Automated Tour?

[terrycm]

Can this be done? A client would like a guided tour with camera controlled moves on the panorama so it is hands/mouse free. Is this something that could or is already able to be done with FPP or FFC?

thanks,
-Terry

[VitoDiVita]

Curious about this as well...

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

The answer is: Of course this can be done.

How?

Hmmm...

1. Click "Functions" tab
2. Click dropdown selector and select "Global"
3. Click "onStart"
4. Click "Make Another Function"
5. Click "Record"
6. Click "Visuals" tab and move the pano into the position you desire, changing zoom level as well.
7. Click "Save Position"
8. Click "Functions" tab
9. Click "Recording" to stop the recording
10. Click and select the 3 recorded functions in the list (click mouse and use the "SHIFT" key on your keyboard to make the multiple selection)
11. Set the transition time to 3000 (or what you desire)
12. Click "Finish"
13. Click the created function (bottom of the left list)
14. Click the arrow button between the lists.

Reload the pano, and it will move to the desired position upon start.

This is the basic part.

PLEASE IGNORE THE FOLLOWING. THIS ERROR HAS BEEN FIXED.
Here you will stumble upon a bug in the functions...
To get around the bug:
Save the project.//Close FFC. //Double click the saved file. //FFC opens again.
PLEASE IGNORE THE ABOVE. THIS ERROR HAS BEEN FIXED.

1. Repeat steps 1-14 from above to make another function with a different point the pano should move to
2. Repeat
3. Repeat
4. etc. etc.
In the "Done Function" dropdown list you can let the first move function go to the second move function, let the second move function go to the 3rd move function etc.

Adding a timer to the movements (pause before it makes it's move) can be done like this:


1. Select the functions created for the first move function, and in the "Done Functon" you select "None" Make sure there is no function selected there.
2. copy the following text:

timer+=1,5000,,MoveFunction2

... here I assume that you have indeed named your move functions "MoveFunction1" "MoveFunction2" etc.
The timer is set to 5 seconds in this example.

3. Once you have copied the text, click the "Paste Text Function" button
4. In "Done Function" you select "MoveFunction2"
5. Do the same for other functions you have made, with times you decide.

This will all be a click and go in no time, when the "AutoTour" feature has been built.

The programmer is on his spot (which made this tut possible), and he's putting together the new mp3 player, which should be programmable for an autotour as well.

Hopefully this will be of help rather than a source of confusion.

[terrycm]

You just made me a happy man, and my wallet a little fatter. I am going to play with this during the xmas break.

-Terry

[terrycm]

Did the new release address any of the bugs with this feature?

[terrycm]

I noticed there is no "done function" after the latest update? Is this true?

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

Yes. Fixed, and thank you for the reminder!

Ready for use in version 2.0682

[ramirox3]

would be good a little more clarity on this, is very interesting,
someone can upload an example, Terry?
Thanks
Ramiro

[terrycm]

My example is in the works with this function.. it is huge (wont be finished for another 6 weeks), but Trausti's step by step works well (for small automation) and I believe with the last update he has fixed the bug and you don't need to save close and reopen. Essentially.... if my brain understands this right you could theoretically automate your entire tour on an invisible time line of sorts. So for example pano opens, pans here pans there set for x(amount of time) loads next pano after x(amount of time) information pops up, narration begins ect all set to a timer, all to create an automated tour. I should have a very impressive example of this at the end of the next 6 weeks as long as I am not wrong with these assumptions.

[ramirox3]

Thanks Terry
I will be waiting
Thanks again

[pgielen]

This has been giving ,me gray hair ever since I read about it. I have been trying to record motion as described in this thread. When setting the function to onstart however, nothing happens after reloading. When setting the function tot onload, it works. But then after 1 motion, I cannot get it to execute another motion (can't get the camera to zoom in on another detaul in the panorama). I must be missing something. Is this description incomplete?

Pierre

[jonahmiami]

Terry did a great video tutorial on this.

http://www.vimeo.com/12021990
Password is ffcmembers

Thanks Terry!