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Trevor
07-22-2008, 08:38 AM
Hi all.
When using goUp, goDown for stills hotspots I was seeing them take the long way round going back down when the hotspots and the pano viewing center were opposite sides of 180 degrees. So now I'm using the recently updated hotspots plugin and this has cured the problem. However I'm still finding that hotspots placed near to the nadir are behaving strangely, especially if the pano's viewing angle is also near -90.
I have an example here,
http://freespace.virgin.net/trevor.pvr/garden/garden.html
go to the second pano and pan down to -90. Here the two lowest spots, statues and poem will break after a while. You may see that the still image returns upwards instead of going back down and after that it becomes inactive. Going to the previous pano and back again resets it.
It can very useful to have spots near the -90 position so it's annoying that they are not working properly here. Anyone have a solution please.
Trevor.

Trausti Hraunfjord
07-22-2008, 10:06 AM
This happens if the images (no matter from which hotspot they are taken) are viewed when the viewer is pointed 90° upwards or downwards.

Going to the previous pano and back again resets it.

Not on my end (using IE based browser on XP ). Even going back multiple times does not enable the images in their hotspots.

Weird...

Trevor
07-22-2008, 02:53 PM
Thanks for pointing that out Trausti. I hadn't realised that it happens near 90 as well and that it's the tilt angle of the pano that's the deciding factor affecting all hotspots. That's a shame as it means any panorama with hotspots visible when viewing at extreme tilt will have to be tilt restricted. I assume that can be done using borders plugin.
Trevor.