Looks like an incredible update! This opens a lot of new creative potentials.
I have a few questions, does the 3d/depthmap feature support tiled images for gigapixel? If so, can the Depthmap tile and stream? Are there any options for nested gigapixel in this release?
No problem, just a simple photoshop batch script to mirror images before using the droplet will take care of it. Thanks Klaus!
Thanks Klaus!! Looks great, but it is not doing the mirroring step. I think they are texturing the cube from the outside and then making it a double sided polygon and viewing it from the inside. Is it possible to have it do the mirroring step as well?
Hi I am trying to automatically generate tiles for the Samsung Gear VR.
So far I have been mirroring the equirec in photoshop, then set the resolution to 1910 per cube face in the convertdroples.config file and use the ConvertSpheretoCube.bat . I then find that I have to rotate the top and bottom cube faces by 180 degrees in photoshop and bulk rename the cube faces to the Samsung standard of naming positive and negative x,y, & z rather than KR Pano's up, down left right etc:
_u = _py, rotate 180
_r = _nx
_d = _ny, rotate 180
_f = _nz
_l = _px
_b = _pz
This is still a bit laborious. Is there a way to make the Convert to Sphere batch action do the mirroring, rotations and name changes?
Wow now that is service! :) Thanks for the fix Klaus!
I am using the new 1.17.pr version of KR Panotools I am running into an issue tiling .psbs larger than 4GB I am using the MAKE PANO (MULTIRES) droplet.bat droplet.
in the cmd window it gets as far as printing "Output: Flash=yes HTML5=yes Press any key to continue . . ."
After pressing any key it just quits and produces no files. It is happening on both partial panoramas and sphericals.
Ok, looks like the bug was between occurred between the keyboard and the chair. I was testing and uploading so much that I think I failed to overwrite old tiles.
Yes. I attached a snapshot of the directory. I even went back and re-downloaded all of the licenses from the original sources as well as the krpanotools and the krpanoiphone.js multires preview to make sure it was not an issue of file corruption.
My KRPanoTools.license file is in the KRPanotools directory.
Hi I am trying to put together the most recent KR Tools w/ the multires preview and have run into a problem getting the license to work.
Here are the steps I followed:
I am still getting the KR Pano demo icons on all the tiles, see a test image here http://www.xrez.com/test/v/wedge.html
That is exciting news Klaus, personally I am not too concerned about a flash version working if there is an HTML 5 version.
Awesome, Thanks Klaus!
Umalo,
Do you mean paste all the images into one document and then tile it? You would probably exceed what you could do w/ PSB in the hardrock example.
I am more interested in embedding a high res image inside another high res image. You can see an example we did here for the parks service, http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_deepzoom/index.html It was created to study rockfall in the valley but is also used every day by search and rescue. What they like about it is that they can very quickly navigate from detailed view to detailed view and see the same spot from multiple perspectives in seconds and plan accordingly.
The problem of creating a single flat image from your sources is more pronounced if you embed a high res image within another high res image. Imagine you want to just take a regular snapshot that is 4000 pixels across and embed another snapshot inside of it that was only going to take up 1% of the area. You would have to resize the top image to 400,000 pixels, these would wasted pixels since they would not contribute more detail. Of course if you add more levels or use a gigapixel source as we do the problem amplifies. You would very quickly end up in a situation where even if it were possible to author it you would not be able to store that number of tiles on your server. A nested approach like was used in silverlight makes more sense. Silverlight is going to go away as well, it will be sad for the parks to lose the resource we built for them, would be nice if we could do this type of content w/ KR Pano.
I was once again thinking of how useful this is. Just wanted to make sure it didn't drop off the radar. 
Hi Klaus,
I am about to make a big gallery of some of our gigapixel work and am hoping to take advantage of the future final version of multires and flat projection in HTML5. Will the html/xml change for this? Or can I author it now and expect it to work when those features are updated?
Thanks!
I don't think I can make the code for you right now but I did something like this years ago I think w/ the vitual tour editor http://www.krpano.com/plugins/vtoureditor/#top that lets you change panoramas from within the pano. I don't have the code for this anymore. Maybe someone else on the forum can be more help.
You can also look at what people have done w/ screensavers, http://www.krpano.com/forum/wbb/inde…saver#post17339 to see if that fulfills you needs.
I would like to see a fisheye as an image type for input, especially for video. This would be very useful for fulldome applications that work from a domemaster (a fisheye circle in a square image) and you may also get people who shoot video w/ a fisheye that would like to view the material without post processing.
About 3/4 of our images are multires partial panos. It is nice that if you have a full sphere that the "Make Multires" droplet creates an html5 version as well as the flash version. I was wondering if there is anything I can do in this case for partial spherical panoramas. It seams that all that would be needed was to add the extra pixels so that it could be processed as a sphere and cubified for html5 but I have hundreds of these so I don't want to have to do each one manually. Does anyone have suggestions about how this could be done w/ the droplet?
Do you mean you can see the panorama but not the interface elements that you added to your xml templates?
I found with mine that I had to redo some of the xml to make it work for mobile, you can see here the things that are not supported. https://krpano.com/docu/html5/#supportedfunctionality
I added this to my html (although I am still trying to figure out how to inject it w/ a template) It will send the mobile device to one xml and everything else to your standard xml for flash player.
<script>
var viewer = createPanoViewer({swf:"foo.swf", id:"krpanoSWFObject", target:"pano"});
//viewer.useHTML5("whenpossible"); // incomment to use the HTML5 krpanoJS viewer always when possible (Safari5)
if( viewer.isDevice("iPhone|iPod|Android|iPad") )
viewer.addVariable("xml", "foo_mobile.xml");
else
viewer.addVariable("xml", "foo.xml");
viewer.embed();And then I re-wrote my plugin xml, not sure what I changed that made it work, but you could base yours on what I got to work.
<plugin name="xrezlogo" keep="true"
url="%SWFPATH%/../krpano/graphics/xrezlogo.png"
onclick="openurl('http://www.xrez.com')"
align="leftbottom" x="40" y="8"
enabled="true"
visible="true"
alpha="0.0"
scale="1"
handcursor="true"
selectable="true"
blendmode="layer" effect="dropshadow(2,45,0x000000,4,1);"
onhover="showtext(xrez.com)"
onloaded="if(xrezlogo !== false, delayedcall(0.5, set(visible,true); tween(alpha,0.75); ); );"
/>Hope this helps, if not I am sure there are other people here who know more than me about this that could help you.