Cylconverter

[johnwilletts]

Can someone give the arguments for and against using Cylconverter as opposed to using a set of cubic photos?

Thanks,
John

[phberlin]

arguments for and against using Cylconverter as opposed to using a set of cubic photos

As far as I know, there's an unsolved bug regarding wrongly displayed zeniths and nadirs with the Cylconverter (see this thread (http://flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=979&highlight=nadir) for instance). So, in my opinion, PROs and CONTRAs would be:

Cylconverter
+ easy (only needs one image; no conversion in cubes by user required)
+ also cylindrical images (non-equirectangular) supported
- Zennith/nadir-bug

Cubes
+ fast
+ best display quality
- conversion to cubes by user required

I prefer cubes; maybe others see this differently?

Regards, Ph.

[ftrippie]

Can I butt in here, as I need to present a 1000+ pano proyect (seperate small proyects) to a customer?

I am aiming as well for MOVs, basically to have the ability to use other plugins like Deval or Quicktime as well. As far as I thought, the MOVs are also cubes and the FPP is extracting the cubes within the MOV. Is that true? In which case it wouldn't be any different in using MOVs or seperate cubes... Right?

If using cubes is really giving the best display quality (please confirm!), I am going to switch, because I really need to get the best quality, especiallly since I think that Flash viewing is still not entirely up to scratch with the likes of Deval or Quicktime. Even though I agree that FPP is the best one out there in flash viewing.

Cheers,
FTrippie

[johnwilletts]

V. interesting. Didn't know about this bug. Has Denis resolved it?

I don't think the tops and bottoms of my pans are as sharp as the horizons. Hence the question.

I am having a parallel discussion on the PTGui forum. Their gurus say there is no differences in the final output between equi's and cubes.

If it is an FPP problem, they're right.

Thanks

John

[phberlin]

As far as I know, it's a problem with Flash itself, not with FPP. I had a discussion about this, too, but not at the PTGUI but at the Hugin mailing list :-) It seems to be a bug in the recent Flash version. On HuginPTX, I was told that the problem was "Adobe's crap with 9.0.115. They are aware of the problem and it will be fixed in the next version according to their support representative." So I think it is going to be solved more or less soon and not Denis' duty.

Regards, Ph.