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Happy Holidays from the Gnomes

thomas — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:04:54 +0000

Christmas and New Year are approaching fast and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continuing support.
A special thanks goes to all that contribute to the forum and help to translate our software into other languages.

The Gnomes wish you Happy Holidays and all the very best in 2012.

Garden Gnomes in Palmela

thomas — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:44:36 +0000

As you may have heard this year’s IVRPA conference will be in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 5th, 2011 and I will give a short talk about Pano2VR 3. As the whole Garden Gnome team will go to Portugal this may be a good opportunity to meet up with us and other panorama photographers.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Updated HTML5 Tutorial

karyn — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:08:13 +0000

Finally! We have updated our HTML5/CSS3 tutorial; both the written and the video.

HTML5 with CSS3 lets us display and interact with our panoramas without the need for Adobe Flash. This is especially useful if you wish to present your panoramas on any Apple touch device since they do not support Flash.

To the tutorial!

First Pano2VR 3.0 beta released

thomas — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:47:38 +0000

This is only a quick note that the first beta of Pano2VR 3.0 has been released. More information will follow soon.
The 2 big new features are HTML5 / CSS3 export and multi resolution in Flash.

The HTML5 player is a full feature panorama player, with point hotspots, full skin support (your Flash skins should work without changes), multiple resolutions for iPhone/iPad and Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) within the skin to use the high resolution display of the iPhone4.

The multi resolution export has built in image tiling, the tiles can be embedded within the SWF, and the tiles can be in different projections like  cubic, equirectangular, cylindrical, flat.

You can see demos of these new features here: http://ggnome.com/3 (iPhone friendly URL).

To import larger images also BigTIFF is now supported.
You can download free Photoshop import/export filters for BigTIFF here: (Windows/Mac). You have put those into your Photoshop plugin folder.

Pricing: The price is still 59 Euros (excl. VAT).
Upgrade: If you bought Pano2VR 2.x in 2010 the upgrade to 3.x is free, between 1.7. and 31.12.2009 it is 10 Euros (excl. VAT) and if you bought it before 1.7.2009 it is 20 Euros (excl. VAT).
This also means you can just buy Pano2VR 2.x (or upgrade from Pano2QTVR) and request your free key for Pano2VR 3.x.

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

New Sound Tutorials

karyn — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:17:42 +0000

Three new tutorials on adding sound to your panoramas using the sound editor have been added to our tutorial collection:

Adding Sounds (A basic how-to guide on using the Sound Editor)
About the Modes (A lesson in sound modes)
About the Settings (Describes all the settings)

As always, we hope you enjoy them and learn something new!

Thanks to Tucson2010

karyn — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:39:48 +0000

We gnomes want to extend a gracious thanks to the organizers of Tucson2010.

Their hard work was evident as the conference was well organized, educational and enjoyable. It was especially wonderful to meet and get to know many of our customers. Thank you for a successful conference!

Save as Default

karyn — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:43:02 +0000

Did you know you can change the project default settings in Pano2VR? If you have found a regular base of settings in your workflow, you can save these settings as the default using the Save as Default option in the File menu.

For example, if you regularly output to Flash with a window size of 800 x 400 and a frame rate of 25, you can have the Flash output with these settings ready every time you open a new project file. Or if your metadata is constant, like the Author and Copyright, you can add this to the User Data fields and save as part of the default settings.

Naturally, you can always revert back to the original system default settings by choosing Reset Default from the File menu.