I have a very big project to publish next month. It includes about 40 panos and lots of other stuff like videos and about 15 pop up windows.

I need to reduce the loading time in loading window (first step when you load the tour) who is really too long right now.

Can someone help and tell me what parts are loading during the loading window step? So that i can optimize...

So that you can figure out the problem, you can have a look on: http://www.en-3d.com/saint-cyr/maquette-sept/en-3dcom_cyr-maquette-juillet.html

The project is still under construction.

december 3 2010

Here is the published project: http://www.st-cyr.terre.defense.gouv.fr/ressources/visite_virtuelle/immersion-saint-cyr-en-3d.html

Thank you nerjaace for the compliment.

I guess that about 1 million people, maybe more, (in 3 years) can see this work IF... i can reduce the loading window time...

If EP's staff or any expert like YOU or SMOOTH can tell me what part of the tour are initially loading (loading window), i could work better on optimizating loading time wich is dramatically needed NOW.

Your tour takes over 3 minutes to show the first scene over my connection.

I would expect the skin and all elements to load along with the first scene before anything else. Other scenes should only start loading in the background after this.

Adding video adds another complication into the mix, as I'm not sure what or where the loading procedure is for these. I would have thought these would be a totally separate stream and independent to the tour itself.

The question are: How large is the first scene in megabytes? What is the starting/first panorama image in pixel size? Is there audio on the first scene? You appear not to be making use of the two stage display options for normal and fullscreen viewing. Doing so would reduce the time to initial display considerably.

It is hard to pass comment without having the project files and testing them. I suggest you build some testers and see where things slow down after adding components and scenes.

Regards, Smooth

The project is now published:

http://www.st-cyr.terre.defense.gouv.fr/ressources/visite_virtuelle/immersion-saint-cyr-en-3d.html

Really better for shorter loading to take video and stuff out of the tour.

How do you experience the tour?

Hello Arnaud ,

1.In loading window step TW is loading the skin and the first scene.

2.I have just viewed your tour it's beautiful and wonderful , but still takes a long time to load it and the loading of each scene is also very slowly. The reason is your tour is too large. I suggest you to add more bandwidth to your website and increase the loading speed of your website.It can help you to shorter the loading time of your tour.

Donald,

this is the website of the customer: thr french army. :-))