Hi guys,

I just came back from a few days in Berlin... it was 30 and just great.

I stayed at this great hotel and did a couple of images for myself... got involved in discussions with the owner... and got the deal to do the whole place. The amazing thing about the place is the fact that every room is an artwork in itself. Here's a little taste of things to come. My room was called 4 beams and is dominated by a massive bed. (please note that these are demo shots and that some of the lights are slightly blown out in a couple of the images)

http://www.einfoto.de/einfoto/360/prop/index.html

pretty cool.

the crazy skin matches the crazy tours

Very unique skin. So where the hot looken babe that should be layen on that bed.......LOL

I know you didn't stay there by yourself....

Seriously, the quality is very good. I see you used tourweaver and twviewer.

Every other time I see a twviewer pano the screen lags. The viewer does not pan smoothly. Yours does pan smoothly.

Mabye it is the size of the pano. I have a 800mhz win98 system. So the bigger panos stress my system out.

What was the setup you used?

Hi guys,

Gen Lee:

• Yeah the babe was there  ... but I thought it best to leave here tied up in the wardrobe...hahahaha.
• I used CP4500, FCE8, Agnos Mrotator A, PS CS, Noise Ninja (very good for panos), TW, PW.
• Longtime 8 sec exposure. 3 shot stich. Cam was set to manual, infinity (mountain symbol), f= 8.3. I tend to zoom in until I have an image 140x180. I only took 1 shot each 120 as it's only demo work. Thats why you'll see the lights overexposed. I did some blending work in "essen" and "rezeption".

800MHZ win98... hhmm... I'll guess you only have 256RAM which could be causeing some of the issue. My panos here are only approx 100kb, 750x1500 pixels large in size. I never make panos larger then that (100-200kb) with 300x400 viewer max size. This has proven to be the max size for the most users with the least issues.

Markus:

• Skin... well I took a photo of the sound control unit.
• In PS I "wrote" on the unit.
• The buttons... I copied and pasted one button to a new transparent background and saved as gif. Then I changed the colour of the button and saved so that I had two buttons for mouse over effect.
• Map ...I just copied and pasted the area I wanted for the map to a new background and drew a rough map.
• Viewer... I drew a zig zag line on the skin and cut out the area I wanted to be later used for my viewer. Then I pulled a rectangle around the zig zag bits, copied the whole area and pasted it on a new transparent background. I then removed the zigzag bit I didn't want and saved as a gif. Gif willl enable you to have frames with transparent view screens.
• I pulled the whole lot into TW and made the tour.

I hope that helps...

Hey Markus, Just thought I would let you know how to create the cool skin overlays. Create a photoshop document the same size as your vt viewer with two layers, colour and texture the top layer as you want then cut out whatever shape you want the viewer to look through, delete that section then save for web as a transparent gif. Then use this code in your applet code

<param name = frame value = "yourgif.gif">
and tada you got yerself a transparent viewer, you can then use ptscripter for contolrs etc, or you can use tourweaver and create a skin in that.

Cheers, Craig

Excellent tutorial on the frame here.

it says you can use jpg or gif for the frame image.

jpg didnt work for me. only gif worked.

http://users2.ev1.net/~wufdog/PT/ptviewerscripting/ptv-frame.htm