Demo page for future client.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:23 pm
This nonprofit organization contacted us a week ago and asked if we could create virtual tour to be integrated into this website.
Background.
This is the Western Cowboy's approach to Hollywood's Hall of Fame. Brass plaques are inlaid into the Fort Worth Stockyards side walks. For example you will find a plaque for Roy Rogers and Red Steagall along with other prominent people who helped build our Cowboy heritage. If you have speakers you might turn the volume down... Willy Nelson plays loud and clear.
http://www.360texas.com/virtualtour/tex ... change.htm
Criteria is simple: large aerial maps. Clickable links to popup single popups for the brass plaques (116 of them installed... 600 more to go). 10 panoramas. Page theme is to be like the main site.
We created a small map page with 2 sample popup flash panoramas and 1 point of interest popup. Sort of shows how the virtual tour is to be implemented.
Aerial maps are free from our Central North Texas Council of Governments. I think Google gets their maps from CNTCOG. The map's width is framed for 1024 x 768 monitors.
All the artwork was provided by our possible client.
What does not work. The small menu in the page upper right corner of the page.
What does work - 2 Popup panoramas, and 1 point of interest link.
The panoramas are Canon 5d Sigma 8 f4, 4 shot RAW, converted to TIF's and stitched with PTgui 3.0.8 6000 x 3000 using PTgui, TIF, LZW compression. Lanscoz interpolator and Ptgui blender with PTgui (panotools). 8 bit image. Final stitch TIF image was around 50mb. A no compressed TIF was about 97mb
Pano2qtvr - I tried cubing the image so I could insert the tripod cap. Apparantly Pano2qtvr did not like the LZW compressed TIF. So resaved it to a BMP file and completed the tripod cap and converted the cube faces back to a sphere. Note.. this new file was 5998 x 2499 and not 6000 x 2500.
Pano2qtvr Flash - I finally got these 50mb files Flash conversion down to 1.24mb.
Results:
SETTINGS TAB
Cube face Optimal 626 for FOV 84, 70, 60
Subdivisions 5x5
Quality 45
Window 700 x 437 (don't ask.. I don't know why I selected these)
Enabled: Preview track, grayscale, Protection, Optimization, Quality LOW for motion, Static MAX
Gamma 1
Interpolator Spline36
FLASH TAB
1 large BMP file,
Frame rate default of 50 frames per second FPS,
Quality 9
SELECT Auto decrease when moving and dynamic stage rendering quality and Scaling with Stage.
Interaction : default slider position Movement MASS simulations
Autorotate Delay 5 s
Speed 1
No Controller file
FLASH PRELOADER TAB
Preloader Enabled
BAR AND TEXT default
Preload 350 x 200 pixel Splash image CENTER
Issues:
When paning around I sometimes see the cube face edges blink on/off.. they are small white trace lines. I have seen edge traces before with some other software so I think these thin white lines are cube face joins. I do not observe these edge lines when viewing the panoramas at full screen.
IE 6 with original Virtual Machine my browser hangs after viewing panoramas. I am using standard 'HELPERS' and the IE 6 EOLAS p2q_embed_object.js as created with Pano2qtvr Version 1.5.0Beta9.
We should learn if we got the contract by 9 January. Client must obtain funding approval before award.
Constructive feedback comments here in the forum are most welcome. This is a work in progress and not a final design. We are focusing on FLASH only panoramas.
http://www.360texas.com/virtualtour/tex ... change.htm
Background.
This is the Western Cowboy's approach to Hollywood's Hall of Fame. Brass plaques are inlaid into the Fort Worth Stockyards side walks. For example you will find a plaque for Roy Rogers and Red Steagall along with other prominent people who helped build our Cowboy heritage. If you have speakers you might turn the volume down... Willy Nelson plays loud and clear.
http://www.360texas.com/virtualtour/tex ... change.htm
Criteria is simple: large aerial maps. Clickable links to popup single popups for the brass plaques (116 of them installed... 600 more to go). 10 panoramas. Page theme is to be like the main site.
We created a small map page with 2 sample popup flash panoramas and 1 point of interest popup. Sort of shows how the virtual tour is to be implemented.
Aerial maps are free from our Central North Texas Council of Governments. I think Google gets their maps from CNTCOG. The map's width is framed for 1024 x 768 monitors.
All the artwork was provided by our possible client.
What does not work. The small menu in the page upper right corner of the page.
What does work - 2 Popup panoramas, and 1 point of interest link.
The panoramas are Canon 5d Sigma 8 f4, 4 shot RAW, converted to TIF's and stitched with PTgui 3.0.8 6000 x 3000 using PTgui, TIF, LZW compression. Lanscoz interpolator and Ptgui blender with PTgui (panotools). 8 bit image. Final stitch TIF image was around 50mb. A no compressed TIF was about 97mb
Pano2qtvr - I tried cubing the image so I could insert the tripod cap. Apparantly Pano2qtvr did not like the LZW compressed TIF. So resaved it to a BMP file and completed the tripod cap and converted the cube faces back to a sphere. Note.. this new file was 5998 x 2499 and not 6000 x 2500.
Pano2qtvr Flash - I finally got these 50mb files Flash conversion down to 1.24mb.
Results:
SETTINGS TAB
Cube face Optimal 626 for FOV 84, 70, 60
Subdivisions 5x5
Quality 45
Window 700 x 437 (don't ask.. I don't know why I selected these)
Enabled: Preview track, grayscale, Protection, Optimization, Quality LOW for motion, Static MAX
Gamma 1
Interpolator Spline36
FLASH TAB
1 large BMP file,
Frame rate default of 50 frames per second FPS,
Quality 9
SELECT Auto decrease when moving and dynamic stage rendering quality and Scaling with Stage.
Interaction : default slider position Movement MASS simulations
Autorotate Delay 5 s
Speed 1
No Controller file
FLASH PRELOADER TAB
Preloader Enabled
BAR AND TEXT default
Preload 350 x 200 pixel Splash image CENTER
Issues:
When paning around I sometimes see the cube face edges blink on/off.. they are small white trace lines. I have seen edge traces before with some other software so I think these thin white lines are cube face joins. I do not observe these edge lines when viewing the panoramas at full screen.
IE 6 with original Virtual Machine my browser hangs after viewing panoramas. I am using standard 'HELPERS' and the IE 6 EOLAS p2q_embed_object.js as created with Pano2qtvr Version 1.5.0Beta9.
We should learn if we got the contract by 9 January. Client must obtain funding approval before award.
Constructive feedback comments here in the forum are most welcome. This is a work in progress and not a final design. We are focusing on FLASH only panoramas.
http://www.360texas.com/virtualtour/tex ... change.htm