Posts by Crusty

I've tried that. It doesn't work. I've also changed it in https://vtsw.uk/vt/ht/skin/vtourskin.xml and that doesn't do it either, but in there, there are other loadscene_flags references. I wonder if it might be one of them? Any ideas anyone?

Hi Tuur,

I'm using krpano Tools 1.23.3 and have just uploaded a two pano tour to https://vtsw.uk/vt/ht/. If you click the >> to the next panorama, you'll see it's still looking at the stonework. Go back to the first image and pan up to the sky, click the hotspot there and it'll take you to the next panorama, but looking up at the sky and in a completely different direction. This is just the default Krpano settings. I've not amended any paramaters in tour.xml or any of the skins. I'd much appreciate your help with this. Thanks.

Hi there,

Is there a simple way of having hotspots just opening the target panorama using whatever that panorama's startup view is set to? It's maddening that by default it spins the target panorama up, down, around to wherever you happened to be looking, when you clicked the hotspot in the previous panorama!

I have defined "Set as startup views" for all my panoramas. They work exactly as I'd like when clicking the >> in the Krpano interface. When I click a hotspot link in a panorama, why on earth does that next panorama adopt whatever view I happened to be looking at in the previous one, such as vertically down to the ground?!!

I've spent the day faffing with Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude AI on this, but nothing I have found has solved it. It seems to be utter nonsense that the default krpano setting seems to be NOT to recoginise the "Set as startup view" setting. Can anyone advise?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by a "callout" in this context, but if you check out the third panorama in this tour: https://www.vtsw.uk/vt/ld/ it may be relevant to you. This is how I have managed to let people click a hotspot on something, then hear the audio related to the item they've clicked. Okay, the hotspot is disappearing, not appearing, when clicked, but you could change that to show something rather than hiding it.

Actually, why don't you just change the title of your scenes and manually add the percentages? I've just done that here: https://vtsw.uk/vt/timer/.

You could also check out this other thread of mine Tour.xml Editor which shows how I've used a bat file and PowerShell script to rename scenes 01, 02, 03 etc.. If you adapted that, you could get it to automatically count the number of scenes and work the percentages out for you and write that to each scene's title.

Btw, I don't do much coding, I get ChatGPT, Copilot or ClaudeAI to do it for me.

Check out my thread: Countdown Timer

Ignore the audio parts, but perhaps you could just add a layer to each scene and manually code a percentage into each html tag.

Hi everyone,

Having recently had some great help from Turr in these forums, so I just thought I’d share some of my utilities that might be of interest to you.

My 360 camera names files in the format IMG_20250904_192758_00_001_PureShot.jpg. This leads to a Krpano tour.xml scene such as this:

<scene name="scene_IMG_20250904_192758_00_001_PureShot" title="IMG_20250904_192758_00_001_PureShot" onstart="" thumburl="panos/IMG_20250904_192758_00_001_PureShot.tiles/thumb.jpg" lat="52.95000000" lng="0.65000000" alt="72.00" heading="0.0">.

What I’ve been doing manually for far too long is renaming all the titles to 01, 02, 03, etc. and the suffixing them with a description such as 01 Outside, 02 The Front Door, 03 The Hall, etc. which is quite a faff to do. So, I wrote this batch file and PowerShell routine 1PanoTitleRenumber.bat and 1PanoTitleRenumber.ps1. If copy them to where your tour.xml file is and run the bat, it’ll rename all your titles from what they currently are, to 01, 02, 03, etc.

Then if you edit the xml to change the titles to whatever you like, 01 Outside, 02 The Front Door, 03 The Hall, etc. for example, you can then run 2PanoRenamer.bat and that will edit the xml and rename all the panos sub-folders to match the nice names that you have.

If you give it a go, let me know how you get on

Regards, Chris

Is that just dealing with setting the volume? Or is it about hiding the layer?

Later: I've managed to get it to pretty much disappear by setting it to ' ' when it gets to zero.

btw, have you got a way of hiding the timer when it gets to zero? Here's my code:

<!-- The audio timer. -->
<style name="soundinfo" type="text" keep="true" align="bottom" bg="true" css="font-size:14px;color:white;background-color:rgba(30,30,30,0.75);font-weight:bold"/>
<layer name="countdown" style="soundinfo" y="0" html="Audio Time Left: x"/>
<action name="DoSound"> renderloop( if( sound[bgsnd].duration GT 0 AND sound[bgsnd].position GE 0, layer[countdown].html = 'Audio time left: ' + roundval(sound[bgsnd].duration - sound[bgsnd].position), layer[countdown].html = 'Audio Time Left: 0' ); ); </action>
<!-- End of the audio timer -->

That's stupendous! Thanks very much Turr. I got is working, all nice and simple. Here's a demo of what I've done: https://vtsw.uk/vt/timer/ click the first to kick it off, then check out bottom middle of the screen. Thanks very much indeed!

Hey great! Thanks so much for that. I'll take it to bits later on today and hopefully get it doing what I want, then I'll post the results back here...

Hi Tuur,

Here's an example https://vtsw.uk/vt/prog/ as you'll see there's a timer top right, but I've not managed to get it to countdown.

Thanks for looking.

Does anyone have a working solution to displaying a coundown timer, of different lengths, in selected scenes? I'd like to let the viewer know how long the audio that's playing assocuated to a pano, has left to run. I've battled all day with Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, but I can't get any of the code working.

Thanks, Chris

Ah, I hadn't tried uploading tour.js - it works! Thanks very much

Hi there,

Klaus recently kindly issued me with an updated krpano viewer licence that is registered to me, rather than the member of staff that has left our company. We've also set-up a separate identity for this part of the business, and the license is now reflecting that name.

We have hundreds of panorama networks online that are using the old licence. Is there a simple way of updating them all to the new licence? I'm hoping there might be a particular file we can upload, overwriting the old version, to get the new licence active. I've tried uploading files from plugins and skin, but it's not changing the license.

Can anyone help?

Apologies everyone, it's another schoolboy error, I've realised I'd changed the scene tag instead of the title tag :-/

I'm getting the "invalid name! Names need to begin with an alphabetic character!" error with krpano 1.21.2 (build 2023-12-11). I like having panoramas name "01 Something...", "02 Something else...".

(Edit: My error, see below...)

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know of a way of rearranging the order of the panoramas, just by drag and dropping them in an interface, like the thumbnail interface in the viewer? Okay, I can edit the XML, but it'd be nice to have a drag-and-drop interface to do it.

Thanks, Chris

Thanks for the reply and interesting that it's working for you. Would you mind letting me know which iPhone model and iOS version you are using?

I am so sorry that you don't like audio automatically playing.