Bardenay

[terrycm]

Fun little tour that posed a couple challenges. The biggest was that the restaurant menu was to large to view, so I this is my creative solution to view large images. This was of course only after my failed attempt to get Tommy's picshow3 plugin to work. I implore someone brighter than myself to do a write up (or video) on how to use those damn plugins because the instructions makes absolutely no sense to me. Am I the only one?

http://www.regal360.com/clients/bardenay/index.html

Thanks for looking.
-Terry

[rawtoast]

ha ha ha - I've poked around with some of Tommy's stuff ... and realized I'm not that smart ... lol

Man I wish I knew more of your secret sauce ... you're stuff is always several tiers above the rest ... nice work (and I'm just talking about the photography - let alone your sexy-sophisticated use of FFC to create your SUPERIOR interfaces).

I've yet to do a restaurant ... but when I do, I know I'll be looking at this for inspiration

Are you hiring?

lol

[terrycm]

Haha so I am not the only one? I swear some times I feel like I am reading Greek when it comes to plugins. I hope my cries for help result in a video tutorial from some kind person out there in cyberspace. The secret sauce is still not finished, like anything it keeps evolving as I continue to learn. I can't even look back at some of my old work without an emergency barf bag. But I guess if we ever got to the point where we were experiencing complete satisfaction with our work it would have a terrible effect on our drive to become better. Thanks for looking Eli, I think we should be chatting some time this week right?

-Terry

[thwohojr]

Absolutely incredible photography... bravo. WOW

[kbellis]

Hi Terry,

I'm not sure what the reason(s) may be... but all I get to see is a swatch... about 100 pixels square in the upper left corner of the browser window and it has Move Up and Move Down hotspots showing; and the mp3 player shows in the lower left corner of the browser window with Chris Mooney's nice piece playing. The Regal loadmetter is seen to start things off also in the upper left corner of the browser window occupying about the same footprint of 100 x 100.

Kelly

[supertrogg]

Terry,

Fantastic imagery again. I tried doing a hotel interior whilst on holiday. I used a Leica M8 and found it to be utterly crap! Only because I needed HDR and the M8 has no AEB! Thankfully the manager accepted that I was merely demonstrating the technology of virtual tours! When I go again it will be an M9 or a D7000!
Anyway, to the point of this reply.... I too was languishing trying to get some of Tommys plugins to work. In the end I sent Tommy an email asking for help. This was given and greatfully received, despite my asking some pretty daft questions! Now I am able to edit my projects XML file even to the point of adding hotspots etc after Flashificating, re-Flashificating will overwrite any external plug-in declerations you may have made. So I feel I am now able to return the favour to the community with the write-up below.

My understanding of the picmenu3 plugin resulted in me achieving this: http://www.leervr.com/summer2

The steps I took to achieve this are:

1. In your projects XML file insert this code. I place it just before the </global> tag so that it is at the end of any other hotspot declarations:
<spot id="pictureC"
url="files/plugins/picshow3.swf"
linked="files/visualFiles/basearea"
static="1"
align="TL"
salign="TL"
alpha="1"
shadow="1"
mouseChildren="1"
blockMouse="1"
buttonMode="0"
onOver="alpha=1,300;pano.disableWheel=1"
onOut="alpha=0.65,600;pano.disableWheel=0"
image="P1"
xmlFile="files/xml/picshow3.xml"
/>
2. Change the paths for url, linked and xmlFile to reflect your file structure. Of course, change the other attributes as you see fit.
3. Create the file referenced in xmlFile above, for me this is picshow3.xml. I give these external plugin xml files the same name as the plugin, saves confusion! In the file insert the code:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<picshow3 width="30%" height="40%" staticX="0" staticY="0" borderColor="#DDEE00" borderWidth="2">
<magnifier size="100" power="100%" frameWidth="2" frameColor="#000000" />
<picture id="P1" url="files/hotspotFiles/images/map.jpg" />
</picshow3>
4. As in 2 above, change the paths and attributes accordingly.


Thats it. Hopefully you can get it to work. For my part I had to mess around with it but I do have a web developer background!

Let me know how you get on, especially if you have any questions regarding my code above!

