OK... I have been a 'stick in the mud' for the last several years.  I am a real first time user. [retract that.. I used PTviewer Scripter for many years].

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Sorry to have waited so long to try this product.

WHAT A HOOT !  Tried it out today.  What a delightful intuitive program. Yes, I did have to look for functionality.  Simply FUN to use.

Great Work Easypano Team...

Hi Dave

Well..... I guess the right thing to say is: WELCOME to the Wonderfull Tourweaver World  

And please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions. It would be great to be able to give something back to you who have contributed so much to this forum.

Thanks.  Yes I too noticed my 1.2mb jpg's are being reduced to 600kb.

I found this and am trying to build one like it in TW2

http://ts.realtourvision.com/tour/BU/tour.view.new.php?utl=BU-4195-ADZUT7-02

The nature of panoramas are that they should be a wider view.  This doesnt mean the viewer should be a boxy 300 x 400

My Tw work area is 875w x 630h.  Just fits inside a 15" monitor and under the 2 row browser toolbar.  HAVE LOTS OF free space on a 22" monitor.

The panorama screen viewer is 872w x 303h and has the thumbnail bar under it.   Maybe this is a temporary solution to use rather than trying to use the FULL screen option.

Yes, I do have some future project in mind.

Something like this:

Ok, end of day 2

Figured out splash screens, backgrounds, scene views, drop down scene selections, thumbnails, create and use buttons up, over for < > + - help and reset toolbar, and down flavor popup images.

You know the embeded link to next scene or Hotspot graphic? No not the multidirection arrows or small circles... Anyone know where they put those panorama  linking icons you can attach text that says Click to go to ____?  Its the 4 small lime green triangles. I need the graphic for the drop down Help file.

If I can figure out this software in couple of days.. I would think ANYone can do it in a week.

I would publish it to our site, it has a TRIAL VERSION Overlay.  Not even sure if it would work if I uploaded it to my server.  Few versions ago, Trial Version would only work locally and not on a server.  Has this changed ???

Hi Dave

Good to read your voice on this forum.

I was equally thrilled with the new work environment provided with TW2 and with the increased flexibility with the output.  There are still some issues however and one which needs to be resolved ASAP in my estimation.

Total controll over the image compression process.  The user should at the very least,  have the option to compress individual images.  If this is not compatable with the encryption process,   there should be an option to incude jpegs straight out of Photoshop.

As it is, the three options, Large, Small and Optimum, just don't do the job effectively and all images in the project get exactly the same treatement.

Its difficult to produce a modest project under 10mb with the existing setup.

I have partially built a few projects in TW2 and had to abandon them and redo in version 1.3 as the published product was both too large and unstable.

The latest patch seems to have resolved nothing so far.

I am still pleased with what the Easypano people are trying to do but frustrated on the progress with this product.  I have produced hundreds of tours with TW1.3 and continue to do so and I am content to think of my investment in TW3 as support for the continued development of this product which I will hopefully, eventually  be able to make use of as well.

I would be interested in hearing about your perspective on this.

Alan

I too would like to raise my opinion about the lack of improvement in TW2. It seems that the Easypano folks do not intend to release any updates for a long time. Unfortunately this mean that TW2 can not be used for professional purposes - at least not for me.

This is very frustrating, as I believe that with a few minor corrections we would have an acceptable product!

Anyone else feeling frustrated about this, please ad your comment. Hopefully we will might be able to put some preasure on Easypano so they will start working on a new release.

Best regards

Morten

Hi, Chris!

In TW 2.0 you cant. Here is one of the various topics talking about this issue, which at the moment make a lot of us dubious of buying or upgrading.

http://www.easypano.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=6&TopicID=2802&SearchPagePosition=1&search=TW+compression&searchMode=allwords&searchIn=Topic&forum=6&searchSort=dateDESC&ReturnPage=Search

Regards, Martin