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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A new tutorial for HTML export is now available.

Two skin editor tutorial are now available: The basics are covert in Part 1 and the little more advanced stuff in Part 2.

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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Just before the end of the year I changed my plan for beta 4 and added panoramic video support. You can now “inject” a video stream as the panoramic image. You can see a demo of the functionality here and here. Thx to Andras Frenyo for the new timelapse example! The instructions to create and inject the video can be found here here.

Other changes in beta4:
* fixed partial cylinders in Flash 8/9
* fixed bug in the skin editor tree view
* Drag & Drop in the skin editor is now working in Mac OS 10.5/Leopard
* Droplets are now accepting folders
* fixed error reading some QTVRs
* new batch mode in “Tools/Batch Processing” as a workaround for limited Windows (Vista) Drag & Drop
* fixed bug for HTML in hotspot text
* additional actions in skin editor (default view, video functions)
* with a company license you can now disable the “About Pano2VR Player” in the context menu.

Finally I like to thank you all for your support in 2007 and I wish you a happy new year!

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