Finally, a big thanks to Tommy, again, for all of his patient help over the last fortnight. I went from 'what the hell is all this crap in this XML file?' to having no fear of it now! You too can become a geek like me!...If youre not careful!


Lee

[terrycm]

Hi Terry,

I'm not sure what the reason(s) may be... but all I get to see is a swatch... about 100 pixels square in the upper left corner of the browser window and it has Move Up and Move Down hotspots showing; and the mp3 player shows in the lower left corner of the browser window with Chris Mooney's nice piece playing. The Regal loadmetter is seen to start things off also in the upper left corner of the browser window occupying about the same footprint of 100 x 100.

Kelly

Hi Kelly,
What version of flash are you running?

[terrycm]

Terry,

Fantastic imagery again. I tried doing a hotel interior whilst on holiday. I used a Leica M8 and found it to be utterly crap! Only because I needed HDR and the M8 has no AEB! Thankfully the manager accepted that I was merely demonstrating the technology of virtual tours! When I go again it will be an M9 or a D7000!
Anyway, to the point of this reply.... I too was languishing trying to get some of Tommys plugins to work. In the end I sent Tommy an email asking for help. This was given and greatfully received, despite my asking some pretty daft questions! Now I am able to edit my projects XML file even to the point of adding hotspots etc after Flashificating, re-Flashificating will overwrite any external plug-in declerations you may have made. So I feel I am now able to return the favour to the community with the write-up below.

My understanding of the picmenu3 plugin resulted in me achieving this: http://www.leervr.com/summer2

The steps I took to achieve this are:

1. In your projects XML file insert this code. I place it just before the </global> tag so that it is at the end of any other hotspot declarations:
<spot id="pictureC"
url="files/plugins/picshow3.swf"
linked="files/visualFiles/basearea"
static="1"
align="TL"
salign="TL"
alpha="1"
shadow="1"
mouseChildren="1"
blockMouse="1"
buttonMode="0"
onOver="alpha=1,300;pano.disableWheel=1"
onOut="alpha=0.65,600;pano.disableWheel=0"
image="P1"
xmlFile="files/xml/picshow3.xml"
/>
2. Change the paths for url, linked and xmlFile to reflect your file structure. Of course, change the other attributes as you see fit.
3. Create the file referenced in xmlFile above, for me this is picshow3.xml. I give these external plugin xml files the same name as the plugin, saves confusion! In the file insert the code:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<picshow3 width="30%" height="40%" staticX="0" staticY="0" borderColor="#DDEE00" borderWidth="2">
<magnifier size="100" power="100%" frameWidth="2" frameColor="#000000" />
<picture id="P1" url="files/hotspotFiles/images/map.jpg" />
</picshow3>
4. As in 2 above, change the paths and attributes accordingly.


Thats it. Hopefully you can get it to work. For my part I had to mess around with it but I do have a web developer background!

Let me know how you get on, especially if you have any questions regarding my code above!

Finally, a big thanks to Tommy, again, for all of his patient help over the last fortnight. I went from 'what the hell is all this crap in this XML file?' to having no fear of it now! You too can become a geek like me!...If youre not careful!


Lee

Great write up lee, I am going to give this a shot next time!

[kbellis]

Hi Terry,

I'm running Firefox v3.16.15 with Shockwave Flash 10.2.152.32

Kelly

[terrycm]

It should work but would you be so kind as to try vs 10.2.152.33? If that doesn't work would you mind posting a screen shot?

[kbellis]

Yes! It works fine now (in 10.2.152.32

.33 ?! wow - I just updated to .32 yesterday... or at least that's what I thought

[terrycm]

I did as well, my assumption is that they realized a problem with the version which is why the updates were so close together. Thanks for taking the time out to check that for me!

[kbellis]

Are you running .33?

