I haven't used Pano2VR for some years, I've been dong other things
I'm starting up shooting panoramas again with a new camera and fisheye. I'm quite excited to start using the E-M1 as it has a HDR mode that will take 7 shots 2ev apart with one press of the shutter, amazing! And I can control it through wifi from my iPhone or iPad, which makes checking the focus very simple, like having a huge viewfinder in your hand!I've kept Pano2VR up to date and have upgraded with every new version. As well as other tools like PhotomatixPro and PTGuiPro. I still regularly use PTGui to stitch partial panos shot hand-held, it's very good and fast for this.
On my own website I had a gallery of all my panoramas and I used to simply embed the single .mov file, assuming people already had Apple's QT pluggin. I had some JS to make them full-screen. This is all very old school now, and doesn't work with handhelds, etc. Mac OSX won't even play these QTVR .mov files anymore, which is a bit sad I think. So my old site no longer seems to work on a lot of people's browsers. I think the HTML5 output from Pano2VR is great for using on any device.
I've realised that in the past I mostly created links on a web page which opened a pano's Pano2VR html folder/files in a new window. All very straightforward.
What I'm not sure how to do is embed an auto rotating pano directly in a web page amongst other elements as it's not a single file like before... Hope someone can point me in the right direction?
There's a good example on the PTGui home page: https://www.ptgui.com/ You can go full screen and back without leaving the page.
I used to build websites in Adobe GoLive, which still works on my Mac!! But is abandoned now, and I can't really remember how to to use it
So I've hunted around for a replacement. I'm trying out RapidWeaver for now. It's very quick and simple to create a basic collection of pages, everything like all the menus are created and updated automatically, you just drag and drop pages around at will. Best of all you can change the whole look of the site instantly by clicking on a new theme or template. It means I can focus my time on shooting and creating the panoramas rather than web design. There are some really cool and very customisable themes to buy as well. Only runs on a Mac though as a desktop application, not a CMS like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla.The good thing about RapidWeaver is that it's also almost like a developers platform too, I can let it build and maintain the skeleton of my site, but in each page I am free to add my own html and JS, etc, so I can still be tinkering with code if I want too!
First effort here, very much a work in progress: http://www.fachwen.org/
Old site here: http://www.fachwen.org/qtvr/
(If I had the time it would be possible to build a RapidWeaver theme to exactly replicate the design of my old site)
Thanks in advance for any help with the embedding
