I have seen two viable alternatives in Shockwave:
1. The skybox by Barry Swan. Looks even better than QTVR and you can even pan ALL the way down to look at "floor" or pan ALL the way up the look at "sky". It should be at http://www.theburrow.co.uk 2. GlomTime VR-- I cannot remember the author. I just got finished deleting my copy of it, but it is more of a left and right 360 degree pan. I don't think this one uses actual Director 3D. The latest version has hotspots wired into it. If you can't find it on google write back. I'm not sure that 95% of viewers have Shockwave installed. If the plug in is your biggest issue, then I would do it in Flash, but that's just my opinion. This effect would be relatively easy in Flash, and most people DO have the Flash player at least. I saw a Flash version of this as well. But a lot of it depends on your source images. Are you using a 3D modeling package to create the 3d world, or are you stitching together photographs? -Nmuta Jones Message: 16 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:16:52 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <lingo-l> Fake QTVR in Shockwave Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a question I have been thinking about recently. The problem: Unless a computer user specifically installs Quicktime on their machine (and very few PC users do) then, while Windows Media Player will play many Quicktime videos, it won't play Quicktime VR images. There are some non-Quicktime VR players I have used in web pages, including Live Picture, which uses a self-installing Java viewer. Unfortunately, since most XP machines don't have Java installed, those machines won't show these images. A possible solution: Most machines these days, though, have Shockwave installed. Would it be possible to create virtual reality images by mapping an image on a 3D sphere cast member, then placing a camera at its center? If this would work, I assume that creating some sort of click and drag interface to rotate the image would be very simple. Is this possible? Is it a good idea? Are there any problems I'm not thinking of? (I'm not that experienced with 3D Lingo.) All I want is to be able to put a VR image in a web page and have 95% of viewers see it without having to download and install any software. --Randal _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