Going to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ offers only .32 !?!
...oh wait - I see you're on a Mac (33)

[GIOFKOS]

Fun little tour that posed a couple challenges. The biggest was that the restaurant menu was to large to view, so I this is my creative solution to view large images. This was of course only after my failed attempt to get Tommy's picshow3 plugin to work. I implore someone brighter than myself to do a write up (or video) on how to use those damn plugins because the instructions makes absolutely no sense to me. Am I the only one?

http://www.regal360.com/clients/bardenay/index.html

Thanks for looking.
-Terry

HI FROM GREECE.
GREAT TOUR.
PLEASE IS IT POSSBLE TO TELL ME HOW YOU MADE THE RESTAURANT'S MENU EFFECT?

[terrycm]

The menu took longer to conceive than it did to create. To create I simply imported a very large jpg I think this was 2000x something. Next step is to scale down the image I believe this was .35 and .35 of the original size by using the scale adjustments in the hotspot tab. Next I brought in several white boxes and scaled them to fit over the information in each section. I recorded a mouse over function that adjusted the opacity and attached this to the white box. Then I recorded a scale function for each box that adjusted the size and position of the large menu which included a reverse function. This scale function was attached to the white square onclick, and the reverse function was attached to the menu onclick. So to simplify all that is happening here is that when you click one of the boxes a function is called that repositions the menu and scales it up to its original size.

Hope that makes sense.
-Terry

[GIOFKOS]

thank you very much.
keep up the good work

[gmeleski]

The menu took longer to conceive than it did to create. To create I simply imported a very large jpg I think this was 2000x something. Next step is to scale down the image I believe this was .35 and .35 of the original size by using the scale adjustments in the hotspot tab. Next I brought in several white boxes and scaled them to fit over the information in each section. I recorded a mouse over function that adjusted the opacity and attached this to the white box. Then I recorded a scale function for each box that adjusted the size and position of the large menu which included a reverse function. This scale function was attached to the white square onclick, and the reverse function was attached to the menu onclick. So to simplify all that is happening here is that when you click one of the boxes a function is called that repositions the menu and scales it up to its original size.

Hope that makes sense.
-Terry

This is pretty time consuming stuff.

As we all know.

It would be great to be able to export often used functions then import and edit as required.

The photography is really nice.

have you been using HDR on any of your stuff ?

I use it on panos that have drastic lighting changes. Really works great, but you need more pics.

You show off !!! LOL

Regards,

Gary

[terrycm]

I agree it is time consuming in the beginning. In fact it use to take me a really long time to sort out a set of functions like this but honestly it gets very very quick after a while. I bet the menu took me about 10 min once I sorted out mentally how to do it. Regarding the photography yes it is HDR, there are 5-7 bracketed shots were taken depending on which location we are talking about. I have been playing around with different hdr techniques for the last two years now.

[Morten]

Great job as always Terry,

The design is spot on - simple, intuitive and classy. The photography and processing of the images is stunning. Again, it is this sort of work that keeps me wanting to improve. Could I ask if this is the D3s with 14-24mm being used? I have been testing a 16mm fisheye on my D700 but already own the 14-24mm and D300s with 10.5 fisheye (usual workhorse). The 16mm on the D700 does seem to give some improvement both in image detail and dynamic range. However, I am yet to achieve the results you guys are getting.

Regards,

Morten

[terrycm]

Hey Morten, yes this is shot with the 14-24 D3s combo.

[rawtoast]

Terry - what do you keep your segments at? I usually do around 35.

I'm just amazed on how sharp the tour is, but it has barely any shimmer? When my tours have an extra sharp look, I feel like my sharpening gives a shimmer on the rotation - I'm curious if you use a higher segment value.

[liaock]

Bravo !! Excellent job !! Nice pictures !!
May I ask you which ISO did you used and how many shots to get panorama ?

Thanks
Liao

Fun little tour that posed a couple challenges. The biggest was that the restaurant menu was to large to view, so I this is my creative solution to view large images. This was of course only after my failed attempt to get Tommy's picshow3 plugin to work. I implore someone brighter than myself to do a write up (or video) on how to use those damn plugins because the instructions makes absolutely no sense to me. Am I the only one?

http://www.regal360.com/clients/bardenay/index.html

Thanks for looking.
-Terry

HI FROM GREECE.
GREAT TOUR.
PLEASE IS IT POSSBLE TO TELL ME HOW YOU MADE THE RESTAURANT'S MENU EFFECT?