Hi, just purchased Pano2VR version 2.3.1, watched the instruction video's for hotspots, but have a problem that is not explained....
Imagine the following situation:
Pano1 - at a corner of a street.
Pano2 - in the middle of one of the streets that Pano 1 is looking into. This Pano 2 is facing a nice playing ground.
I have created a hotspot in Pano 1, with the description 'Playground', and referring to Pano2.swf
The other way around, I have created a hotspot in Pano2, that should move the user back to Pano1, so the referral is to Pano1.swf.
The problem: if I start Pano1, I can click on the hotspot to Pano2 and everything works, so I end up in Pano2.swf. However, when I am in Pano2.swf, and click on the hotspot to go back to Pano1.swf, it doesn't work.... !!??
The other way around the same: when I start Pano2.swf, I can click on the hotspot and I go to Pano1.swf. But again, being in Pano1 and clicking on the hotspot to go back to Pano2, it doesn't work...... !!??
Hope you understand my problem, and can help me.
Thanks in advance!!
Help please! Hotspot problem
Hi Qique,
Sorry, can't offer any help as I'm a new user myself.
I'm just watching your post with interest as I too have followed the tutorials to the letter (or so I think), but can't get my hotspots links to work.
I'll keeping banging my head against the wall and if anything cracks I'll let you know.
While I'm here I have to say what a great bit of software. I can't wait to make it sing and dance for me like it appears to for everyone else. Plus what a great forum, nice to see soo many people helping each other out. Even though many are in the same competative market.
Cheers guys, keep it up...
Sorry, can't offer any help as I'm a new user myself.
I'm just watching your post with interest as I too have followed the tutorials to the letter (or so I think), but can't get my hotspots links to work.
I'll keeping banging my head against the wall and if anything cracks I'll let you know.
While I'm here I have to say what a great bit of software. I can't wait to make it sing and dance for me like it appears to for everyone else. Plus what a great forum, nice to see soo many people helping each other out. Even though many are in the same competative market.
Cheers guys, keep it up...
Hi Sharky,
Hope my post will help us
I hope somebody will help us soon. I think it is something very basic we are just missing, but I can't find it anywhere in the documents/tutorials.
I am hoping that somebody will help us n00bs soon
Maybe there is a garden gnome
that is piscking it up?
Hope so.........
Hope my post will help us
I hope somebody will help us soon. I think it is something very basic we are just missing, but I can't find it anywhere in the documents/tutorials.
I am hoping that somebody will help us n00bs soon
Maybe there is a garden gnome
that is piscking it up?Hope so.........
Hi Qique,
SORTED!!!
Sooo simple. All down to a continuity error on my part.
I missed that the .swf file has a default "_out" as a suffix. Doh!
So I had a mis-match with what I was putting in my hotspot URL to the actual filename.
Renamed all my files, and now my 11 room house tour works flawlessly.
I've also been into the Pan2VR default settings and changed the .swf file suffix to be blank. So no more file errors in the future.
So, no gnomes needed this time.
Hope this helps you too.
SORTED!!!
Sooo simple. All down to a continuity error on my part.
I missed that the .swf file has a default "_out" as a suffix. Doh!
So I had a mis-match with what I was putting in my hotspot URL to the actual filename.
Renamed all my files, and now my 11 room house tour works flawlessly.
I've also been into the Pan2VR default settings and changed the .swf file suffix to be blank. So no more file errors in the future.
So, no gnomes needed this time.
Hope this helps you too.
Soo happy for you Sharky, but this doesn't help me .... My filenames are OK..... 
Let me explain what I have done:
1. generation of Pano file (I do that with PTGui). Let's for example call that file Pano1.tif
2. open that panofile in Pano2VR
3. click on the edit hotspots button
4. click on TAB 'Hot SPOTS'
5. move to the area where I want the hotspot, and double click
6. add the fields Title, and fill in the name of the second Pano as Url (in this example Pano2.swf)
7. generate the Pano1.swf file.
After that, the same for Pano2.tif and that will result in the Pano2.swf file.
Again, if I now would open Pano1.swf, I see the hotspot, and when I click on it it will move me to Pano2. However, being in Pano2, I can click on the hotspot back to Pano1, but it is not taking me back.
I have tried the above also with one step extra between 3 and 4 by clicking on the 'Enable' checkbox hence generating the png file. But also this doesn't work.
Hope you're able to compare this detailed workflow with what you're doing and maybe we can detect the flaw in my flow.....
Thanks in advance for help
Regards, Rik
Let me explain what I have done:
1. generation of Pano file (I do that with PTGui). Let's for example call that file Pano1.tif
2. open that panofile in Pano2VR
3. click on the edit hotspots button
4. click on TAB 'Hot SPOTS'
5. move to the area where I want the hotspot, and double click
6. add the fields Title, and fill in the name of the second Pano as Url (in this example Pano2.swf)
7. generate the Pano1.swf file.
After that, the same for Pano2.tif and that will result in the Pano2.swf file.
Again, if I now would open Pano1.swf, I see the hotspot, and when I click on it it will move me to Pano2. However, being in Pano2, I can click on the hotspot back to Pano1, but it is not taking me back.
I have tried the above also with one step extra between 3 and 4 by clicking on the 'Enable' checkbox hence generating the png file. But also this doesn't work.
Hope you're able to compare this detailed workflow with what you're doing and maybe we can detect the flaw in my flow.....
Thanks in advance for help
Regards, Rik
Oeffff, finally got it sorted..... well at least I think I have
After creation of the pano's (.swf files), these were always opened with Opera, so that you immediately see how it looks, and can test functionality.
If I open the .SWF files with my standard browser (Safari on my iMac), the hotspot clicking back and forth is OK!
Next problem is that hotspotting to a URL is still not working... Will start digging into that now.
Regards, Rik
After creation of the pano's (.swf files), these were always opened with Opera, so that you immediately see how it looks, and can test functionality.
If I open the .SWF files with my standard browser (Safari on my iMac), the hotspot clicking back and forth is OK!
Next problem is that hotspotting to a URL is still not working... Will start digging into that now.
Regards, Rik