Garden Gnome Software

In our endeavour to provide our customers with the best support we have launched a YouTube channel which if you are on Face Book or Twitter you will have seen the announcements.
The Channel is for how to do specific tasks in our software and we hope you will find very useful.

So far we have three videos with lots more planned which can be found here:

Flash Global Security
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5S-s-QOAaY

Floating Tooltip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDS6CRGzA8s

Regular Expressions in the Skin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ee9Uuf5Knw

Hi
just added how to get the floating tooltip to work with Area and Point Hotspots:
http://youtu.be/w75Zsc314Do
Regards
Hopki

Pano2VR Beta 4 has a new feature called margins.
This enable you to set the panorama within margins in the skin editor so you can now have your map, information or thumbnails appear outside of the panorama.

Please see a video tip on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/MvRce3TZgjY

Due to a possible change in text boxes I have had to remake the Scaling Text Video on YouTube.
This means any links to it, or if you have embedded it in your own website will no longer work.

When Pano2VR V3 beta 5 is released, the Margins Video will also be remade, this is because of changes on how it will work, i.e visible margins in the skin editor.
Regards
Hopki

Hi
With the release of Pano2VR beta 5 I have changed the Margins video.
It now shows the visible lines in the Skin Editor window and although not mentioned the Full Screen html template has a borderless tick box to remove the close text normally found at the bottom of the page.
Please see Here.
Regards
Hopki

I have added a Format Text tip with video.
You can see it here: http://gardengnomesoftware.com/wiki/Formatting_Text
Regards
Hopki

Hi
I have added a new tip looking at the masking feature of containers.
The tip has links to the source files of the new Tour on our examples page as well as being able to download the video for those that can not access YouTube.
The Tip can be found Here.

Hi
Just added a tip covering the Cache Manifest file and how to use it.
It has two projects you can download, one for under 5MB files and one for above.
The tip can be found Here.
Hopki

Hi
I have just finished a series of radar tips, theses cover how to set up the radar beam in a multi node tour when using point or area hotspots.
I have also add one regarding beam movement to make it look a little nicer when moving from node to node. Hope you find them useful.

Radar: Point Hotspots

Radar: Area Hotspots

Radar: Beam Movement

Regards
Hopki

Hi All
I have added a new integrated web server tip explaining the settings and other cool things it can do.
Please see Here.
Regards
Hopki

Better late then never,
Forget to post it here, but a while back we released an Error Console Tip which is useful for finding faults when you have uploaded a tour and things stop working.
This was made because we get quite a few e-mails regarding hotspots which have stopped working, objects and panoramas just not opening and other problems that the console can help with.

Also,
The long awaited iBook Tip has also been released today which shows you have to add an Object or Panorama to an iBook.
It also includes a couple of iBook Widgets to practice with as well as the Simplex button set in png format as iBook does not support SVG graphics. Short link to the tip: iBook Widget.
Regards,
Hopki

Hi all,
Added a new tip, Using GoodReader for Offline Viewing. This lets you transfer your Object2VR or Pano2VR projects to your Apple iDevice.
The Tip can be found Here.
Regards,
Hopki

Hi all,
If you have not seen the blog post theres a new tip for using a text editor to change the colour of svg's as well as new tutorials.
Regards,
Hopki