The other day I received an email from one of our grads talking about
one of the projects he got involved while being a student at the
Vancouver Film School New Media campus.
This is part of a larger project, but it does relate to the list as
it's based on QTVR Cubics made from 3D:
Any feedback please direct it to Josh <email@hidden> or to me.
From the Josh Carpenter, in charged of the project:
"The History of the Ben Franklin" is a web site and kiosk, created
by students from Vancouver Film School for the Vancouver Maritime
Museum. One of the elements of the project is a QuickTime-based
Tour, built using Livestage Pro, and designed to give users an
interactive look at the otherwise inaccessible interior of the Ben
Franklin submarine. Users explore QTVR renderings of the sub's
interior, clicking on hotspots to either walk to subsequent
locations, or to view information and closeups of the items they
click on.
Which of the three QTVR's that is loaded is determined by the time
that the root movie is set at. Jumping to 09.000, for example, loads
the second QTVR (nested within a child movie), and the appropriate
set of Flash information panels (also in their own child movie, on a
seperate Movie track). As users interact with the QTVR, labels
(sprites built into the QTVR child movie's) become visible,
prompting the user to click. Doing so passes a variable to the root
movie (RootMovie.SetVariable), which contains an idle event that
then sets the Flash panel to the appropriate frame (GoToFrameNamed).
A compass created in Flash and set in the RootMovie rotates as the
user explores the currently loaded QTVR, it's angle controlled by a
SetFlashVariable QScript Idle event that passes the current pan
angle to an empty variable set within the compass.swf Action Script.
Zooming in and out of the QTVR's is accomplish by sprites in the
RootMovie that when pressed, trigger an internal idle event that
incrementally changes the QTVR field of view (SetFieldOfViewBy(-1))
until the mouse button is released.
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Josh Carpenter
Project Manager / AV Lead, "Project Ben"
email@hidden
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Francesco Schiavon
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