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1. on May 23, 2007 at 9:14 am Frits Jan wrote:

   Hi Dennis,

   Great job! Even more than I hoped for.
   Actually this demo of yours is about the same as my idea for my new portfolio site!
   Me sitting at my desk full of interactive objects to click on and to view, even the computer monitor is what I had in mind.
   Nice that I now know it is indead possible!

   Only one question, why is it that old customers get the update later than new ones? Gimmie gimmie!

2. on May 23, 2007 at 11:30 am Yvan Van Hoorickx wrote:

   I purchased this viewer 2 days ago and I’m realy excited about the posibilities. As a pre-Immervision user where I was feeling like a bird in a cage, the quality an ease of working of flashpanoramas is unbelievable.
   These new features were even above my exceptions. Congratuations with the great work, I’m really happy that I found your panoviewer.

   Greetz,
   Yvan.

3. on May 23, 2007 at 2:21 pm Andrei Zdetovetchi wrote:

   Wow!!! This is soooo cool! Exactly what I’ve been waiting for! Now I can finally release my creativity!
   Way to go Denis!

4. on May 23, 2007 at 2:23 pm Philipp Koch wrote:

   This one really got me! I was unsure which one to take: Immervision’s “pure tools” or your player. But the decision has now very easily been taken: Of course your player is clearly the better one, with better documentation, more possibilities, and — at the same price!

   Question: Is the price of ~40 EUR going to stay stable even with the new version?

   Regards, Ph.

5. on May 23, 2007 at 7:06 pm Chris wrote:

   Great Incredible Job.
   Are You read in our minds?
   SKL

6. on May 23, 2007 at 7:08 pm Hans Nyberg wrote:

   Hi

   This is great. When can we see a fullscreen version of it.

   There are a few things.
   Zoom out should be CTRL as everyone is used to from QTVR

   The video stop start does not work in my Safari/Intel MacBook Pro
   Which also means you can not initiate the camera.

   Hans
   http://www.panoramas.dk

7. on May 23, 2007 at 7:53 pm Hans Nyberg wrote:

   Got it working in Safari. Looks like something was wrong, after restarting it works.
   But I can not change back to the video after removing camera support.
   JUst get a grey screen and need to update the page to get back.

   Hans

8. on May 24, 2007 at 1:53 am Denis V. Chumakov wrote:

   2Philipp: yes, the player’s price will be static for sure. To be true, I going to release new GUI for tiny additinal price this summer, but all plugins and updates for Flash Panorama Player will stay free for customers.

   2Hans: now you can right click on the movie and select “Go Fullscreen”. Believe, you have powerful computer.
   And this is a button to load the video back.

9. on May 24, 2007 at 3:05 pm Philipp Koch wrote:

   Thanks for your response, Denis! This — the fact that you listen to what (potential) user’s think or want to know — definitly makes the difference (and, of course, the technical superiority of your player compared with others) to what others (like Immervision) offer (or, actually, do not offer As soon as I have my stuff together, I will puchase it. Thanks so much for doing this! You’ve pushed panoramic image presentation one big step ahead… (Sorry for my bad English, my native language is neither Actionscript nor English, but German).

   Ah, and I have another question: Is is (or will it be) possible to combine to panos in one SWF, where one is the “main pano” and the other is in the background, partially invisible with alpha channels or something like this? For example, if you have a pano showing a room in a building, you could have a second pano masked “behind” the room’s windows, so that one could simulate a kind of “view” to the outside that would seem more three-dimensional. Sorry, is this understandable? I hope (If I have understood you right, it would already be possible to have a flv be shown in the window (passing cars, for example)

   Regards, Philipp

10. on May 24, 2007 at 3:06 pm Philipp Koch wrote:

    {{ Of course, I meant: “combine two panos”, sorry }}

11. on May 24, 2007 at 3:52 pm Jeffrey wrote:

    This is super!!

    

12. on May 24, 2007 at 3:53 pm Prague wrote:

    Will it be possible to have timelapse ?

    like I have done in spi-v on this page - http://www.prague360.com/timelapse

13. on May 24, 2007 at 8:00 pm Hans Nyberg wrote:

    One thing I have noticed after going fullscreen. It seems that it builds up some memory problem after some time.
    Video suddenly starts jerking and the frame rate drops to around 5.
    Is this a special flash “feature”

    Hans

14. on May 24, 2007 at 10:19 pm Eric Rougier wrote:

    Really great !

