The tip explains the settings and how to use it so you can display the Flash or HTML5 outputs on devices connected to the same network without having to upload to a server.

The tip is under General Tips or can be found Here.

Pano2VR 3.1.2 released

thomas — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:27:03 +0000

We are happy to release a new version of Pano2VR. This is mainly a bug fix release. You can find the complete list of changes here. Two new features are a “Show in Explorer/Finder” in the context menu (right click) for all labels with file names. We also changed almost all dialogs to be non modal so you can now open more then one output or project window at the same time.
The file path handling has also been changed and the “base path” has been removed. All files are now relative to the project file.
To download this release please visit the updated Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR in the Mac App Store

thomas — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:45:44 +0000

After some back an forth with Apple, Pano2VR is now finally in the Mac App Store!

The current version in the Mac App Store differs from the normal Mac version in regards of file handling and other smaller changes required by Apple. Also the droplet feature is missing. Our plan is to sync the versions with the next minor release.

Setting Up Radar Beams

martin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:36:47 +0000

Just added three new tips covering how to setup radar beams in a virtual tour.
Each tip has its own video as well as projects you can download.
The tips are in the Tips section of Pano2VR and can also be found here:

Radar: Point Hotspots

Radar: Area Hotspots

Radar: Beam Movement

Pano2VR 3.1.0 released

thomas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:57:17 +0000

We are happy to release a new version of Pano2VR. While looking at the features we decided that this justifies a minor release number instead of just a 3.0.1 release. Of course this moved back the planned features for 3.1 to 3.2 as you can see in the updated roadmap.

The major new features are WebGL support for the HTML5 output so now Firefox >=4.0 and Chrome >=9.0 are also supported. Another highlight is the built-in web server to simplify local testing.

Here is the complete list of the new features:

Built-in web server
HTML5 WebGL support (Firefox, Chrome)
HTML5 Gyro support
HTML templates now use SWFObject
HTML5 multi-touch support for Android 3.1 and Blackberry Playbook
Hebrew and Greek translations

There have been also a lot of bug fixes. For instance, Flash panoramas work again in Flash 9/CS4.
We also did a lot of the improvements in every other part of the software.

To download this release please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 released

thomas — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:29:25 +0000

We are very proud to announce the final release of Pano2VR 3.0 after almost 8 months in public beta. The major new features compared to 2.3 are:

HTML5 export (iPhone/iPad)
Multi Resolution
Transitions
Photoshop PSB/PSD and BigTIFF support
SVG/SWF objects in the Skin

We also did a lot of the improvements in every other part of the software. We like to thank everyone who beta tested and helped us to improved Pano2VR with their bug reports and suggestions.

To demonstrate some of the key features we created a short video:

As Pano2VR 3 is a major new release, this is for the first time a paid upgrade, however if you bought Pano2VR 2 since 1.1.2010 the upgrade is free. To buy or upgrade your license please visit the license page.

To show you some of those new features we updated the examples page. You can also use the iPhone friendly shortcut: http://ggnome.com/3.

To download this release please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta5 released

thomas — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:22:41 +0000

We just released a new beta for Pano2VR. This is mainly a bug fix release but also some new features have been added.
With this beta the preview image is saved along with the project so the “resizing” process can be avoided if the image has not changed. In combination with the experimental feature “smart loading” (you have to enable this in the settings) you can open gigapixel projects almost instantly.
Skins now support masking for containers and we added new actions that are triggered during multi resolution tile download. You can find the complete list of changes in the change log.

To download this beta please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta4 released

thomas — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:27:16 +0000

I am happy to announce a new beta version for Pano2VR. This time we had a really long bug list so it took a while. As I wanted to also fix the Photoshop BigTIFF bug on Mac OS, Adobe confirmed the bug in Photoshop but they have no work around and will not fix it until CS6. So we needed a new solution to import gigapixel images and as Adobe finally published the PSD/PSB format we went with that. Starting with this beta you can load/save PSD/PSB files in Pano2VR.

Another new feature in this beta are margins in the Skin. Margins allow you to place skin elements (for example the map) outside of the panorama. Martin was kind enough to produce a tip over the weekend to show margins in action.

To see the full list of changes, please go to the change log. To download this beta please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta3 released

thomas — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:34:42 +0000

Pano2VR 3.0 beta3 is mainly a bug fix release. You can find most of the changes in the bug tracker change log.
In addition a lot of smaller things have been improved, like the transitions for area hotspots.
To download Pano2VR 3.0 beta3 please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta2 released

thomas — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:25:42 +0000

This beta took an unusually long time to get released but I hope it was worth it. This beta is now (almost) feature complete and there will not be any new major additions to Pano2VR 3.0. The new features for beta2 are:

Transitions between panoramas in virtual tours
Flash files within the skin
External images and SWFs within a skin (Youtube, etc.)

You can see some of those new features in this virtual tour.
In addition to that, a lot of areas have been improved and a lot of bugs have been fixed. I just want to highlight a few:

Flash multi res: Now pixel perfect tile alignment and adjustable bias for level switching
Regular expressions to address multiple skin elements
Clean up of the Flash settings
HTML5: Flash fallback in the HTML template
HTML5: A lot of bug fixes in the player and skin
Switch to Qt 4.7.0 so a lot of annoying GUI bugs on the Mac should be solved

To better organize the future developments we now use a new bug tracking system and we decided to make it public. So in the future you can just a have look at http://ggnome.com/bt and you can see all the changes between releases and you can also see what we are up to.
Finally I like to thank Martin (aka Hopki) for his great help in the last weeks. We are really happy to have him on the team.

To download Pano2VR 3.0 beta2 please visit the Pano2VR download page.