The Mac binary is now up too -- many thanks to Harry Van der Wolf. Mac users will want to get this, it lets you work around the cubic pano display bug.
At the same time I posted an updated source zip with Harry's corrected build script for the universal package -- you can find instructions for using it at http://wiki.panotools.org/Build_Panini_on_MacOSX -- Tom On Jun 4, 12:20 pm, Tom Sharpless <[email protected]> wrote: > Panini version 0.63.94 is available for download > athttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
