Tabb Firchau
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Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 30 May 2008 at 20:47 GMT
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I need some help with a concept I have been thinking about. I have a panorama of a building site, and the same panorama with the finished building rendered in.
I would like to devise a way to allow users to basically turn the rendering on or off with a button in the viewer. Anyone know how to accomplish this?
Take a look at this for an idea of what I am talking about:
www.aerialpan.com/portfolio/video_embed/45
Thanks!
Tabb
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Tabb Firchau
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 19:25 GMT
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Anybody?
Happy to pay for a custom solution if anyone knows how to accomplish this.
Thanks
Tabb
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Ken McMahon
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 2 Jun 2008 at 14:30 GMT
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Hi Tabb. you can do this very easily in Flash Panorama Player using a hotspot to switch beteween the two panoramas.
flashpanoramas.com/player/
Ken
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Tabb Firchau
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 2 Jun 2008 at 20:34 GMT
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Thanks Ken!
Can you control the transition? I was hoping for a rather seamless transition from one to the other or the ability to change just the area of the panorama with the rendering.
I will check it out.
Tabb
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Tabb Firchau
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 3 Jun 2008 at 0:50 GMT
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Update:
Got a working example here:
www.aerialpan.com/temp/PanTest/Final_Render_Blue_...
click on the rendered building to make it disappear, click again to reappear.
Now I just need to get rid of the "loading" text to make it seamless, anyone know how to disable it?
Thanks!
Tabb
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Morten Boe
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 3 Jun 2008 at 2:15 GMT
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Great work Tabb,
These are very effective. Could you give us some info on what you did to get the final result? I am guessing that it is two separate panos with the new building rendered into the second.
I assume that you could get rid of the “loading” text but that it may confuse the user if nothing initially happens when they click on a hotspot. By the way, I think it needs an icon or something to show where the hotspot is.
Your ‘Video Tour’ also looks great. Which application did you use to make it? I have tried a few screen capture type programs with pretty low quality results.
Regards,
Morten
www.trueview.com.au
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Tabb Firchau
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 3 Jun 2008 at 2:39 GMT
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Thanks Morten, glad you enjoyed it.
You are correct it is 2 panoramas, one with rendering and one without. I used flash panorama player and used their "loadpan" utility to load the other panorama when clicking on the hotspot. In retrospect it was very simple but I knew absolutely nothing about XML 12hrs ago.
I agree on the "loading" after thinking about it it would be confusing especially on a slow computer. Maybe I will just try and get a less intrusive status indicator.
I also agree on the icon but could not decide what is the best way to show a hotspot. Most of the hotspots i see are really obnoxious to me and over the top. I am trying to come up with something minimal to show the hotspot and not detract from the rendering or the panorama.
The video tour was made using final cut pro and Pano2movie. I am in the process of re-making the panorama portion of the movie though because I have found a better/smoother way to make those portions using adobe after effects CS3
Cheers,
Tabb
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Morten Boe
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 3 Jun 2008 at 2:56 GMT
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Thanks Tabb,
How about a faint outline of the new building as a hotspot?
I have tried pano2movie on my PC but it always crashes when I try to load a QTVR. I use XP Pro, have 4 Gig ram and plenty of Hard Drive. Do you know if I need QuickTime Pro? I currently have version 7.4.5.
Regards,
Morten
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Philip Warner
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Re: Help with Rendering overlay in Flash
Posted: 3 Jun 2008 at 4:24 GMT
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Tabb,
Looks good. I'm guessing a flash or xml programmer could add some code to preload the second pano after the first one was loaded. This way there wouldn't any waiting for the transition. It would be similar to a rollover gif in html.
Good luck!
Phil
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