Dear customers,

Tourweaver2.0 has been updated once again, both Pro and Sta available. With following fixed bugs:

1.Mute for sound doesn't work.

2.Best fit for still image doesn't work.

The problems caused by the version on March 27th have also been fixed. Builder: 2.00.070402. You can download it at: http://www.easypano.com/panorama-virtual-tour-software/free-trial.html.

Please follow my instructions in my previous thread before you install this one to guaranttee you will have a more stable Tourweaver2.0.

More free skins and sample tours have been uploaded onto our website. You can download them for your interest at: http://www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software/skin.html

http://www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software/gallery-tw2.html

Hope you will enjoy them.

Best Regards,

Joe Rao

I now have version 2.00.070402 properly installed on my machine.  The first thing I noticed was the viewer jerked more than it did before.  This happened on a version I installed a few days ago as well.  As a test I added some background music and I found the browser making frequent calls to the server while interacting with the viewer, thus the jerky behaviour.  Without the sound it appears to do the same thing. 

To prove it this time take a gander at http://www.dvt360.com/temp/tw2/output.html

Contrast that with this made with version 2.00.070301

http://www.dvt360.com/temp/tw2old/output.html

The sound file is over 1mb and may take a while to load.  Wait till it does and then try interacting with the scene.  Does anybody else get strange behavior? I use IE7 or Firefox with the latest Java VM from Sun. Hosting is on Unix

EP folks, can you do me a favor?  If this is indeed a bug and it is not just me and you fix it, can you on the next release make the wait image stick around for a bit longer?  I'm getting a lot of calls on the blurry, gray or grid from folks that are not used to seeing that happen.  I try to keep my file size around 300kb per image but if your on a front lawn under a tree the file size for me ends up being 400kb.  If I don't modify the movie to pause at start, some folks are getting all the way around without seeing a clear image.

Thank you.

Quote: Originally posted by taczer on April-05-2007

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What happened with JPEG Quality option in Publish menu? It seems very useful. (page 88 in TW Manual)

Taczer

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As I have stated before we should have the option to encrypt or not too. We need control of the compression. Tourweaver doesn't need to do any compression work at all.

Regards, Smooth

Dear customers,

Encryption of panoramic image is for the stream loading,not out of any other reason.I have submitted your feedbacks to our programmers, but it can't be changed in a second. Hope you understand.

Best Regards,

Joe Rao

Does this mean we might be able to get rid of that awful stream loading?  I have resorted to having to show a still image that says "loading scenes..." for 12 seconds to delay the start of the spin.  I have gotten complaints from people where all they see are blurry panos.  The pano images usually end up under 400kb.

I want my jpgs back.  If anything, it would be a heck of a lot easier to update an image without having to render the whole thing over again.

I agree those that say we need options for compression.  I am not at all satified with th results of my final output.  I want to have control on the compression to see what works best for each individual tour.  TW should not make this decision for me!!!!

Mel