As announced at this year’s PanoTools meeting in Prague, Pano2VR 2.1 Beta is now available. The latest feature addition is the Patch Tool.

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).

After 9 months in beta we are proud to announce the final version of Pano2VR 2.0.

Pano2VR is a converter to create Flash 8 & 9, QuickTime VR and thumbnail files from panoramic images.

The built-in hotspot and skin editors allow you to add interactive elements to the panoramas. The automatically created, fully customizable HTML files simplify the publishing. Pano2VR can also convert between 8, 16 and 32 bit TIFF equirectangular and cubic formats to allow retouching.

Pano2VR runs on Windows (>=2000), Mac OS X (>=10.3.9) and Linux.
The user interface is translated into German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian and Chinese with more languages to come.

To get an idea about Pano2VR you can watch the getting started video.

For further information, feedback, rants and raves please visit the forum.

To download the latest version go to the Pano2VR download page.

The new features:

• Improved skins and skin editor with new elements, actions, modifiers, and loading elements
• Subtiles for Flash 9 export
• User interface in German and Simplified Chinese
• Many bug fixes

Click here to find out more.

I just released Pano2VR beta6. The new features are:

• 16bit/float(32bit) TIFF support for remapping
• Save deflate compressed TIFFs (option in settings)
• Flash 9: custom mouse cursors
• Flash 9: changeable text & background color for hotspot lables
• Flash 9: option to disable mouse/keyboard

You can download the new version from Pano2VR download page.

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I am happy to announce the new beta5. The main new feature is the HTML export tab. Instead of a simple text replacement engine as in Pano2QTVR I created a much more powerful tool for HTML export. The engine works similar to PHP with embed code in the document, but you can also create your own input fields within Pano2VR. The engine uses Javascript as the underlying scripting language. Some examples for the HTML export are included with the standard installer. Particularly the example for SPi-V demonstrate the power and the possibilities of this approach. It should be easy to adapt this template for other players like the Flashpanoramas player.
The QTVR and Flash templates allow to change the different colors within the HTML file, show or hide the user data table, and include the option to embed background sound.

Other changes with beta5:

• new “anchor” control
• option to disable anti aliasing for remapping
• option to edit each separate cube face in the hotspot editor to save memory
• cube face export in the “remapping” output with different naming schemes and quality settings per cube face
• many bugs fixes

The new version can be downloaded from here.

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