Panini version 0.63.94 is available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/. As usual there is a Win32 self installer and a source tree zip that builds on any platform. The Mac universal binary installer may be delayed a few days as it is (once again) proving tricky to package, however it is very easy to build Panini itself on a Mac (or any other platform) that has Qt (4.2 - 4.5) and XCode installed. Full instructions in panini-build.txt in the source distribution.
This release fixes or works around two serious bugs related to cubic images, one of which only affected Mac systems. The first was a major memory leak due to my not deleting old cube face images. This affected all platforms and could make Panini crash after dispaying a few large cubic QTVRs. The other is apparently a bug in Apple's implementation of cubic texture mapping, that causes garbled display, or outright system crashes, when a cubic texture exceeds a certain size. This has been seen on a variety of OS X systems, on both PPC and Intel hardware, and with other apps. The critical size varies from system to system, but is always much smaller than the maximum feasible size reported by OpenGL. The workaround is a limit on cubic texture size, applied only on Macs, that is adjustable via a new dialog. It is a persistent setting, so you only need to adjust it once -- if at all, the default will probably work on most Macs, and does not restrict the resolution of saved views too badly. The only new functionality is that Panini also remembers window position and size between runs. 0.63 will probably be the last release of Panini in its present form. Version 1.0, which I hope to release next fall, will offer far more control of the viewing projection, based on users indications of important perspective elements. Enjoy! -- Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