15. on May 25, 2007 at 1:48 pm Denis V. Chumakov wrote:

    2Philipp: Yes, you can do it using “keying” and alpha channel in any video editor. Also you can do it even simpler in Flash editor using masks.

    2Hans: Yes, Flash do not use hardware layer of video card (to be multiplatform and “less then 1.5Mb plugin”). So this application can be slow for some computers because it uses big panorama images (2000×2000x6), big enough video 320×240 and non-cutted photos.
    I think this is a good idea to create two versions of a panorama, for example, you can make two play buttons over the preview images with labels “low quality” and “high quality”. Users with slow computers and notebooks will be able to load a lite version of the panorama for examination (the same videos, animation effects, but with lower resolutions and with lesser antialiasing smoothing); but users with powerfull desktop computers and with high bandwidth internet channel can load a high version of the panorama with quality “as for offline application”. I think this may be the most democratic way for panorama performance.
    The “middling” panorama quality will always be too slow for old computers and not effective enough for high powerd machines.
    Sorry for long answer a little off the point.

16. on May 26, 2007 at 3:04 pm martin wrote:

    You are a genius Denis,
    Looking forward to getting it all going.
    Am still working on website. The wysiwyg sounds awesome.
    Thank you.
    martin

17. on May 31, 2007 at 1:35 pm Jeff wrote:

    Hi Denis, brilliant work.
    I cannot get my webcam to show the output in the movie.
    I allow the changes when the popup window shows but I just get a blank area on the moitor in the movie.
    Any ideas as to the problem.

    PS I have tried this on my Imac under OSX and Safari, and booting it into windows XP and using IE6.

    Jeff

18. on May 31, 2007 at 8:09 pm Mark wrote:

    To get camera working, right click on Flash pano and select settings. Next to the Close button you should then see a camera icon. Select this and then select you camera source.
    Mark

19. on June 1, 2007 at 10:43 pm Jeff wrote:

    Mark thanks for the info.
    Now works under OSX but not in Windows XP.
    Jeff

20. on June 2, 2007 at 5:11 pm martin wrote:

    Denis and all concerned. Especially those searching software.
    This IS the solution for your flash vr…any vr for that matter.
    Over the past two years I have downloaded and played with almost all the software on the market. If you have arrived to flashpanoramas.com do not go any further!

    2Denis,
    Getting the images to fly up to the pano window…is that a trick you could share possibly?

    thanks again.
    martin

21. on June 4, 2007 at 3:36 pm Alfredo wrote:

    Carissimo Denis,
    mi scuserai se ti scrivo in italiano.
    Il tuo sistema è ottimo. Tuttavia, non è accessibile da tutti.
    Quando compilerai un software che consente di inserire gli hotspot ecc. ?

    Alfredo

22. on June 8, 2007 at 4:18 pm panomir wrote:

    Hi Denis and ‘спасибо’ for this very promising flash player,
    a lot of settings to play with…

    one little request: the key for zooming out on mac should be CTRL, same as the Windows version or QuickTime, not COMMMAND.

    Regards,

    Éric - Toulouse, France [http://panomir.com]

23. on June 19, 2007 at 12:47 pm John wrote:

    Is it possible to do a fade transition from one panorama to another and do it in full screen mode? I would like to do this both using a hotspot link to go from one location to another and also using a icon to change the view in an existing location.

    Great app by the way, we were about to embark on developing our own flash player as both QT and pureplayer have so many limitations, so big thanks for saving us the effort.

    John

24. on July 4, 2007 at 11:12 am Alex wrote:

    Just stumbled onto this site.
    I don’t know Flash. Is what you supply just a player? I need info on being able to load new panos (drop down menu or buttons etc). Do your files provide info on how to do this?
    Is there some kind of CMS?

    Cheers

25. on July 6, 2007 at 9:26 am Mike Windham wrote:

    Hello all, I need some help. Sorry future e-mail will be shorter. This post is also on forum. If you want it in just one place feel free to delete it Denis, really no worries. Not sure how that worked just need help.

    We are a new company and thanks to the new player business is taking off. We are running in to problems that are time sensitive. In some cases if our problems are more involved and outside technical assistance is needed we will gladly look at tasks on a contract basis.

    The person that is doing my player work is Kevin so you will see us asking questions together. He is technical, I am not, but I will be posting questions some times and he will in most cases be interpreting your answers or answering questions you may have.

