Create Doll House Button

  • What I'm trying to do is create a menu or popup button that then shows the project in doll house view.

    Here's a link to a Metareal sample tour, which is basically what I'm trying to achieve.

    https://www.metareal.com/gallery/


    So it seems like this should be possible using Everpano, but I can't seem to find the appropriate documentation or example.

    I guess there are 2 issues. The first is, if I download a panorama into Everpano and then do the appropriate modeling to the photo,

    will it generate a .depth file which I can then use in krpano? This is what this link seems to be saying.

    https://krpano.com/forum/wbb/inde…&threadID=17225

    The resulting image is exactly what I'm looking for.


    The second issue, is for krpano to create a button in the menu or a popup to display this model in .depth format. I would think

    that this would be straightforward, but I don't see any examples.

    The following is a still screen shot of the resulting model with the menu bar still on the bottom. I assume this is still in krpano.

    How did they do this?

    https://forum.we-get-around.com/topic/14919/us…rom-360-photos/


    It even appears that I should be able to create these .depth files from an external program, such as Blender,

    and then create them with this tool:

    https://krpano.com/docu/depth-file-format/

    Thanks for any help.

  • Indexofrefraction, thanks for your response. It was very helpful. I hadn't looked at the depthmap documentation in detail yet,

    which I probably should have. It makes a bit more sense now.


    I'm aware that MetaReal isn't made in KRpano. I've already made a demo 3DTour in MetaReal, but found their

    software a bit cumbersome. In particular, I didn't like having to develop the project on their server.

    I was hoping that I would be more comfortable with KRpano, provided I can still create "doll houses".


    I am now guessing that the Everpano software actually creates a KRpano project, but with the <depthmap>

    attribute included? Is this true? So that would be a simple way to go.


    In your comment that everything can be done without Everpano, are you referring to using other software

    such as Blender to create the depthmap? That seems to be the procedure lastromantik uses.


    Thank you lastromantik for your example. That's exactly what I'm trying to reproduce. What would be the

    general outline of the workflow for this? Possibly you could share the tour.xml source code if that's not

    too much trouble?


    Maybe the workflow would be:

    1) Convert the 360 photo from spherical to tiles. (In PTGui or KRpano ?)

    2) In Blender, make a 3D model ( using the tiles as reference ), UV unwrap the panaroma and place on the model,

    export as an .stl ( or .obj ?).

    3) Using the conversion tool mentioned in my previous post ( https://krpano.com/docu/depth-file-format/ ), convert

    the .stl to a .depth file.

    4) Reference the .depth file in the tour.xml, using the "depthmap file attribute" mentioned in the KRpano documentation.


    Does this sound like roughly the correct process? Thanks to both of you for your help.

  • 1) krpano droplet will do that
    2) yes blender or any 3d software. everpano is a simple 3d editor itself
    3) depth is just smaller, you could use an obj or stl as well
    4) yes
    but in reality there are much more details ofc *squint*
    you would start from an example tour.xml (eg. abu simbel)

    everpano might make it easier, but costs and is another layer on top.
    lastromantik is a similar thing, but not public available, yet (i think)

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