Posts by trigdog

Very excited for this release. Thanks for all the hard work . I have been looking into depth map generating python scripts with not much luck in the results.

Quote from spacerywirtualne

If you want, I can record a tutorial film, like I do in Photoshop.

Piotr, that looks great . I would greatly appreciate your Photoshop tutorial, thanks

Thanks!! That worked

Piotr,
Tried the Autotour feature but my subject is really in just a part of the pano and I was working on a solution to get it to switch as soon as the autotour gets to a certain point instead of having to wait for it to go all the way around. I got it close to working but the loadscene() function doesn't change the Pano title and I think the MERGE setting messes with the start_view setting I set on each pano when it goes to the next scene. Does CMS4VR have a custom function I should call to get to the next scene (the same as the next arrow on the navigation) instead of loadscene()? Here is what I added to the user_gui.xml file.

https://tours.dependablepaint.com/black-bull/1/

<krpano>


<project_settings_global 
  autotour_isset_to="true"
  autotour_speed_isset_to="10"
  dynamic_autorotate_horizon="100"
/>


<events onnewpano="autotour_range();" if="editmode != true" />


<action name="autotour_range">
    def(s_name, string, get(scene[get(xml.scene)].name));
    if (s_name === "scene_p1", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(70,75); ); );
    if (s_name === "scene_p3", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(105,110); ); );
    if (s_name === "scene_p4", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(45,50); ); );
    if (s_name === "scene_p6", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(-50,-45); ); );
    if (s_name === "scene_p7", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(-50,-45); ); );
    if (s_name === "scene_p8", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(-105,-100); ); );
    if (s_name === "scene_p9", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(100,105); ); );
    if (s_name === "scene_p10", set("events.onviewchanged", range_event(0,5); ); );
</action>


<action name="range_event">
    set(inside,false);
    if(view.hlookat GT %1, if(view.hlookat LT %2, set(inside,true); ); );
    if(lasttime_inside === null, copy(lasttime_inside,inside));
    if(lasttime_inside != inside,
        if(inside, 
            set("events.onviewchanged", null);
            nextscene();
          );
        copy(lasttime_inside,inside);
      );
</action>


<action name="nextscene">
add(nextsceneindex, get(scene[get(xml.scene)].index),1);
if(nextsceneindex LT scene.count, loadscene(get(scene[get(nextsceneindex)].name), null, MERGE, BLEND(0.7)); );
</action>


</krpano>

Quote from trigdog

Lens flares?

Sorry, found this in POI

Another feature idea. Instead of:

Quote from trigdog

A way to set the limitview globally or per pano; for example, limitview="offrange" vlookatmin="75" vlookatmax="-90". Some jobs are on a tighter budget so it would be nice to restrict the view from looking down instead of removing the tripod.

You could use the php-imagick extension to convert the pano to an mirror ball nadir cap (windows script example) and generate the cap image to cover a tripod. Maybe it could be a POI option that adds a re-sizeable POI circle and on save it generates the mirror ball image that same size in that same spot? Just a thought. Thanks.

Question about KEEPVIEW.

I uploaded the same pano image twice to test KEEPVIEW. I stitched it twice with 2 different stitching software. This makes the degrees different in each so setting the north to the exact same spot in the image has a different north for each pano.

I thought I could set the north in each pano to the exact same spot in the room, turn on KEEPVIEW and switch between them and what I am looking at shouldn't change. That does seem to be the case, it seems to move left or right by about 90 degrees. Am I missing something on that?

I like the system a lot once I figured out the issue on my end. Had a couple feature ideas and just thought I would put them here:

• A way to set the limitview globally or per pano; for example, limitview="offrange" vlookatmin="75" vlookatmax="-90". Some jobs are on a tighter budget so it would be nice to restrict the view from looking down instead of removing the tripod.
• A way to set the start fov/zoom globally or per pano. On smaller rooms it would be nice to start the pano a little more zoomed out.
• Lens flares? already a feature
• Rotate a POI hotspot around the x axis so it distorts it to look like it is sitting on the floor (like you can do with stickers)
• Custom POI hotspot image instead of circle-arrow.

Down the road:

• support transition like Shift inside the sphere

Thanks.

Quote from spacerywirtualne

Livepano (is in the plans)

Great, thanks for the reply. Do you think the Livepano feature will make it into 1.x or in the plans for 2.x and higher?

Great. Will the 1.x version eventually get all the features of VT Builder? Is there a comparison of the two?