    Ok Now with it,

    When I use the controller for navigation and I am looking down and I switch to the next scene it is looking down also. We can not control the parameters of the controller as we can the internal hotspots by setting a controlled starting point.

    When scenes are switched with the controller I need to be able to control starting position. So that each scene will start same place ever time switched.

    Also my images have two much shimmer. I need some help in that area of processing. Please contact me if any one has a solution. I need some processing training.

    Thank you in advance for all your help and most of all Thank You Denis Great Work let’s keep it moving!!!!

    Here is the link, it is on a mock up page now not in client site yet. Please help or direct me to someone how can help.

    Thanks Mike

    http://host.newspin360.net/newell/1229.html

26. on July 7, 2007 at 3:40 am Jon wrote:

    Mike,

    You will find in the API there is a ‘leash’ parameter to set this:-

    This parameter determines how panorama positions interact after the new panorama is loaded (using loadPano command) and before the previous panorama will be removed.

    Possible values:

    lock - the new panorama has the same pan/tilt/zoom parameter

    follow - the new panorama has it’s own pan/tilt/zoom but all changes of pan/tilt/zoom during a transition effect change new pano parameters.

    free - pan/tilt/zoom calculates independently for both panoramas

    Default value is lock.

27. on July 7, 2007 at 5:23 am Mike Windham wrote:

    Jon,

    Thank you! Kevin will give it a try it he is out for 5 days, but will be back soon.

    Mike

28. on July 17, 2007 at 9:13 am Anthon Pang wrote:

    Very cool. Definitely leading edge.

    Other places to stick FLV:

    * windows (people, cars, clouds, …)
    * fireplaces
    * aquariums
    * photo frames/paintings (eyes that follow might be a bit spooky though)
    * water effects (fountains, water falls)

29. on August 3, 2007 at 3:33 am Ariel wrote:

    Hi Denis! I´m using Flash Panorama Player for my website
    I´m trying to do something like this in “…life to panoramas”
    can you share the XML file you wrote to di that?

    thank you very much!!!!

    ariel.

30. on August 9, 2007 at 5:26 pm G Klimetz wrote:

    This is awsome stuff. As I am just getting into building panoramas in flash format this is the kicker to set my panao’s apart………
    Is there going to be a Mac Version or did I already miss something…… Windows only?

31. on August 16, 2007 at 3:55 pm Denis V. Chumakov wrote:

    2 G Klimetz:
    Flash Panorama Player has no GUI, it’s a pack of swf files and manuals. I.e. this product is absolutly multiplatform, works the same anywhere you can find Flash Player (Mac, Windows, Linux…).

32. on August 22, 2007 at 4:43 pm Rick wrote:

    Denis, looks very cool
    one question, If I buy this…
    Can i Make just as nice panorama’s with fla movies and cool showing up photo’s etc. just as your example “office” panorama???
    if that is so im definitely going to buy your flash panorama player
    greetz Rick

33. on August 22, 2007 at 6:42 pm Rick wrote:

    Ive bought it and it is very cool great job Denis!,
    but i have a picture rendered as a sphere : http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7616/al16big2rb1.jpg
    i edited in photoshop and made docks_f b r l etc.

    but now i have got weird corners…

    how can i edit the picture so i can get it right…

34. on August 31, 2007 at 11:56 pm Ad wrote:

    You could easily see this as the computer desktop of the future.

    When you have a surrounding you are familiar with, you can remember many times more items stashed away in a seemingly fysical place. You can check that for yourself on this page:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/interactives/intelligenceandmemory/memorytest/

    You will remember you left that file of documents behind you!

35. on September 12, 2007 at 11:05 am evølutiøn-515.net » Blog Archive » Interactive Flash Panoramas wrote:

    [...] I normaly don’t post much about Flash but this Interactive Panorama is really cool. It was built on Papervision3D, probably the most popular Flash 3D-Engine (but not as advanced as Away3D) [...]

36. on November 15, 2007 at 9:29 am Free Flash Clock wrote:

    Wow, your Panorama Player is really cool. It do looks like apple iphone application, can we embed it on our blogs or webpage?

37. on December 13, 2007 at 10:48 pm Raz wrote:

    Dennis,
    I’ve purchased your Flash Panorama Player, and I have a project to complete that is very similar to the one you feature here. What 3D program did you render the scene images from? I’m using 3DS Max 9 and Vray. Do you have tutorial files for this scene?

