Hi h20pixels. Welcome to the forum.
Good questions - Which picture is #1.
Answer is it does not matter.
We shoot 4 images. I find that image #2 is where your center of interest should be located. So we set up our tripod and rotate the pan head around where the camera is pointing to the center of interest. Then rotate the camera 1 click stop to the left and take Image #1 at that position. If you are taking 6 images... your center of interest might be at position #2 or 3.
The reason it does not matter is because you can always position the center of interest in photoshop.
So where IS the starting point anyway.
For java display starting point it is located 50% from left to right and 50% down from the top of the image. This is position "0" or zero degrees.
For QTVR displays the starting point is by default always on the left side of the image.
So IF I know in advance which display method will be using you can open your image in photoshop and then rotate the center of interest or initial view around to the center of the image.
FILTERS | OTHER | OFFSET and make sure autowrap is checkmarked.
Then scroll your center of interest or initial view around to the middle of the image.
With Java display.. now your image will have the initial view center of interest right in the middle. Typically I start just to the left of the center of interest.. because it takes a few seconds for the visitor to visually grasp the image content.. and then the viewer scrolls to the right into my 'center of interest' area.
Regardless of where your center of interest is located the java applet also will let you control the offset for initial view with a couple of applet parameters.
For a full set of applet parameters you might consider visiting:
http://users2.ev1.net/~wufdog/PT/ptviewerscripting/_ptViewer_Start.htm
In particular look for parameters called PAN, PANMIN, PANMAX
For example: <param name="pan" value="n" > Where the value of "n" is the number of degrees offset from the center of the image = 0 degrees. Minus sign -20 would be 20 degrees left. A positive value of 20 would be 90 degrees to the right.
I will let another forum expert discuss the blending issue.
Hope this helps
Dave
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