Virtual tour - Russia, Irkutsk, Sun Hotel

[ion]

"Sun Hotel" Virtual Tour

http://office.bigterra.ru/cc_ok/

- 57 panoramas (over 1500 shots)
- over 300 spots
- 3 pano quality mode
- 3 easter egs =)
- own crypted data format

[cheathamlane]

Nice!

When I first load the page, and hit the "play" button, nothing happens. The screen at left is just gray.

When I click a hotspot on the map, a pano loads A-OK.


- own crypted data format


What do you mean by this? I can load the cube-faces in a browser window by themselves, so they're readable by the browser... Just curious!

[ion]

Nice!

When I first load the page, and hit the "play" button, nothing happens. The screen at left is just gray.

When I click a hotspot on the map, a pano loads A-OK.


What browser you use?

What do you mean by this? I can load the cube-faces in a browser window by themselves, so they're readable by the browser... Just curious!

1. You can't view tour xml file. But if you can decrypt xml his incompatible with FPP.
2. On each pano side i make copyright string.

I work on crypt plugin for images. With adobe flash i work only 2 month, this slow down process.

[cheathamlane]

Hi there:

Sorry: Safari, Mac OS X 10.4.10

Ah, I see -- the XML is encrypted. Nice!

[ion]

Thank you for your comments and the browser version ;)

[NewSpin360]

Ion,

I have the same gray window problem Patrick is having, I am running windows xp and the latest fire fox.

Wow, you did a lot of work. good job.

Mike

[ion]

Ion,

I have the same gray window problem Patrick is having, I am running windows xp and the latest fire fox.


This problem in network in my ISP =(


Wow, you did a lot of work. good job.
Mike

Thanks.

[Tuddi]

Very impressive project! Congratulations to you, and equally to the hotel. They should be very happy with what you have done for them.

I don't have the gray-problem earlier reported (using crazybrowser.com which is IE based). But there seems to be a problem with the map slider. If it is moved and the mouse goes out of the couple of millimeters of sliding area the button has, it will not react. Also... you might want to find a hosting company with a better pipeline. The one you are using now is very very slow. I changed to a pano view of 4-5 mb, and it took forever to load. When the next pano started loading in the same high resolution, I cut it short. Even the low resolution panos of around 500kb take unreasonably long time to load.

The hosting service I use for all of my domains is fast and cheap, and easy to use. Just let me know if you would like to get info on it. You can even sell out portions of your hosting space (1.5 TB) to your clients (100 different domains you can host under your account).

No, I am not working for them... only trying to pass on info that may benefit others. They are not the best service available... but far from the worst I have tried. Improvements in their service have been made in the past few years, and I and my clients have no major complaints about the service for extended periods of time.

[Virtualguide]

Very nice work, Ion!
A lot of work, very nice, very nice...

Ion, is it able to share Your .xml protection tactics with us (or at least with me :D )?

[Tuddi]

Ion, is it able to share Your .xml protection tactics with us (or at least with me :D )?

:) you speak our minds fluently and without hesitation :)

[zleifr]

I can venture what I bet is a good guess at how that was done. Or at least how it could be done in the future:

Notice he is using a .swf wrapper to load everything. So you can load the encrypted xml file (and pano.swf) -> decrypt it with code in embedPano.swf -> and start the tour with this command: panorama.loadPanorama("xml_text="+myUnencryptedXML);

And I bet the built-in zlib compression would do a fine job of obscuring the XML, without requiring any porting of decryption code.

At least that is how I was thinking of doing it...

Zephyr

[massimo]

WOW BRAVO ION !!!
ciao

[ion]

Thanks to all =)

zleifr,
that's right xml encoding is simple: zlib + own algorithm (like base64).