On 25 Aug 2011, at 06:40, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> We are finally getting into panoramas here. We have got our shooting (with 
> "paralax: attachment on a tripod, that keeps the len on center during 
> rotation) and stitching working great.
> 
> But I'm clueless on delivery. Simple left to right panning, 
> stop-at-left-right-edges, is a no brainer and could be done in LiveCode.  
> Galleria (my fav JS slideshows= framework) will handle this easily on the 
> web. But the continuous 360 "keep going right and end up at the same place" 
> was what I was looking for.
> 
> Chipp gave me suggestions years ago about building side scroller games, but I 
> don't have them around handy.
> 
> Anyone have any experience and advice for:
> 
> 1) Delivery of panoramic 360 imagers inside LiveCode stacks?   without having 
> to resort to QTVR? using Livecode scripting? Or am I dreaming....I would love 
> to make some edutainment titles for kids to explore.. (they would have to 
> download the stack)

QTVR files are your best bet for showing panoramas within LiveCode unless you 
know the 3D plugin well. The side-scroller approach is only going to work if 
your panoramas have a very low vertical field of view - just long thin strips. 
Even then, distortion will be visible where horizontal features are visible in 
the image.

> 2) And for web delivery of Panos? Any "best of breed" options that you like? 
> KR Pano looks interesting; it does HTML5 in addition to Flash.

Either KRPano plus the iOS plugin or http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr.php 
which will convert you panoramas into QTVR/Flash and iOS files in one go.

> In a stack one could possibly put multiple buttons side by side and then set 
> their image data to the same image and set up a scroller... but it would be 
> hard to do hot spots. if you want to click on the bird and have an audio 
> play... in a sixth iteration of the photo to the right, the bird is a 
> different bird even if it looks the same to the viewer.  hmmm
> 
> If anyone had a script for causing a photo to move left and right as the 
> mouse approached the edge of the stack window.. that would be helpful too.

Again, that's not going to help with most panoramas as they will look distorted.

Ian


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