Composite an image into a pano

AZ ChopperCam · Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:02 am

Forgive me if this is covered in a thread elsehwere. I searched briefly with no luck.

I shoot aerial panos with a helicopter. I have a client who has a parcel of land that is undeveloped in the pano. He has an architectural 3D rendering of a building he proposes to put on the piece of land. The rendering is .png format with alpha (32bit). I want to create a hotspot in the pano with a button that can be clicked to fade in the building where it will go on the parcel of land.

is this possible with some fancy hotspot/skin work?

Mnollock · Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:22 am

HI, I have attempted this myself, if you use a hotspot when you have your image visible, changing the view will result in some odd distortion as the hotspot doesn't change orientation the same as the pano. I managed to solve it by having an extra button which linked to a different pano with my alternative image in. Not ideal but it worked for what I wanted. Hopefully this will help.

regards.
Alan P.

AZ ChopperCam · Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:30 pm

I too tried the hotspot with image child and noticed that the image didn't remain locked to the panorama.

I figured a different linked .swf with the building in the scene was a way to go but I'd like to animate how the building comes in... maybe with a slight vertical descent eased in to position with a short fade in.

more research.......

rstone · Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:00 am

DJ, I asked this same question back in June and Thomas answered that it could not be done with Garden Gnome
software. The only person that I have seen do it is Tabb Firchau. The new link for the pano he did is here:
http://www.aerialpan.com/portfolio/aerial_popup/43

I was hoping Tabb might share some of that knowledge. Can't say I'd blame him if he didn't though... Maybe GGS
would consider adding that function in a future Pano2VR release?