Hi all,
I'm completely new to KRPano and am wondering if anyone here can give me some pointers... or, better still, some examples of xml code.
I have been using FPP for about the last 3 years and can, pretty much, get the tours to do whatever I want. The reason for moving over to KRPano is mainly because of it's iphone/pad compatibility.
The problem I have is that it looks like I'm going to have to forget just about everything I've learnt about xml and start again!.... the coding in KRP is just so different. If I can get an example of code that incorporates most of what I need. Then I can go away and play with it until it makes sense to me.

Here is an example of a typical opening sequence that I've made with FPP: http://www.i-barcelo.com/virtualtours/Ba…_bar/index.html

The sequence is:
Pano opens at pan -45 and tilt -20.
After loading the pano pans to 15 and tilts to 5 timed to 1.5 seconds for the pan and 1.25 for the tilt.
Then tilts down to -15 timed to 1 second.
The 'help' screen then fades in from alpha 0 to alpha 1 timed at 0.3 of a second.
Meanwhile the pano desaturates.
The default help panel is in Spanish and in the top right corner there is an option to change it to English.
When the user clicks 'close', the help panel scales to 0.2 timed at 0.2 of a second on it's Y axis, then to 0 on it's X axis and the pano starts to auto rotate while coming up to full saturation.

I have been in touch with Klaus and he was very helpful and sent me some example code and links to the xml areas of the web site but, as the code is all new to me, I'm not really sure where to even start.
If anyone can help, even with just parts of these commands for KRP, I will be very grateful as it will be a massive saving on my time.

Thanks in advance

Kev

Exactly what I need..... very helpful
Thanks VN2011

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then make some actions. the intro action will fade the menu to alpha 1 over 0.3 seconds at the same time as starting the first pan. once it reaches the first pan settings it will wait 0.25 seconds then pan down.

All of the tweens happen simultaneously.
How do I turn these tweens into a chain of events? i.e. tween(view.hlookat,15,1.5) & tween(view.vlookat, 5,1.25); to happen simultaneously then, once this action is complete, wait 'X' seconds and tween(view.vlookat, -15,1)... on complete, tween(plugin[helpmenu].alpha, 1,0.3).

Also, I tried changing onxmlcomplete to onloadcomplete, because everything starts too soon, but nothing happens. The tour loads but stays in it's opening position.

As I already said, thanks for the info, any help is much appreciated, but I'm still struggling a little.

Thanks Klaus,

How do I delay the start of the action?
I tried changing onxmlcomplete to onloadcomplete, because everything starts too soon, but then nothing happens. The tour loads but stays in it's opening position.

I'm beginning to understand the structure... just have to learn all the different vars and action commands etc.
For anyone that's interested, here's what I've managed so far for my opening move and language change: http://www.virtualtours.es/downloads/barcelo__bar/tour.html
Just need to work on some nav buttons and it's done .

Thanks again for all the help and advice.

If the pano blurs after you close the intro image, something is wrong... maybe connection speed?.What connection are you on?
The pano is supposed to desaturate and blur immediately after the intro instruction screen opens so that the user is focused on the instructions.
On click to close, the pano should return to normal. This is what happes at my end.

If you want the code and method for the desaturation and blur, I'll post everything up when I get back from skiing on Monday.

Thanks for your interest.

I've changed the timing of the pano blur so it should fade to a desaturated blur while simultaniously opening the intro help panel.
There still seems to be a slight delay but, I think this will be acceptable as the user should be reading the instructions. However, I'll be interested to know how it looks from out there.

VN2011, the method is simple. I just created another scene using a copy of the pano images that I desaturated and blurred.
In the action that opens the intro panel I put: loadscene('scene_2',null,KEEPALL,BLEND(1.2));
If you want to see the complete code, let me know.

What I'm struggling with now is changing the hover language of my buttons.
I have duplicated the plugins, called one <Style name="buttonES> and the other <Style name="button> which is set to visible, "false".
I know Icould make an action to change each plugin individually but, it makes more sense to me to have just one command to change buttonES to visible, false and button to visible true.
I've tried various combinations including set(style[buttonES].visible, false); set(style[button].visible, true); and onClick set(buttonES.visible, false); but can't get anything to work.
Is what I'm trying to do even possible?

Cheers

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But I can se he uses keepall, have not seen that code used before

Hi Hans,
What do you think I should use instead of KEEPALL. ? As I said earlier in the post, I'm just starting with KRPano after being a few years with FPP and I'm on a bit of a learning curve here so any advice or pointers will be gratefully recieved.

Ok, here's the finished tour: http://www.virtualtours.es/downloads/barcelo__bar/tour.html
All works nicely at my end but I've found that, since adding the buttons, I get an error 'xml parsing failed' when I try to view it on an iPhone.
As viewing the tours on iPhone/Pad was my main reason for taking on the challange of learning to use KRPano, this is quite an important issue.
Any ideas anyone?