38. on December 22, 2007 at 6:20 pm Johnny wrote:

    Hi,

    I’ve seen a really cool thing done by some guys at

    http://www.immersive360.com

    (have a look at the pano on the top). I was really impressed, especially reading about their ” PanoFlash™ Technology ” - apparently very, very similar to Flash Panorama Player. And then I’ve seen this page and got a bit confused…Who’s broadcasting is that, in the end?

39. on January 5, 2008 at 9:49 pm indroo wrote:

    woah, i dont know what to say… great job, smooth animations, nice 3d rendering, i love it

40. on February 12, 2008 at 9:38 pm Denis V. Chumakov wrote:

    2evølutiøn-515.net: No, this is NOT Papervision3D. This is a special, designed for panoramas only engine. It’s noticeable faster and smoother therefore. Papervision is great and universal, but dedicated things are always more effective.

    2Raz: I used free POV-Ray renderer.

    2Johnny: immerisive360 is my old customer, you can find the reference to my site there easy. I’m providing only a player, they are providing player’s utilization (and they are doing it very good) . Anyone can do the same for only €40.

41. on February 13, 2008 at 1:23 pm GregorH wrote:

    Hello Denis,

    CONGRATULATIONS! I love really your Player and purchased it some weeks ago.

    Some questions/confusions I have about your site:

    1. About the UI: In May07 you wrote it will be available this (last) summer, do I miss something? Is is already available? Did you mean the editor plugin?

    2. I was reading in the plugin section of FPP about a new mp3 and lensflare plugin, now I found the plugins in the Blogs…are those the pluging you are talking about in the FPP Section of your side? Or are you making new ones?

    Thanks again for making the best panoramic tool available for a very good price. The support (you, the forum members,..) is outstanding too.

    Gregor.

42. on February 15, 2008 at 4:02 am seb wrote:

    wow, i’m impresed gonna buy it right away

43. on March 25, 2008 at 2:01 pm PROUX wrote:

    I had never got the free update by e-mail

    i don’t understand how u make move the pictures

44. on May 2, 2008 at 12:58 am Richard wrote:

    Does the player have FLA file?

45. on May 5, 2008 at 1:39 pm Marc wrote:

    Hello,

    A little button waits to receive a click in order to display and send a picture front of the screen (static = 1)
    But, I don’t manage to put this picture to its initial place, when this picture waits for a click again. Indeed, this picture disappear automaticaly

    This is my source

    <spot id=”image_1a” static=”1″ url=”images/mami.jpg” visible=”0″ alt=”Ma grand mere” linked=”Sph-maison” pan=”12.00″ tilt=”5.00″ depth=”-101″ scale=”0.10″ blockMouse=”1″ onclick=”static=0;scaleable=0;scaleX=0.10,1500;scaleY=0.10,1500;depth=-101;visible=0;image_1.visible=1;”

    Can you help me to solve this problem ?

    Thanks a lot

    Best regards

46. on May 5, 2008 at 1:44 pm Marc wrote:

    A little button waits a click to display and send a picture front of the screen (static = 1), but when I click again on the displayed picture, it disappear automaticaly.
    I would like to fullfill the meme effect than Denis.
    This is my source

    <spot id=”image_1a” static=”1″ url=”images/mami.jpg” visible=”0″ alt=”Ma grand mere” linked=”Sph-maison” pan=”12.00″ tilt=”5.00″ depth=”-101″ scale=”0.10″ blockMouse=”1″ onclick=”static=0;scaleable=0;scaleX=0.10,1500;scaleY=0.10,1500;depth=-101;visible=0;image_1.visible=1;”

    Someone can help me, please ?
    Best regards

47. on May 7, 2008 at 10:43 am Christiano wrote:

    Hi Denis, Hi everyone

    Really very good job. I just got the flash panorama player a week ago and still trying to figure out all the options and parameters.

    A little question, can you tell me please from where you got the photo viewer in the panorama???
    it’s amaizing. I have the postcard viewer and the tilt viewer but they don’t give the same effect as yours. Can you give me a hint…..
    Thanks in advance

48. on May 26, 2008 at 1:42 pm Henri wrote:

    Denis,
    Is there a update I missed? Cause I don’t seem to have the capturemouse.swf file you used in this example.
    IS the a update i missed or can download from somewhere?