Posts by kme

I had a quick look, and did not get any black tiles. But the loading of data is really slow - it takes about 2-3 seconds per tile to load. Consider using a faster hoster.

This looks like a krpano issue, not with the plugin. Names cannot start with a number. See:

krpano.com - Documentation - XML Reference

Something to consider is that when coding the menu in krpano, the menu will be displayed when using "full screen". When you use html, and the user goes full screen mode, the menu will not be visible as it is outside the canvas of krpano.

HTML and CSS in general is not supported in VR, so displaying a website is not supported either.

Yeah, I was assuming it would, but it seems that when the depthmap is created using a PNG, the wireframe is not reflecting the depthmap.
I had a look at your example, and can confirm the issues you noticed.
Maybe just use sphere for now?

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Hi,

A quick update on this - combining krpano and threeJS works nicely

In the next release there are new APIs for including and integrated other WebGL renderer.
And almost all works - depthbuffer, hittesting, postprocessing, VR/stereo/anaglyph.

I think the only things that can't be used together are the fisheye-projections from krpano and the EffectComposer postprocessing from ThreeJS...

Best regards,
Klaus

Hello Klaus,

The message above is now almost a year old. When you wrote the post, I was very excited to see where krpano would go and I was looking forward to a release that we could further explore. Since then, there have been numerious posts where you talk about the next version, for features and for bug fixes. There was even some mention of a release around the time where the hype around the Apple Vision was released (Februari). But unfortunately, nothing has been released yet.

I'm still looking forward to a release, as the features that we require for some of our current projects should allow us to continue to use krpano. But in the meantime, we have explored various alternatives to krpano and while they not provide us with the low level flexibility that krpano is offering, the support from those alternatives has been very satisfactory, the release schedule and feature development is far more frequent and the community for some of them is a lot more active.

So I'm asking - what is on the radar for krpano and can you give us some insight in the plans for a release so we can also plan our developments on the short to mid term?

Many thanks,

Kristof

You can also enable the wireframe in both scenarios to see if there is anything off with the depthmaps.

<display wireframe="true" />

Would it be possible to put that example online?

Yes, that should be possible.

The plugin can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of the first post.

Use 1.21:

New: Encrypt Tool - increase the maximum filesize of input files from 10MB to 256MB.

Load your krpano in javascript

krpano.com - Documentation - Javascript Interface

and then use

krpano.call("loadscene(scene_name, null, MERGE, BLEND (1));");

I'm not sure, but I think you are comparing an "integer" to a "string".

set(j, 1), will set the value of j to 1 (as an integer, a numeric value)

but get(thumb_static_group) will be "1" (notice the quotes), which is a string (not a numeric value)

If you compare 1 to "1", they are different.

Best is to convert both to string or to ints, and then compare their value.

I like it, well done!

WebVR requires https, is your local webserver using it?

klaus.krpano any insight from you on this topic?

try setting your depthmap textured=false instead of true

what is a "VR scene" ?

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Btw - in version 1.22 there is a new/builtin 'tohexcolor' function for converting Numbers automatically to a hex-color-string:

but where is 1.22 ??

krpano does not support material settings like metallic, roughness, bump map, reflections, ... Only "color" (diffuse) is supported through textures. So the export from blender may contain all these material properties, but krpano will not use them.