"Monumento a la Bandera" and "Teatro el círculo"

[Aifos]

Ok ok!!! i couldn´t wait... this is something i´m preparing... a huge virtual tour arroung my city, Rosario. But i´m waiting the site is finished to share it to the world.... I´m doing an exception here, showing you -fpp users- this examples.

This is a VRTour FPP based arroun the Flag memorial in my city - Monumento Nacional a la Bandera Argentina - Rosario, Santa FE. (http://visitarosario.com/monumento)

Thisone is arround the most important Theater in Rosario: "Teatro el Círculo". (http://visitarosario.com/teatrocirculo)


feed back are welcome!

hope you enjoy it


edit:
this is a new one: Boulevard Oroño - Rosario (http://www.visitarosario.com/orono)

[WideEyes]

Hi Aifos
Congratulation on the tours. They look great.

The map feature works briliantly and you show that FPP is the way to go. No doubt about it. I just wish it wold be a bit more userfriendly.

From a users point of view, I think it would be helpfull if you started the tour with an info box that explain how you use the tour. You should tell how to navigiate and tell about the different features.
I know that it is obvious to us in the forum, but remember not all people are used to seeing virtual tours.

Best of luck with the project. I can't wait to see the final result
Regards
Morten

[WideEyes]

Oh and by the way. when tour panoramas load it seems that they are only about 500-800kb. Is that true???? If so please share your settings so we can learn from it. :)

Best regards - again -
;Morten

[Aifos]

info box that explain how you use the tour. You should tell how to navigiate and tell about the different features.
Exelent idea! i´ll do it!

Oh and by the way. when tour panoramas load it seems that they are only about 500-800kb. Is that true???? If so please share your settings so we can learn from it.

Best regards - again -
;Morten
Yes!, all my panoramas are between 300-900kb
The Quality is not the best but they are good, and considering my tour has like 20 panoramas, i prefer low res panoramas and fast donwload. If i put a tour with 2mb per panoramas x20 panos = 40Mb... the cache explodes!!!!

so... how do i do to get "light" panos - goog quality?
here we go...

1 open PTgui
2 Render equirectangular 6000x3000 tiff format 8bit, not compression.
3 Open Pano2Qtvr
4 Convert to cube faces 1500px, Interpolator Sinc1024.
5 Open Down image with photoshop... remove tripod, add logo.
6 Publish the cube faces to .mov with Pano2Qtvr and this Settings in "Configuration":
-Cube Face Size: 799px
-Subdivision: 3x3
-Quality 70%
-Window Size: 800x500 (not important, i just prefer that size)
-Interpolator: Sinc1024


and it´s done.

i hope this can be helpful for some one.

cheers!

[Aifos]

check out on "Teatro el círculo" (http://www.visitarosario.com/teatrocirculo), the animation for the menu at the top-left corner
that´s my best creation for now ;)

[Aifos]

Hi Aifos
From a users point of view, I think it would be helpfull if you started the tour with an info box that explain how you use the tour. You should tell how to navigiate and tell about the different features.
I know that it is obvious to us in the forum, but remember not all people are used to seeing virtual tours.


DONE!!!
ok... at monumento a la bandera (http://visitarosario.com/monumento), i added an explaination when the panorama starts.
characteristics:
it loads with an animation
it is open for 10 seconds, then it closes.
if you open any other function -map, help, info- it closes.


and.... more magic!...
new features on map: red lights onover the spots - green lights that shows the actual panorama.
interactive information at the "canons" panorama: if you see, at that panorama, there´s something written on the floor... onover, it lights... onclick the text apears... (just a detail)... but you won´t understand anything.. it´s in spanish... ;)

cheers!

[sachagriffin]

1 error! :)
window.document.monumento has no properties
[Break on this error] window.document["monumento"].focus();

[Aifos]

1 error! :)
window.document.monumento has no properties
[Break on this error] window.document["monumento"].focus();

what? you couldn´t enter to the site? or the code is just wrong?

[WideEyes]

Hi Aifos.

It looks much better with the initial info box.
You have truly done a great job with the tours you have showed us. Congratulation.

Best regards
Morten

[Aifos]

here goes a new one!

"Boulevard Oroño" Virtual Tour (http://www.visitarosario.com/orono)

[mickmick]

HI Aifos, you have done a great job with your VR tours.

Could you share your shooting setup ? Camera/panohead and more details you could share with us ?

Waiting for your tutorials as well :) Thanx...............

[Aifos]

HI Aifos, you have done a great job with your VR tours.

Could you share your shooting setup ? Camera/panohead and more details you could share with us ?

Waiting for your tutorials as well :) Thanx...............
Sure!

nikon d80 - Nikkor 10.5
Panosaurus panhead
Tripod
PtGui
Pano2Qtvr
Photoshop CS2

Camera Settings:
Exposure: Depends of the scene... normally subexpose, to don´t burn high lights.
Focus: Nearest object.

PtGui Settings.
Render equirectangular 6000x3000
tiff format 8bit, not compression.

Pano2Qtvr Settings
Convert equirectangular to cube faces 1500px, Interpolator Sinc1024.

Open Down image with photoshop... remove tripod, add logo.

Publish with Pano2Qtvr the cube faces to .mov and this Settings in "Configuration":
-Cube Face Size: 799px
-Subdivision: 3x3
-Quality 70%
-Window Size: 800x500 (not important, i just prefer that size)

finally program VRTour with the incredible FPPlayer!

Tutrials here: http://www.flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=586