Notes from a Gnome

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.

Arizona

karyn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:30:58 +0000

In a few weeks, in the beautiful southwestern American city of Tucson, Arizona, something interesting will occur; men and women with odd-looking photographic equipment will be seen roaming this area.

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!

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.

Object2VR 2.0 beta6 released

thomas — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:52:19 +0000

I just released a new beta version of Object2VR. To work with larger projects (>1000 images) I added 64 bit versions for Windows and Mac OS X.

For the Mac release: Because Carbon doesn’t support 64bit I also provide a Cocoa build that has an Intel 32bit & 64bit and PowerPC universal binary. You need at least Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to use the Cocoa build.

Some new features are:

Better handling of larger projects
Updated Skin editor
Skin:Viewer Mode to switch between turn & move mode
A lot of bug fixes

You can download this version (as always) from the Object2VR download page.

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.

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.

Pano2VR 2.3 beta 6 released

thomas — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:51:09 +0000

I just released Pano2VR 2.3 beta6 which is mainly a bugfix release for beta5.

The changes are:

Switch back to Qt 4.5.3 because of OpenGL errors in Windows
Bugfix: Flat images work now correct with hotspots
Bugfix: Flat images showed sometimes a thin black line
Bugfix: Skin: Endless loop (loop=0) changed volume
Change of cylindrical FoV in viewing parameters works now faster

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