Teo,
I'm from that old school when QTVR first arrived, where you had to
use MPW to make the pano stitches. I also built a Director-based
presentation containing 150 panos. It was Director 4, which required
external libraries to handle the panos. Now Director supports QTVR
as a cast-level asset -- much easier.
There are some shareware products and even one free QTVR stitiching
sofware out there. Some of them work well, but none seems to be as
full-featured as Apple's. The Apple QuickTime VR Authoring Studio is
nicely graphical in the way the images are assembled and stitched.
You are also able to embed hotspots that can be used in a multi-node
QTVR or to jump to different pages within a web site or within
multimedia software (specifically Director) to jump from one pano to
another (or several different panos, depending on which way you are
facing within a pano, if you see what I mean). AFAIK, Apple is the
only software that will do the hotspots ...but I could be wrong on that.
The most surprising thing, however, is that the Apple QTVR Authoring
software doesn't run in OS X. You need classic OS 9 to run it
still. They have never updated it after the second release --
version 1.1, I think. What's up with that? When Apple updated the
QTVR format to support "Cubic VR," I expected a new version. That
was at least two years ago now. Nothing from Apple. It's like they
have abandoned the entire idea ...except they still sell the non-OS X
Authoring Studio software in their online store. Go figure.
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On Aug 14, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Teo Mattiozzi wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to start a project that require a few QTVR. The last time I
have used QTVR was ages ago, I remember I had to use MPW consol to
stitch the pictures together, then I remember Apple released
QuickTimeVR Authoring Studio, but I don't know much about it, after
that I complete lost track of the QTVR technology.
Does someone knows where is the best authoring to create panorama as
well as objects?
Thanks
Teo
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