auto pano switch - plugin that will switch big and small panorama

[darek]

I called it auto pano switch, it is a plugin that will automatically
switch panoramas between big and small depending of panorama size (not
browser size)

if you link a small pano - if pano size is smaller than stated FPP will
open small pano, if pano size is bigger than stated FPP will open big
pano


if you link big pano - if pano size is smaller than staded FPP will open
small pano and automatically download a big one for future needs, if
pano size is bigger than stated FPP will open a big pano


if your guest watches small panorama and will go fullscreen, FPP will
load big panorama automatically showing info message


great solution for any fixed size presentation, for example you use
flashcontainer size 800x600, you link small panoramas, if viewer goes
fullscreen the plugin will open a big panorama


as the plugin uses pano size - it is useful for embed presentations (though I have not checked it)


config code:
in plugins:
layer_50 = autoPanoSize.swf // whatever layer


<panorama>
<parameters>


<lookdigital_pl_autoPanoSize>
largePanoPath=panoramas/
smallPanoPath=panoramas/small/
widthOfChange=1200
heightOfChange=900
APS_content=APS_content.swf
</lookdigital_pl_autoPanoSize>


</parameters>
</panorama>


APS_content - is a jpg/swf/png that is showing while a big panorama is
automatically loading (if pano size goes above widthOfChange or
heightOfChange)


you do not need to change anything in your own existing code, you only
need to add the config parameters and load the plugin


the money for the plugin goes to my kids for holiday, email me if you
are interested
paypal

[discocandy]

it would be handy if you gave a price for this plugin??

[darek]

plugin had errors

but I corrected them, now it works like a dream

first 3 pay $10, next $20

[LepLep]

(having in mind that FPP cost me 40$)
its looks like very (un)reasonable pricing

[360VT.co.uk]

thanks, but no thanks

think i'll save my money, for ME!

[darek]

probably, you may belive it or not, I spent on it a week or maybe even more, ok I am not very good at as3 yet, but on the other hand whatever you would need to pay for it wouldn't be good, I have seen plugins (like google map) that cost 20 Euro to use on only one domain

I will probably make this plugin free soon, but not now yet

[HansNyberg]

The panos have to match. This is easy done with leash parameters.

And easy done in XML without a plugin also.
http://www.panoramas.dk/flash/fullscreenloader/

Hans

[discocandy]

Mod notice

Prices are made by the people who develop a plugin. Let them deside what price please. Like you can deside to buy the plugin or not.



Like Darek says I've seen more plugins with that price. :cool:

[darek]

Yes, Hans, it is possible to do pano switch using functions in main xml file, the plugin then is not a must, however the way the plugin works makes the whole process extremly easy, I did it for myself rather than for selling, what was time consuming is to discover/find out what to do to do it right, as I said I spent a week or maybe more to find and ended up with 1 (one!) line as a solution

as I said, the plugin will be made free, but not before holiday

one more thing - FPP sells thousends
plugins sometimes, if there is no protection a good plugin will move round the world no matter if it is free or not, it is easy to do domain protection, but I don't think it is worth to it, as I said I rather make it free and 360VT.co.uk should have it first

[Tuddi]

Well done Darek!

[HansNyberg]

Yes, Hans, it is possible to do pano switch using functions in main xml file, the plugin then is not a must, however the way it works makes the whole process extremly, I did it for myself rather than for selling, what was time consuming is to discover/find out what to do to do it right, as I said I spent a week or maybe more to find and ended up with 1 (one!) line as a solution

as I said, the plugin will be made free, but not before holiday

one more thing - FPP sells thousends
plugins sometimes, if there is no protection a good plugin will move round the world no matter if it is free or not, it is easy to do domain protection, but I don't think it is worth to it, as I said I rather make it free and 360VT.co.uk should have it first

A plugin for this would definetily be a nice thing but it has to be calibrated in pan and tilt so that the update in resolution feels seemless,

Anyhow it FPP gets the same tiling support as KRPano it will be built into the interface automatically.

