Virtual Tour with Floorplan - Which Licences?

  • Can anyone pls tell me which licenses I need to buy to be able to produce virtual tours with integrated floorplan?

    Do I need the krpano Maps Plugin License? or the third party autoMap plugin?

    Thanks in advance to anyone who can clarify.
    Claire

  • Hi! Basically, a floorplan is an imagemap, like these in the Krpano's examples:

    https://krpano.com/examples/116/e…rollingmap.html

    https://krpano.com/examples/116/e…h-imagemap.html

    https://krpano.com/examples/116/e…imagemap-2.html

    If you have a license for 1.17 version, then there's no need to buy anything to build such maps (krpano code skills are needed, rather).

    Bing/Google maps need an additional license, because this is a kind of a "global" map provided by the third party (Bing or Google) and integrated into a VT.

    Automap plugin by Andrey makes work with the code easier and can add several maps to a tour, as far as I know.

    Hope I made it clear *smile*

    Regards,

    Alexey

  • Hello again, Those links were very useful. I have also been reading the documentation, and have a basic tour with interactive floorplan configured.
    I wondered though, is there documentation for these things anywhere. I can't seem to locate it.
    <plugin name="map" />
    <plugin name="zoombutton" />
    <plugin name="closebutton" />
    etc

    At the moment I just feel like I'm hacking bits of code together without understanding. It's working, but I'd rather understand.
    Many thanks,
    Claire

  • Those examples are also can be seen in the Krpano donwload package (1.17/examples).

    To understand how map works, see here documentation on "layer/plugin":

    https://krpano.com/docu/xml/#layer

    Layer is an element on the screen, which can be switched on/off or resized. Okay. Then it's clear about the layer, let's move on to the spots.

    If you open "scenes-with-imagemap" example xml, you wil' see the following code:

    The main layer is called "map" and it's written as container element with graphic content:

    Code
    <layer name="map" url="someimage".... >
    ......
    <layer>

    note here that the layer's closing tag is ">" (not "/>" as in normal layer) and this tag is followed by closing tag "</layer>"

    So, you can put more layers between ">" and the final "</layer>". And in this example we see that here are three layers named "room1", "room2" and "room3" which have "maskchildren="true". This is to make the radar cone invisible if it reaches beyond the current room.

    Each room is again written as container element and inside it - there are "spots' layers.

    Then there's "radar" plugin. Read here carefully about it:

    https://krpano.com/plugins/radar/#top

    then there are actions which control the map and its elements. The most important here is "activatespot" action. It is called "onstart" of each scene. To understand how it works, see the following:

    https://krpano.com/docu/xml/#layer.parent
    https://krpano.com/docu/xml/#layer.visible
    https://krpano.com/plugins/radar/#heading

    and try to understand what is "parameter" in actions:

    https://krpano.com/docu/actions/#syntaxandusage

    Hope this makes it a bit clearer)))

    Regards,

    Alexey

  • I am used to Krpano 1.16 I have changed the system. With this information I was able to make my floor plans. Thank you so much. *thumbsup*

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