kasenyee
Posts: 78
Location: Toronto, Canada
Registered: 22 Jun 2012
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PTGui+krpano vs panotour
Posted: 4 Sep 2012 at 20:37 GMT
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Has anyone compared kolor panotour to ptgui and kolor/pano2vr for creating virtual tours and stitching panoramas?
Haven't found much about kolor, but at first glimpse it looks great that its all in all package, but seems a bit overpriced.
cheers
Alex
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KVSSetty
Posts: 84
Location: Bangalore, India
Registered: 10 Jul 2008
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Re: PTGui+krpano vs panotour
Posted: 5 Sep 2012 at 3:51 GMT
updated: 5 Sep 2012 at 3:52 GMT
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Hello,You can not compare ptgui and kolor panotour,they are meant for different purposes,
PTgui : panorama stitching software
Kolor panotour: for making virtual pano tours,its use starts after ptgui,
well you can compare ptgui with kolor autopano pro, which is
also a stitching tool.
yes, kolor panotour and pano2vr are similar tools for making vr tours and you can compare and contrast.
Here most of the members use ptgui for panorama stitching and use one of the following to make a vr tours:
pano2vr
fpp/flashificator
kr pano/panotour
tourweaver
DevalVR
hope this helps a little.
regds
KVS Setty
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Hugh
Posts: 15
Location: Towcester, United Kingdom
Registered: 24 Aug 2012
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Re: PTGui+krpano vs panotour
Posted: 6 Sep 2012 at 18:45 GMT
updated: 6 Sep 2012 at 18:50 GMT
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Hello Alex,
About two and a half years ago I downloaded and evaluated a number of packages for creating panoramas.
Although this was some time ago any developments must surlely be improvements!
At the time I was suporting and training for using panoramas to add colour to HDS (High Definition Surveying) Point Clouds and having to sort out Customer panoramas that were problematical for a number of reasons.
Some caused by incorrect operation, such as the NPP not coincident with the centre of rotation of the panohead or only the front part of a Sigma lens cap being removed reducing the field of view and therefore overlap, and some due to nature of the subject, such as bland areas with no detail, repetitive detail as often found in plant or "symmetrical" subjects.
If you are making a panorama in your back yard and it goes wrong you may be able redo it but if you are visiting somewhere you are not likely to visit again or recording and event and it goes wrong it can be hugely disappointing, but if your pano is for adding colour to an HDS scan but it does not work, it is a disaster because it is vital that the NPP and centre of rotation occupies exactly the same point in space as the centre of he scanner and this is virtually impossible once the tripod has been moved.
There are solutions from Leica and Faro where the camera is offset and clever mathematics solves the problem, but there will still be parallax issues.
I was using PTGui at the time with wich I managed to resolve all the issues, but some were very time consuming so I thought it would be a good idea to see if any of the other packages could save me time.
My findings mirrored the usage survey on the Nodal Ninja Forum
www.nodalninja.com/forum/showthread.php?2724-Stit...
in that PTGui was the one for stitching images to produce the Equirectangular or Cube images as it has great functionality and a wealth of tools if you need them.
The Autopano products were also good and have a friendly, easy to use, interface, but lacked some of the functions that PTGui offers.
I still use PTGui and functions such as the Mask option in the current version are invaluable.
At the time I had access to computers with Autodesk and Photoshop licences so was able to look at these as well, and my personal opinion at the time were that these two packages were somewhat lacking.
It appeared as if the stand alone packages are created by very clever people who, thankfully, continue to develop their packages, hone them and polish them so that they continue to evolve, whereas the big packages included the stitching options because they needed to.
If you have Autodesk or Photoshop with stitching abilities and it works for you then fine, but my recommendation for anyone looking for software to stitch images is to download PTGui and Autopano, evaluate them and chose the one that suits you best.
Once you have created your Equirectangular or Cube images and then wish to create Flash and HTML5 files then I have found that Pano2VR provides a powerful package with great functionality and options for most transformations that you would need.
It is also possible to create tours using just Pano2VR, but it is a very "manual" process.
If you wish to create tours commercially or professionaly then it is worth investigating Pano2VR Pro and Autotour Pro, but these packages are some 4 x the price of Pano2VR.
I have been looking at these two packages recently and my opinion is that Pano2VR Pro has the more functionality and that Autotour Pro is easier to use with a more intuitive interface.
Again, my recommendation is to download both packages for evaluation and chose the one that suits best.
I hope this goes some way in answering your question.
Best regards, Hugh.
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samadi
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Location: tehran ,nazarabad, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Registered: 11 Oct 2012
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Re: PTGui+krpano vs panotour
Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 21:18 GMT
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Thank you Hugh.
Pano2VR, but it is a very "manual" process.
how can create pano 360 exe for play on all computers without clicking and holding mouse for moving up down left...
many thanks.
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Smooth
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Location: Mount Panorama, Australia
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