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Message posted by Colorado360 on March-13-2005 at 3:38pm

United States
March-13-2005
2 Posts

Is there a way to get anygraphic.png into the skin editor

Message posted by smooth on March-13-2005 at 10:41pm

Australia
November-23-2002
5401 Posts

Is it not supported?

.png is becoming the standard because it is a free un-licensed format. Unlike .gif and of course supports transparency

.png (Portable Network Graphic)

Regards, Smooth

Message posted by Colorado360 on March-14-2005 at 9:57am

United States
March-13-2005
2 Posts

The Help file conflicts with this??
Although the skin image files may be in *.jpg, *.bmp or *.gif format, *.gif format is recommended as the skin images since transparent image effect is only available in *.gif format.
* It is not recommended to use *.bmp skin image files. If you have used them, they will be converted into *.png format when the skin is published by Tourweaver 1.25.

I was wondering if the program just didn't add the extention under file selection. I use a program, for buttons, frames etc that uses png for transparency but not gif, I use another program to convert image to gif and the results are blocky.

Message posted by DTX360 on December-31-2007 at 9:43am

United Kingdom
December-31-2007
9 Posts

Somebody is going to love me for this!!!!

I spent 2 whole days trying to manufacture a gif file with transparency to overlay the virtual tour player. No attmept at making a curved transparency area was succesful, due to the blockiness associated with .gif files.

The png file was created perfectly with beautiful and smooth edges, but alas Tourweaver does not import .png files

Then I had a moment of madness, and inspiration as it turned out.

I simply renamed my .PNG file to .GIF and imported it in.

VOILA!!! perfect transparency, Perfect sharp edges.

I love it when a Plan comes together!!!! this now has opened up may more opportunities for me to use the software.

Hope the info is useful to people.

Cheers

Message posted by jordi on December-31-2007 at 10:27am

Spain
September-21-2007
110 Posts

yes, I will do love you if this is working!!

I've been having little quality since now, because my hotspots were gif that have not smooth edges, so I will try your experiment...

Thanks

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Message posted by Hawkaye007 on January-31-2008 at 12:03pm

United States
April-18-2007
44 Posts

Posted this in another thread, but if you type in *.png and then enter in the browse window of TourWeaver, it'll show you any png's in that directory, which you can then use. Seems they just forgot to put that extension in the file format list. Works like a charm without having to rename the files to gif's.

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Message posted by RuddersUK on January-31-2008 at 8:01pm

United Kingdom
July-16-2004
372 Posts

FFS sake ive been going crazy for ages thinking why can't we use PNG yet! but.. do they work with ie 6 without any hacks?

Message posted by smooth on January-31-2008 at 11:51pm

Australia
November-23-2002
5401 Posts

I don't think any of this is a hack as such. What happens on I.E 6.0? All the testing I have done so far regarding .png works A.O.K.

Easypano just need to add the .png file extension to the acceptable/supported image list.

Regards, Smooth

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