Hi, this is my first post and I wasn't entirely sure what sub-forum would be best, so I am posting this here and maybe it can be moved if needed?
Last night it came to my attention that VR for my virtual tours was broken. I searched the forum and found the solution, which was that an update to some math in Chrome (degrees vs radians) had caused it, and that I just needed to update my plugin, js, and swf files (I was on pr12, so updated to pr16). In doing so, I found it very cumbersome to replace the contents of the "plugins" folder inside every vtour individually. The number of vtours I manage will only increase over time, so it would be very helpful to be able to make a single edit (per vtour, at the time of creation) that causes it to look for plugins in a central location. This way I would only ever need to update the contents of one folder. I looked through the xml and html files, but could not find any reference to "plugins" path anywhere. Is this centralization possible? What do I need to modify?
On the same theme, I would like to centralize the customizations I've made to my vtour skin. This one is more obvious HOW to do, but I can't seem to make it work... in the tour.xml file, you can "include" extra files that will modify the skin. The default path which works fine is the "skin" folder, which is inside the root vtour folder for a given vtour. So including my custom file looks like this:
This is fine, but same as with the plugins, I need a copy of this file inside every "skin" folder for every vtour. If I want to make a tweak in the future, I will need to replace every instance of it. It would be much better to have one instance of it that every tour can reference. Since, in my file-structure, it would be two directories higher than the vtour root, I have tried variations of this:
But it fails to load... I've even tried an absolute path with my full website URL. Is this a permissions issue? or do I have the wrong syntax? Is this possible to achieve?
Lastly, a bit different kind of question, but I noticed that there is a vtour editor built right into "krpano Tools.exe" in the new pr16, but it when I tried to use it, it told me that my tour had not been created by one of the droplets. My workflow is to use a droplet first, then make some manual edits, which include the "include" lines mentioned in the previous paragraph, as well as the duplication of some scenes (and renamed, so that I can make you face the right way depending on what direction you are travelling through the vtour)... so my question about this is: what are the criteria that the tool looks for to determine if the tour is valid for editing by inside the program? My edits are pretty minor, so it seems pretty strict...
Hope I can find some solutions, and streamline my work!