Just a glimpse

[mathrafal]

I've been working this last year on producing a large-scale project in and around the historic town of Røros, Norway. The finished website will contain the 99 panoramas I have already assembled, with more coming this year.

With only a population of some 5,000, the town has been an important staging post between central Sweden and the Norwegian coast - particularly Trondheim, as well as the centre for a copper-mining tradition that began in the 16th-century and continued until the 1970s. That its buildings are historic, its slag heaps massive and its industrial heritage impressive caused it to be names a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it attracts millions of visitors every year, not only in the summer, but also in the winter where people get to enjoy the coldest town in Norway - temperatures regularly fall to below -30 degrees.

The town itself will feature in future posts, when I have finished the actual Google Map delivery, but I thought I would share this little tour of the mine, Olavsgruva, which was worked for nearly 400 years.

Equipment:

Nikon D300s
Nikkor 10,5mm lens
360 Precision Adjuste

Photographs: 7 x 8 with some very, very long exposures
Program ware: DxO / SNS HDR / PTGUI / FFC (of course )

I hope you enjoy them.

http://www.roros360.com/panos/41/index.html

Jon

[eliecer]

really nice!

[Morten]

Nice work Jon! A great job with those long exposures. The D300 still performs very well for its age.

How do you feel about the panorama loading before the design elements? This seems to have crept in over the last few versions of FFC. It really annoys me but I don’t know how to change it.

Morten.

[mathrafal]

I tell a lie. It was a D300s, which has now been corrected in the post.

It was quite murderous, as a matter of fact, since I do get claustrophobic and don't like troll things!

I have to say that the guide, who took me around for the pics was very patient, since we spent nearly 5 hours underground; she spent quite a lot of time unscrewing light bulbs etc. to keep herself busy.

As for the loading . . . I am not sure what it was like before. I have stopped using the loadmeter, since it bugs me that every time I open a project, the defaults change to the standard FFC images. I know I could change that myself, but this seems to work as well. I have noticed that the kilobytes loaded meter begins before the logo is loaded, which is a pain, and I would rather a completely black background until the pano is ready, but I haven't a clue how to do that.

More mining pics coming today or tomorrow. That's about all there is to photograph around here!

Unless you like snow!

Jon

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

The order of the loading has not been tinkered with... and as far as I know, it can't be tinkered with by default. But it is possible to use timers on the way things do appear... making "this" group of hotspots appear before "that" group of hotspots etc.

Nice tour indeed... a bit cold, but that's just because Norway is where it is.

[Morten]

The lengths we go to to get the shot Jon! It makes it the more worthwhile I think.

Trausti, could you please check with 'The Stig' (aka Proggy) if this has changed. All of my older Projects load the elements first and then the Pano.

I have noticed a change in the Global 'onStart' code. Previously, the instruction "loadmyfirstpano()" would appear. This was really handy as we could use this to add things to the end of the load (like show instructions etc.)

In recent Projects I don't see and "loadmyfirstpano()" line in the "Global start" list, so the instructions must come from somewhere else. I know it is my lack of knowledge that is stopping me from working it out. I am possibly doing something different from before wothout realising it. Any tips would be great.

Regards,

Morten

[WideEyes]

Hi

About the loading of the panorama before loading skin...

I remember from a couple of years ago that a plug-in was developed that allowed preload all the panoramas. It actually allowed to preload any file types. I use it for old FPP projects to download the panoramas for a smoother transition.
I know that you specify whic order the images / source files should preload, so I guess that when you have finished your FCC project you could add this plugin and then force it to preload the skin....

I am not sure though as I am not really that technical my self he he

regards
Morten

[Morten]

Thanks Morten,

Morten

[mathrafal]

Too many Mortens here . . . it all gets confusing! I can only say that I am glad our politician Borten Moe is not a panorama photographer.

Now, available hot off my hard disc - but not for the feint-hearted - in iosvr format.

http://tactus360.com/panos/rorosmuseet/index.html

Jon