Ambient sound mixer and Video transition player plugins!

[cheathamlane]

Hey there:

Fellow FPP user and forum person Rick Workman has created a couple of cool plugins, and asked me to post them at flashpanos.com for all to enjoy.

1) The video player plugin (http://flashpanos.com/plugins/patrick/video-player-plugin-flash-panorama-player) plays linear media files (.flv and .swf) under XML control in FPP. Its main use is for playing transition movies between pans.

2) The ambient sound mixer/player plugin (http://flashpanos.com/plugins/patrick/ambient-sound-playeraudio-mixer-plugin-flash-panorama-player) manages a set of sound loops so that background audio mixes can be dynamically controlled from xml.

Enjoy!

[izoneguy]

Hello,
Those look great - but whatever happened to your Templates?

[cheathamlane]

Hello,
Those look great - but whatever happened to your Templates?

Hey izoneguy:

Well, if you can make there be more than 24 hours in the day, I might have time to make some free or low-cost templates. :)

I had hoped more people besides myself and Zephyr would be interested in helping create Templates and Tutorials to put on flashpanos.com.

Until they magically appear, about the only thing I have time for is posting here to help out and maintaining the plugins I have currently at flashpanos.com.

Cheers,

[izoneguy]

Hmmmm, I know what you mean. I can only work
on pano stuff after my paying gigs. I like the idea of
simple templates so I can get more clients interested
in producing their own panos. Most of the groups I work
with have dedicated in-house web developers and most
hate to have more things put of their plate.

[cheathamlane]

Hey iz --

I hear you1

My paying work IS my pano work -- which doesn't leave me much time to play! :P

Interestingly, I have the reverse issue: Many of my clients' in-house developers are eager to save their bosses money by doing the FPP developing once they see the basic setup... GRR!

I know for a fact that more than one FPP license has been sold to a client of mine...

[BillWard]

Hi

I'd like to play a new sound file on loading a new panorama, and have a button (or playbar) visible which will stop/start the sound file when clicked. And then when another pano is loaded from a menu then the current sound file is stopped and a new sound file starts...

I've tried the following

<parameters>
panoName = images/pano_1
panHome = 0
tiltHome = 10
zoomHome = 1.3
zoomMax = 1.7
zoomMin = 0.7
layer_1 = files/hotspots.swf
layer_2 = files/glassMeter.swf
layer_3 = files/autorotator.swf
layer_4 = files/menuFullscreen.swf
layer_5 = files/tooltips.swf
layer_6 = files/ia_ambientmix.swf
</parameters>

<autorotator>
speed = -0.02
interval = 30
pause = 9000
</autorotator>

<ia_ambientmix>
fire="sound/fire.mp3"
water="sound/water.mp3"
music="sound/music.mp3"
</ia_ambientmix>

<hotspots>
<global
etc...
etc...

<spot id="sound-fire" static="1" salign="bc" linked="images/pano_1" staticX="00" staticY="-30" url="navigation/sound_button.png" onClick="ia_ambientmix.mix=fire:0.8 water=0.1" />

<spot id="sound-music" static="1" salign="bc" linked="images/pano_2" staticX="00" staticY="-30" url="navigation/sound_button.png" onClick="ia_ambientmix.mix=music:0.8 water=0.1" />

</global>
</hotspots>

</panorama>

This doesn't work for me. I find I am now totally confused by the different methods/plugins for playing sound. Has anyone got a method of achieving this.

Bill

[clodomi]

Thanks for those links!

Do you think I can fixe my problem with my question here:
http://flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1085
thanks to the Ambient sound player/audio mixer plugin?
:confused:

[Rick Workman]

Hi Bill,

From my comments on the flashpanos web site regarding the current version of the ambient mix plugin:

To summarize, there are two known issues with the current release:
1. Don't use mixed case in loop names; use lower case. Loop names are defined in the plugin parameters (the name preceeds the '=') and used in mix assignments (the loop name precceds the ':'). This will be fixed in an upcoming release.
2. Despite what the documentation says, don't quote the url's in the plugin parameters. Although the code will remove the actual quote marks, it turns out Flash XML parsing converts them to '&quot', which the current implementation doesn't handle properly. In future (unless I hear arguments to the contrary) anything after '=' and up to the end of line will be passed transparently to the URLRquest constructor in Flash. This means outer quote marks probably still won't work (bad URL syntax), but at least it won't be the plugin getting in the way.



Looks like you tripped over the quotes problem due to my erroneous documentation (now fixed thanks to Patrick).

If you're interested in changing the mix when a new pan is loaded, I'd suggest doing it in an event handler, e.g., onTransitionEnd. (Your current XML requires the user to click on a hotspot to change it, but then you probably knew that.)

Rick

[mccoy]

I need help with ia_ambientmix.

Please check http://flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1618 , any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Elliot]

Mccoy

Excellent - Do yo do your 3D stuff. I use 3D Studio and Solid-WORKS to do my 3D. Yours is extremely good.

It says you are in Spain... Bravo, fantasticas images.

I know Spain and France are very advance on visualization and 3D graphics.

Thanks
Elliot
Suwanee (Atlanta) Georgia

[mccoy]

Hey, thanks! I made the panos in 3D Studio and ZBrush and some postproduction in Photoshop. I'm glad you like them.

Yes I live in Spain , but don't think we're so advanced here... I don't know any really good Spanish 3D graphics company. Do you know of any? All the good Spanish people at this stuff, move to another country, mainly USA.

By the way, I managed to solve my problem. I finally used mp3player instead of ia_ambientmix. I lost the cool cross-fade between background songs, but at least it's working flawlessly.