Pano2VR 4 not aligning on Firefox n Explorer

Affendy · Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:19 pm

Hi all,
my HTML5 with "Flash fall back" panos work Greatl in iOS, safari and chrome but they don't align correctly or just don't play in Firefox. Here's the link
www.fnd-fnd.com/media/cordes

Is it Pano2VR Beta 4 ? Do I have to redo the Flash version apart ?
Thanks for ur inputs

Affendy

smooth · Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:27 pm

Displays fine for me in Firefox and Opera on PC.
Is your Firefox browser up to date?

Regards, Smooth

Affendy · Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:04 pm

Hi Smooth, hmm No problem on mine

but on some Firefox… they see only the bottom pix and some don't quite align on the seams ;-(
My panos have sort of parallax errors ! while they absolute have none.
Is it better to force "prefer flash when available" ? I never had that problem with my Flash panos on version 3.
I actually had this problem on my firefox when I output [ using Pano2VR 4 ] the HTML5 and Flash panos together with "Create All"
Doing it individually ; Create the Flash and HTML5 apart, did rectify the panos on my Firefox.

It works wonder though on ios devices

Best regards,
Affendy

Affendy · Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:08 pm

the misaligned seams : even on safari ;-(

Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:29 pm

Using PC Vista, and IE 9

Yes I do see the alignment issue. The alignments appear to be along the cube face tile joins.

Just thinking .... Using Pano2vr 4b2 /multiresolution\ I remember seeing

Flash Output /multiresolution\ tab "Overlap: [x] 1 pixel overlap " I think it is selected as default setting

You might look at your project file and see if the 1 pixel overlap is enabled.

Affendy · Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:33 pm

Hey Dave

I'm not using Multiresolution. Just externalize panos due to the 5 scenes.
I'll try doing it your way.
TIA

Affendy

Bostjan · Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:43 pm

I have got same "puzzled" image on Firefox...

Judy-A · Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:45 pm

I’m on Mac OS 10.6.8.

I see the tile misalignment in Opera. No problems in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.

Judy

Affendy · Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:08 am

Hello again. I'm trying out another option… or rather uncheck this option. I was too bold trying out things I don't understand well.

Might this be the problem ?

smooth · Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:18 am

You are confusing issues.

Yes, I see the cube face alignment issue. But only when the Flash version is showing. It is NOT browser dependent, but Flash vs HTML5

versions.
You didn't make this clear in your original post.

Have you "externalized" the cube faces?
Second to that are the Flash cube faces and the HTML5

being called from the same directory or different directories?

This is starting to become a common issue where people are externalizing to the same named folder "images" with the same file names and one published output is overwriting the other.
Thus incorrect images are being called. Doesn't help that the GUI is defaulting to "images" the Flash version should default to something other than what the HTML5

defaults to.

On a personal side note: There is no way in the world would I make HTML5

the preference.

Regards, Smooth

Judy-A · Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:17 am

Affendy wrote:Hello again. I'm trying out another option… or rather uncheck this option. I was too bold trying out things I don't understand well.
Might this be the problem ?

Hi Affendy,

We are all looking forward to some comprehensive documentation. It would save a lot of trial and error.

Smart loading is used to load a project that was previously saved. It will load only the preview image, if one is present.

See this message by Thomas:
http://gardengnomesoftware.com/forum/vi ... 766#p29498

Pano2VR generates the preview images on startup, but only if they are not present (or older then the source image) and no multi res images. when you save the project you should have a input_image_name.preview.jpg next to your panorama image (if the save preview image is enabled in the settings). The next time you open Pano2VR it will check for the preview file and load it, if it is present, so there will not be a rescale. If you also enable "smart loading" in the setting it will not load the full image on startup, only when it is needed. With these two options you can open an old giga pixel project within a split second!

Judy

Affendy · Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:34 am

Hi again & again, mea culpa

It wasn't thinking straight after 2 days of retrying. The thing is the panos errors are random. Some on Firefox and some on safari… be it OSX or Windows. Only iOS devices render the panos correctly !

Ok here's my output folders image and my new test link. I have a fall back folder named Flash to keep things apart.
File output HTML5 & Flash [ fall back ] with multi res.
Interpolation filter : Lancos 2

http://www.fnd-fnd.com/media/cordes2

Thanks all for the inputs. Appreciate lots

smooth · Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:45 am

Your address:
http://www.fnd-fnd.com/media/cordes2/
Fails to find the Flash panorama. It is looking for cordes_out.swf which is NOT in this directory. Via a HTML5

enabled browser we see the HTML5

version.

This address shows your Flash file without alignment error:
http://www.fnd-fnd.com/media/cordes2/fl ... es_out.swf

You should name the cube faces different between the Flash and HTML5

versions. Otherwise you are likely to have browser "Cache" issues.

Regards, Smooth

smooth · Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:11 am

If you view (your original) Flash version within the HTML wrapper you get the alignment cube face error.
http://www.fnd-fnd.com/media/cordes/

View the same Flash file without the HTML and there is no problem.
http://www.fnd-fnd.com/media/cordes/fla ... es_out.swf

Regards, Smooth

Affendy · Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:19 am

Smooth. Thanks a mighty for checking up. I'm redoing my panos again