Pano2VR 2.2.0 released

[thomas]

I'm sorry to confirm that bug : (

There is something odd however: text with an alpha of less than 1 used not to be 'dimmed' in the Flash9 standalone player, now it is!
I was going to use that 'feature' to persuade people to upgrade their Flash9 plugins, because such a message would not be visible to viewers with a Flash10 plugin. Seems like I may have to think of something else now : )

You can use 0.001 and everything should work as before .

[Hopki]

Help Page Button: To hide the opened user data page I would add: on click change alpha to 0 user data.
This causes an out of sync problem.?

What do you mean with that?

Hummmmm, ok I will post the skin. Toggle the help and info pages using the buttons. You will notice that every so often you need to click twice to open a page.

This is a similar problem that I have encountered before See thread Here

[Hopki]

Hi Thomas
Been playing, an element with an alpha of above .5, so .6/.7/.8/.9 will be visible even though it is set to, not visible

Set the alpha to 1 then it’s not visible. Set the alpha to .5 and below, and it’s not visible either.

So what happens if I want to toggle visible an element with an alpha of .8, it can not be done unless you put it in a container.

Confused.

Hopki

[groobcio]

Hi,

I have the same problem with elements with alpha less than 1, and unchecked VISIBLE. It is not hide and it isn't possible to hide this element. I must change in myy project Hide and Show with Set Scale function.

In Beta version it rok fine.

Groobcio

[thomas]

I have the same problem with elements with alpha less than 1, and unchecked VISIBLE. It is not hide and it isn't possible to hide this element. I must change in myy project Hide and Show with Set Scale function.

Ok, I will change that back with the next version.

[Hopki]

Thomas,
Being able to change Alpha to 0 and not have the element there is a great feature, the only problem is the Alpha .9 to .6 visible thing, so if you can find a way around the problem then that would be good

I think most of the feed back you have had is not so much bugs but not knowing how to use the new features and how to implement them, a good example is the dynamic title, once I knew how to use it, it’s fantastic.

All your hard work is appreciated; just think it needs to be said from time to time.

You the man,

Hopki

[erik leeman]

Hi Thomas,

An inserted small Flash pano (instead of a .png or .jpg image) still makes the standalone player crash, so that's not it apparently.

Hmmm, this should work. Can you send me an example?

If I enter this text: <img src="../THUMB/08-04-29-Egmond-100x50.swf">, which refers to a small 60KB autorotating Flash9/10 panorama,
(instead of <img src="../THUMB/08-04-29-Egmond-150x88.jpg">), the host pano opens allright, but is very unresponsive.
In the position where the small pano should be there is a window of the dimensions I declared, but it shows a small portion of the host pano itself instead of the tiny external one. With some patience this pano-in-a-pano can be panned a bit, but then the standalone viewer crashes.
The external .jpg images addressed the same way work absolutely fine, so animated GIFs could perhaps be an alternative for what I want to do, but still it would be nice if we could insert external Flash content, preferably with interactive qualities.

This is in the XML:
<type>text</type>
<text><img src="08-04-29-Egmond-100x50.swf"></text>
<textalign>1</textalign>
<bordercolor>#000000</bordercolor>
<textcolor>#ffffff</textcolor>
<backgroundcolor>#e1e1e1</backgroundcolor>
<backgroundenabled>0</backgroundenabled>
<borderwidth>0</borderwidth>
<textexecute>0</textexecute>
<autosize>1</autosize>
<wordwrap>1</wordwrap>

(oh, if I replace that < with a simple < I get a 'tag mismatch' error notice, so that's how it should be apparently)

If necessary I can send you an example, if so, what address do you want me to send it to?

Erik

[erik leeman]

I've just tried inserting an external animated Flash file I made using Adobe Image Ready (CS2) and it works fine.
Adobe Image Ready can also read an animated GIF and convert it into a .swf file, so that's handy too.

The problem then is only with inserting external Pano2VR generated .swf files into Pano2VR .swf files.
That's very unfortunate, because I want to use small, thumbnail sized, autorotating panos as hotspot 'teasers'.

I think it's possible to use DevalVr to generate an image sequence from a rotating VR panorama, so an animated .swf can be made, but such a .swf will be MUCH larger than a Pano2VR one of the same dimensions, AND it takes a lot more time to make them.
So a solution would be very welcome!

Oh, the Flash9 Standalone Player (R47) gives this error notice:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at PanoCube/init()

Erik

[erik leeman]

Here's a test version showing two inserted external animated Flash images, one as a fixed image, and one as a hotspot 'embellishment'.

http://tinyurl.com/insert-external-flash-TEST-01

Of course all items like the compass and buttons were sadly buggered by PanoVR version 2.2.0.
Select Flash in the combo box under the pano window if you have DevalVR installed.

Note: I'll remove or replace this one after a day or so.

Erik

[smooth]

Erik,

This should also allow for .swf animated loaders.
... and of course if you could pin the .swf to the 3D map you could add flash movies to tv screens etc like DevalVR.
Once you can do this you can add Clocks to walls etc just like FPP.

Regards, Smooth

[erik leeman]

Once you can do this you can add Clocks to walls etc just like FPP.

... or make a nice animated logo,...stuck to the nadir!
HAHAHAHAHA!
;p
Erik

[smooth]

Once you can do this you can add Clocks to walls etc just like FPP.

... or make a nice animated logo,...stuck to the nadir!
HAHAHAHAHA!
;p
Erik

Thought you would catch on! ROFL

Regards, Smooth

[erik leeman]

Hey, NOW look at my test pano!
http://tinyurl.com/insert-external-flash-TEST-01

: D

Erik

[firehell]

Hi Thomas

have I found a bug in 2.2.0?

about the userdata:comment.
I can use the userdate comment as a link in old pano2vr.
( for exmple, I can input this: "<a href="mailto:firehell@gmail.com">firehell@gmail.com</a>" to the userdate comment )
but now , in the 2.2.0 I cant input like that. only input "firehell@gmail.com"

[Hopki]

Hi Erik
What can I say, brilliant!

I don’t know much about flash but I would love to know how you did it.
I have had a play following your code from the XML file. But this just generates so many more questions, like where do you put the .swf file, in the ggsk?

Any way, as I said BRILLIANT.

Hopki