Automatic tour, can this be done???

[Ignacio Ferrando]

Hello,

I just do a project of 5 VRs and my customer wants to get some functionalities on the visit. I have done these kind of things on QTVR with Livestage Pro but I'm not sure if it's possible with FPP. This is the situation:

- I have 5 VRs
- there are 12 distorted hotspots on the VRs, they are always visible and when the user click on each hotspot there is a .swf slideshow that have to be loaded. The .swf will be the same for all the hotspots but the pictures loaded will change with an XML file...
- I have also an SWF map that have 5 buttons to let the user to change the node and also 12 buttons that allows the user to get the view of the pano straight to the hotspot... the map can be show/hide with a button...

all these things I think that it's possible to do... but now...

my customer wants an "automatic" mode on the visit.. on this way :

- there is an intro swf that load with text and video... at the end...
- the first node is show and the view changes to get the hotspot 1 on the view... then...
- the slideshow loads with the photos asociated to the hotspot1, when the slideshow finish....
- the view changes to the second hotspot.... load of the second slideshow...

and the same with the rest of the hotspots...

anytime the user could stop the auto tour and get it manual...




as I have not many time to do this I will be really happy if you can help me:

- It's possible to do with FPP
- How FPP could know when the slideshow of any swf is finished??
- will be memory problems


thanks a lot

[Astroman]

I think it can be done. The only problem cld be the "Slideshow" cause i dunno how the Player cld know that the slideshow is over. I guess that wld be possible if u wld write a plugin for a slideshow. The quick and dirty way cld be a countdown. I donґt think that there are memory problems if u keep care of the files sizes while exporting.

[hyung]

Hi Ignacio,

I am currently having a similar problem and still I haven't found the right solution but I believe your automatic tour is possible via Flash's "LocalConnection" between FPP's hotspot plugin and your hotspots (.swf). You need knowledge in Flash development (+Actionscript). In order to communicate among flash applications, there is an interface called "LocalConnection" which allows FPP's hotspot plugin to communicate with your own plugins. I just started to study Flash so I can't tell you details about it but I am quite sure that "LocalConnection" is the solution and you need to write some codes in your own hotspots (.swf).

Hyung.

[Ignacio Ferrando]

Hi Hyung,

I think that this will be a good solution... the problem is that with this solution I don't know how to store an use variables like with pano is active...

thanks