The entire code is too long to post on here.
Here's the code for the buttons:

<!-- Nav buttons -->

<textstyle name="buttonstyle" font="Arial" fontsize="10" border="false"
background="false" textcolor="0xFFFFFF" xoffset="0" yoffset="-20"
effect="glow(0x000000,0.7,4,2);dropshadow(2,45,0x000000,3,1);" />

<style name="button" keep="true" align="bottom" y="10" url="graphics/buttons.png" />

<!-- some default buttons (zooming, direction, hotspots on/off, fullscreen) -->
<plugin name="in_ES" style="button" x="-160" crop="160|0|40|40" onovercrop="160|40|40|40" ondowncrop="160|80|40|40" ondown="set(fov_moveforce,-1);" onup="set(fov_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="out_ES" style="button" x="-120" crop="200|0|40|40" onovercrop="200|40|40|40" ondowncrop="200|80|40|40" ondown="set(fov_moveforce,+1);" onup="set(fov_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="left_ES" style="button" x="-80" crop= "0|0|40|40" onovercrop= "0|40|40|40" ondowncrop= "0|80|40|40" ondown="set(hlookat_moveforce,-1);" onup="set(hlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="right_ES" style="button" x="-40" crop= "40|0|40|40" onovercrop= "40|40|40|40" ondowncrop= "40|80|40|40" ondown="set(hlookat_moveforce,+1);" onup="set(hlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="up_ES" style="button" x="+0" crop= "80|0|40|40" onovercrop= "80|40|40|40" ondowncrop= "80|80|40|40" ondown="set(vlookat_moveforce,-1);" onup="set(vlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="down_ES" style="button" x="+40" crop="120|0|40|40" onovercrop="120|40|40|40" ondowncrop="120|80|40|40" ondown="set(vlookat_moveforce,+1);" onup="set(vlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="rotationStop_ES" style="button" x="+80" crop="240|0|39|39" onovercrop="240|40|40|40" onoutcrop="240|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Parar Autorotación, buttonstyle);" onclick="ARbuttonChange(); "visible="false" />
<plugin name="rotationStart_ES" style="button" x="+80" crop="280|0|39|39" onovercrop="280|40|40|40" onoutcrop="280|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Iniciar Autorotatión, buttonstyle);" onclick="ReverseARbuttonChange();" />
<plugin name="info_ES" style="button" x="+160" crop="400|0|40|40" onovercrop="400|40|40|40" ondowncrop="400|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Abrir Panel de Ayuda, buttonstyle);" onclick="openhelpES();" visible="true" />
<plugin name="openfs_ES" style="button" x="+120" crop="320|0|40|40" onovercrop="320|40|40|40" ondowncrop="320|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Abrir Pantalla Completa, buttonstyle);" onclick="set(fullscreen,true);set(plugin[openfs].visible, false);set(plugin[closefs].visible, true); " visible="true" />
<plugin name="closefs_ES" style="button" x="+120" crop="360|0|40|40" onovercrop="360|40|40|40" ondowncrop="360|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Volver a Pantalla Normal,buttonstyle);" onclick="set(fullscreen,false);set(plugin[openfs].visible, true);set(plugin[closefs].visible, false);" visible="false" />

<plugin name="in" height="0" style="button" x="-160" crop="160|0|40|40" onovercrop="160|40|40|40" ondowncrop="160|80|40|40" ondown="set(fov_moveforce,-1);" onup="set(fov_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="out" height="0" style="button" x="-120" crop="200|0|40|40" onovercrop="200|40|40|40" ondowncrop="200|80|40|40" ondown="set(fov_moveforce,+1);" onup="set(fov_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="left" height="0" style="button" x="-80" crop= "0|0|40|40" onovercrop= "0|40|40|40" ondowncrop= "0|80|40|40" ondown="set(hlookat_moveforce,-1);" onup="set(hlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="right" height="0" style="button" x="-40" crop= "40|0|40|40" onovercrop= "40|40|40|40" ondowncrop= "40|80|40|40" ondown="set(hlookat_moveforce,+1);" onup="set(hlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="up" height="0" style="button" x="+0" crop= "80|0|40|40" onovercrop= "80|40|40|40" ondowncrop= "80|80|40|40" ondown="set(vlookat_moveforce,-1);" onup="set(vlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="down" height="0" style="button" x="+40" crop="120|0|40|40" onovercrop="120|40|40|40" ondowncrop="120|80|40|40" ondown="set(vlookat_moveforce,+1);" onup="set(vlookat_moveforce,0);" />
<plugin name="rotationStop" height="0" style="button" x="+80" crop="240|0|39|39" onovercrop="240|40|40|40" onoutcrop="240|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Stop Autorotation, buttonstyle);" onclick="ARbuttonChange(); "visible="false" />
<plugin name="rotationStart" height="0" style="button" x="+80" crop="280|0|39|39" onovercrop="280|40|40|40" onoutcrop="248|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Start Autorotation, buttonstyle);" onclick="ReverseARbuttonChange();" />
<plugin name="info" height="0" style="button" x="+160" crop="400|0|40|40" onovercrop="400|40|40|40" ondowncrop="400|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Open The Help Screen, buttonstyle);" onclick="openhelpUK();" visible="true" />
<plugin name="openfs" height="0" style="button" x="+120" crop="320|0|40|40" onovercrop="320|40|40|40" ondowncrop="320|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Open Fullscreen, buttonstyle);" onclick="set(fullscreen,true);set(plugin[openfs].visible, false);set(plugin[closefs].visible, true); " visible="true" />
<plugin name="closefs" height="0" style="button" x="+120" crop="360|0|40|40" onovercrop="360|40|40|40" ondowncrop="360|80|40|40" onhover="showtext(Return to Normalscreen,buttonstyle);" onclick="set(fullscreen,false);set(plugin[openfs].visible, true);set(plugin[closefs].visible, false);" visible="false" />