Re: [flasher] qtvr in FLASH

[Ray Broussard]

> Hi everyone,  is there a way to import a quicktime VR movie into flash and

> export it like SWF and everything works fine????????????????????

> 

> just like this page, or does anyone have an idea how they did this???

> 

> http://www.soh.nsw.gov.au/index.html

> 


The direct link to the Sydney Opera House Flash 5 Photo VR tour is:

http://www.soh.nsw.gov.au/files/virtual_tour/vrtour2.html


The Sydney Opera House Photo VR tour is comprised of about 90 panoramas. My

understanding is the tour was originally created as a QTVR in Director CD

project. Already having all of the copy, design, and processed QTVR and the

panorama rectangles, the tour's author reported it took him 11 weeks of hard

work to re-assemble the project in Flash 5.


It is the nicest Flash based PhotoVR tour I know of.


The author used Flash 5, but I feel it would have been better to make it

only require Flash 4.


If you have a QTVR panorama source rectangle picture, size it appropriately,

JPEG compress it to your satisfaction, import it into Flash, make it a

symbol, place two instances of that symbol on the same timeline adjacent to

each other in frame zero, shift them one rectangle width 100 frames (or

whatever) out and motion tween between. Build a controller to move along

that timeline based on mouse position and drag speed or some kind of

controller and you are done with the basics.


The above Flash based Photo VR does not permit you to zoom in or out or tilt

up or down, but 85% of people looking at QTVR don't use those features

anyway. You will also notice that the Flash presentation of the panoramas

are not dewarped like their QTVR counterparts. Just like many of the

JavaScript pano viewers out there, I believe a dewarping pano player could

be created in Flash, (I know how I would try to do it) but suspect

performance could be a major obstacle.


Never mind the hit on quality and features, Flash, because of its

reliability and plugin acceptance is the best way to display a photo vr tour

online. If I ever get another Photo VR customer, I am going to try to push

them in that direction.


Ray Broussard

http://PhotographicVR.com