SOLVED - Live Tour Image/Patch Replacement?
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:44 am
Hi,
I have a customer that was sponsored by Nike. Nike lost their most recent bid so now they are going to be sponsored by Adidas. The exchange doesn't take place for another couple of months so Nike is still their sponsor. I have already created the tour. I created a patch over a Nike banner thinking that I would be able to swap out the patch later on without having to go through the entire build and re-upload process ( I understand that I can set ftp to only overwrite newer files )......soooooooo, I created a patch as a placeholder over the Nike banner and my thought was that I could:
1. Name the patch banner-active.psd (or whatever extension you selected in Pano2vr)
2. When the time comes, download the patch banner-active.psd from the tour and open it if Photoshop
3. Replace the Nike banner with the Adidas banner
4. Save the patch with the same name and extension and re-upload it to server overwriting the original patch file..... voila!
In a perfect "all about me world", this would have worked, but it doesn't
The file name is the same, the patch is the same size dimensionally so I can only surmise that the file is the wrong kb size or that it's because of some meta data that is not matching up with the original file info in xml or wherever the data is stored.
Is this possible? I know that I can create a hotspot and portal an external image file from the skin to it......but have you ever tried to line up an external image in the skin editor to perfectly fit a dimension that is not squared and is skewed up, down, left, right? The attempts to rotate perspective, X, Y and Z axis take FOREVER and sometimes spending more than three hours on something as simple of a concept as this just doesn't feel like a win win
Anyone have a solution or suggestions? Thanks!
I have a customer that was sponsored by Nike. Nike lost their most recent bid so now they are going to be sponsored by Adidas. The exchange doesn't take place for another couple of months so Nike is still their sponsor. I have already created the tour. I created a patch over a Nike banner thinking that I would be able to swap out the patch later on without having to go through the entire build and re-upload process ( I understand that I can set ftp to only overwrite newer files )......soooooooo, I created a patch as a placeholder over the Nike banner and my thought was that I could:
1. Name the patch banner-active.psd (or whatever extension you selected in Pano2vr)
2. When the time comes, download the patch banner-active.psd from the tour and open it if Photoshop
3. Replace the Nike banner with the Adidas banner
4. Save the patch with the same name and extension and re-upload it to server overwriting the original patch file..... voila!
In a perfect "all about me world", this would have worked, but it doesn't
The file name is the same, the patch is the same size dimensionally so I can only surmise that the file is the wrong kb size or that it's because of some meta data that is not matching up with the original file info in xml or wherever the data is stored.
Is this possible? I know that I can create a hotspot and portal an external image file from the skin to it......but have you ever tried to line up an external image in the skin editor to perfectly fit a dimension that is not squared and is skewed up, down, left, right? The attempts to rotate perspective, X, Y and Z axis take FOREVER and sometimes spending more than three hours on something as simple of a concept as this just doesn't feel like a win win
Anyone have a solution or suggestions? Thanks!