Here's what I'm trying to do:
- I'm going to take a set of pictures of my living room as my first sample project to get this working
- I want to put them through the panorama picture maker
- I want to load that panoramic picture into a webpage so people can rotate it and look around as if they were standing there

Okay so I downloaded all the free versions of the software for Linux and I have everything unzipped, where do I go from here? What do I do first? Once I take all my pictures, what do I do with them? Basically I have no idea where to start here. Thanks!

Quoted from "fl360"

DeX - Please tell us what software have you downloaded? I am assuming you have downloaded "krpanotools"

These are the steps to create and display panorama:

1. Take a set of overlapping pictures of the scene (best to use tripod & pano head)
2. Stitch the set of images to create one spherical image of your scene (need to use stitching software such as ptgui or autopano ...)
3. Then you use the the krpanotools software that you downloaded to create a package that contains the viewer for your scene. The package will contain an html file plus other supporting files.
4. Then you upload the package created by panotools to your webserver.

Thank you for replying.

1. I downloaded all the free software as I'm not quite sure what each one does yet, I'm just trying to create the simplest example right now. But yes, I did download krpanotools for Linux.
2. Okay this is where I'm stuck, is this software included in what I downloaded or do I have to find some separate third part software to do this for me? I was assuming it was included.
3. I guess I'll ask more questions at this point once I get here. I need to get the spherical image first.

Okay, I followed your instructions, here's what I did:

1. Downloaded krpanotools for Linux
2. Downloaded krpanotools for Windows
3. Moved the Windows templates folder into the Linux krpanotools folder
4. Renamed the Linux krpanotools folder to krpano so it's easier to work with on the command line
5. Downloaded this panoramic image: http://queensbayshoppingmall.com/wp-cont…_panoramic1.jpg
6. Copied that panoramic image into the Linux krpano folder
7. Ran this command:


8. Got this output:


9. I loaded the pan.html page and it's just a black page that does nothing. Just imagine your browser window is completely black. I have Flash 10 installed, I can watch Flash videos on www.cinemassacre.com no problem and any other Flash based video site.

I tried this on my Dell Studio 15 laptop and also my quad core desktop, same result on both. What am I doing wrong?

Woohoo, it worked, thank you! It wasn't just the .swf file, I copied everything from the Windows folder into the Linux folder and that did it.

Okay so I have a spinning view of a single viewpoint in my living room, how do I step it up to making a walk through where you can click to move ahead to the next spot?

Okay creating the walkthrough from the panoramic image has been pretty easy but it seems I'm having a lot of trouble creating the panoramic image. Should it be this hard? I have a tripod and a camera, I get 100 - 150 pictures working in a circular motion, all at different angles so that I can put together a spherical panoramic image but anything too close (like the ground) doesn't connect with control points very well. And if I'm trying to do it inside my house, forget it. Sometimes it'll create the panoramic image but it'll leave out an entire angle of images for some reason. Or I'll try and merge 2 and it'll give me the only piece that doesn't line up between them instead of giving me the larger piece that does connect together. It's weird. I'm using Hugin to create the panoramic image, is there anything else that works in Linux? Should it be this hard? Do I just have to take A LOT more pictures when things are close up?

It's especially difficult when the camera is pointing straight down and I'm rotating it on the tripod. In one shot the tripod leg will be pointing 45 degrees in a northeast direction and then I turn the camera to take the next shot and the leg will be pointing 45 degrees in a northwest direction. Since it's such a drastic change between the 2 pictures it seems to have a problem merging them....understandably. But the only thing I can think of is moving it only about 10 degrees and continuously taking pictures every 10 degrees. I don't think that would help.

Wow, thank you. This is getting expensive fast, I was hoping to keep it pretty much free until it started generating some income for me. I guess I can't really do anything until I get a setup that gives me the nodal point of my camera though. And I'd probably have to start using a better camera than my $100 Nikon L22. I'm going to talk to a welder and see what he can make me for an interim piece until I make enough to buy one of the proper ones. Making what's in that link looks very confusing.

This is a video with my $10 tripod and my Nikon L22 I just made. Sorry it's a little dark here, I can do another in the morning if you like. The important part is the camera is very small so the lens sits pretty much right above the rotation point. I set up 2 Coke cans and you can see they stay in line with one another as I rotate the camera on the tripod. Also the vertical parts of my coffee table don't move in relation to one another. Is this okay for an amateur panoramic? Will this work or is it still not exact enough?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9cB3jVdsok

2-3 inches from the camera or from each other?

Lock the focus? What if you're doing a room that's 10 feet wide but 20 feet long? It'll be out of focus on the far walls and in focus on the near walls. Right? I can understand locking shutter speed, aperture, ISO and white balance though.

I just ordered the panoramic head from Nodal Ninja, thanks for posting the link. $40 shipping though, damn. I'll post back when I receive it and try it out.