Sorry if I missed this question.
If you can display your panos with PTviewer you can use my hotspots generator:
www.eurofresh.se/hs
If you have problems I am back online 4th of May.
Regards
Jacek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Kratzke" <email@hidden>
To: "Michael Sigmon Fallai" <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: adding hotspots
> I've been meaning to answer this post but have been quite busy. The
> easiest way to use panoramas in PTViewer is to use the equirectangular
> image. That way you can keep your high resolution cubics with tiling,
> low resolution previews, and all the other bells and whistles you can
> do with QTVR. You can do much the same with PTViewer but you will need
> to hand code a lot of it.
>
> There are three options for hotspots in PTViewer. You have a couple of
> options for creating hot spots in PTViewer. Using one method, you
> specify the coordinates of your hotspot in the html code. An easier
> method if you have a lot of hotspots in an image or want to create odd
> shapes, is to make a second equirectangular image containing your
> hotspots that plays along with your panorama. Each of the hotspots on
> is coded from zero to 255 based on the shade of grey of the hotspot.
> Then in your html code, you only need to reference the grey value when
> referencing the hot spot instead of trying to determine the coordinates
> of the hot spot.
>
> Regards,
>
> kevin
>
> On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Michael Sigmon Fallai wrote:
>
> > I was reviewing der Professor Dersch's notes on adding hotspots to
> > cubic VR to be compatible with PTViewer
> >
> > while discussing the use of MakeCubicPPC to create cubic panos, he
> > writes that the hotspot images should be compressed as TIFF images or
> > else they won't be compatible with PTViewer
> >
> > MakeCubicPPC does not offer any options for the compression of
> > hotspots - it always compresses as Graphics
> >
> > now what? I could not find any other documentation on the web on
> > adding hotspots to VR which will be compatible with PTViewer
> >
> > my goal is to author cubic VR compatible with both the QT plugin and
> > PTMViewer, including the hotspots
> >
> >
> > while I'm asking... he writes one should also make an equirectangular
> > hotspot image (in addition to the six hotspot cube faces). Why? And
> > what should I do with it once I've made it, if the six hotspot faces
> > were 'good enough'? This is not explained in the documentation.
> >
> > The document I am referring to is:
> >
> > http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/PTVJ/ptmvj.html
> >
> > see "Authoring suitable QTVR-panoramas" near the bottom of the page
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > --
> > Michael Sigmon Fallai
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