Well that answers that question, Thanks Joe.

I have never tried to open a Tourweaver 1.3 .vtp project file in Tourweaver 4.0 and only now understand that Tourweaver 4.0 had the option to save as a .vtp so you could open it in TW1.3. (Don't understand really why this exists? and Joe mentions it will now be removed in the next build).

I only ever loaded .tw project files and only ever saved as .tw projects with Tourweaver 4.0

So hopefully this is your issue Pixel and you will have a happier day once you implement this process.

Regards, Smooth

Quote: Originally posted by pixelator on December-05-2008

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First things first.
Smooth, is there anything wrong with my file structure? My project file is located in the main folder but the publish files are in separate folders.

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Pixel,

To me it looks like a problem! as you are pointing to the .vtp files as being "Project Files" which they are only "part of" the project file set.(putting aside that these should be .tw not .vtp files) Each project file set includes a tourname.tw and tourname (folder) "full of contents"

The issue is you have two major components to a "Project File" this is the tourname.tw and tourname (folder) "full of contents".

Your "Publish Files" (which you really should place in a completely different directory) I feel you are publishing to the exact same directory and the publish tourname folder ends up overwriting the project tourname folder. Meaning you don't have a complete "project" set to re-open in Tourweaver.

What I'm trying to get across is that if you have a folder for the project named tourname (folder) along with the tourname.tw file you have a complete set of Project files for that tour.

If you publish this tour the exact same folder the "Publish" tourname folder that is created overwrites the project tourname folder (thus killing one (1) very important half of the Project set)

Hope this makes sense.

Bottom line - DON'T publish to the same directory as the project files and DON'T save as .vtp ONLY .tw

Regards, Smooth

 

Smooth,

I was pointing to the .vtp to point out that if it is a file that was used in TW 1.3 why in the world is it in TW4?

As stated when simply choosing save I get a file that looks like;
tourname.vtp.tw  This I am guesing is way off, as it should be either tourname.vtp or tourname.tw

I'll move my published folders elsewhere.  I am having a hard time believing that ALL my problems are how my folders and files are setup.

Thanks for the help though.

Pixel,

Mate, thanks for the thanks!

Really though, Easypano set the program up so that it would output to one (Publish) folder and one (Project) folder as default. These are the Output and Workspace folders within the Easypano install directory.

But as you can see people can get confused and waver from this structure as Pixel did. 

You would upload your published tour from the Output folder to the Internet or CD/DVD etc.

What you choose to upload and how is totally up to you. What is required is that you do not break the file structure. So long as this is kept intact then there should be no problems. (remembering only to use naming of English letters and numerals a-z 0_9) It is also a good practice not to use CAPS or leave spaces between words. Instead it should be running letters or numerals.

Example:

• Dining Room.JPG is bad
• dining_room.jpg is good
• Bedroom (1).JPG is bad
• bedroom-1.jpg is good

Now I know it is good to type with CAPITALS in the right places because it is the Queens English. But when it comes to computers and servers etc is not the place for CAPS and Punctuation.

Should you want to display correct Queens English within the tour that is fine you simple change the names within the Tourweaver program in the Properties & Actions tab area. This doesn't change the name of the actual files - just the displayed names and titles within the tour.

So what to upload?

Upload the "contents" of the published tour. NOT the folder it is published into.

This will be:

• tourname.html
• Tourweaver_tourname.html
• twviewer.swf
• swfobjects.js
• tourname (sub folder full of content)

this would make your tour address in the Internet:

http://yourwebsite.com/tourname.html (for the Pop-Up launch page to open a sized tour)

or

http://yourwebsite.com/Tourweaver_tourname.html (for the direct tour page)

Should you not want the Pop-Up page and only want people to view the full page simply don't bother to upload the tourname.html file.

It is highly unlikely you would want your tours uploaded without them having their own named directory. So you should make a folder that you want your tour known as. I.E: "beach" so you simply make a folder and call it beach, place all the output tour contents into the folder and upload.

It will then look like this on yo

Sometimes it really is necessary to write this much detail.  It helps when new folks try to do a "forum search".   Also it helps when someone asks the question.. and we can just point to the comment.

Thanks Smooth

Quote: Originally posted by smooth on December-06-2008

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Really though, Easypano set the program up so that it would output to one (Publish) folder and one (Project) folder as default. These are the Output and Workspace folders within the Easypano install directory.

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