Hans

[darek]

thanks Trausti, you probabluy know how hard it was to find the solution

Hans, I do miss the "zoomify" function in FPP, probably the best thing would be to upload 5MB and user depending on resolution or zoom would download much less

but nothing is perfect
on one hand the feature above is best for us (just one file), on the other I found it really annoying the way krpano works, also its interface if sort of strange, acceptable but strange

and to make plugins really strange

in FPP we have a few functions at start and we can do with it what we want, for me, still a newbe in as3 plugin interface was really strange in krpano and understandable in FPP

I now make a tour were several plugins talk to each other, Denis helped me to change depths of plugins dynamically (without this help I wouldn't do the pano switch, even though they are different subjects), I shared this knowledge in another post

also FPP works for me much stable than krpano, it is a really great tool (actually best)

having zoomify build in you will have great feature, easy to use but I think tours will never be the same anymore because instead of having fun with watching panorama we will wait all the time for uploading another part of it

zoomify's best feature is to zoom in but appart from seing a bit more detail you get panorama out of site and the pleasure of watching a good pano will be disturbed by uploading new sprite and there is always the max - this will make some viewers unhappy anyway

at the end everyone will download twice as much as a big pano weights

[HansNyberg]

Yes I agree completely on all this. Actually I just commented to Jeffrey from 360cities about it a couple of days ago in another forum.
However if you know how it works you can use it.
It needs very carefully to select the correct cubefaces and to give the interface a fixed opening size with just the fullscreen option. Then you can get it working very well without more than the initial small cube face load as extra bandwidth.

Hans

[darek]

Hans, I forgot about one thing, the main intension of the plugin wasn't to do exactly what functions in fpp can do, I wanted more, setting then width and height seemd to me normal instead of fullscreen, but maybe the even more important feature of the plugin is that it sort of catches the name of panorama before it loads and swaps it to the proper one depending on thw width or the height of the panorama itself

this means that it works on hotspots and plugins, it actually works on anything because it catches loaded panorama not a click

then the simple "if" lets the plugin work on big or small pano, so you can link any pano as long as you give the right path to big and small panorama

another thing is that swaping panoname still keeps the functions attached to original panorama,

after your post I went to the demo and played with it thinking - does it need changing zoom or something?

I don't think so

you judge the zoom having a particular window size, if you upload a bigger panorama to that window size it might look strange, but the plugin works on different size of a window (actually of a panorama - good for embeding) and thios means that you would use the same setting on a big panorama when having bigger window size

I think, though I may be wrong as I added some movement on transission start

[HansNyberg]

Not sure you understand what I talk about. Do you not know the leash = follow/ lock parameters.

If you go fullscreen from a small size and you load a new size it should just load in exactly the same position as you basic pano what ever you done in that pano.

Just like in my demo.

It does not look very nice that you get what at first look seems like a new pano directed and zoomed in at another pan/tilt position.

Hans

[HansNyberg]

Check also Scotts tour.
http://www.scottwitte.com/VR/hawaii/index2.html

This is how it should work.

Hans

[LepLep]

darek: for your customer it doesnt really matter how fast you can write program/plugin
price divided by functionality is important

setting your price on 20 which is equal to half of FPP price seems way too high for me
like that you can sell surely less than if you set lower price

very good example are games written for iphone (thats also very specific market - it works only on iphone and is sold only by app store)
some games (i mean REAL games that you can play for hours if not days) cost as little as 0.99$, and im sure it took few programmers/designers weeks to create them

IMO interenet as distribution channel let you pass on the transport/shop/ads fees
i think very interesting way it to give sth for "as much you think its worth" like that someone pays the price which the product is worth for him/ he can afford
maybe it seems a little bit too idealistic but there are few mainstream examples: album of radiohead, some movies, books

edit:
i changed some grammar, still im not sure if its understandable :)

[darek]

LepLep, you are right

however, so far I sold one for $10, it is half price at the moment and it is still too expensive, some things just don't depend on the price unless you want it or need it

still 2 plugins just for $10 this is a bargain :)

[discocandy]

moderator notice.
part of this topic is moved.
http://www.flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?p=13707#post13707


please only talk about this plugin not about pricing.
thnx:)