Loadpreview files

[Gandalf2003]

Hi guys,

How do you do your quality reduction when you create files for the loadpreview parameter ?
What works best ? blur ? n&b ?

Gandalf

[Scott Witte]

Gandolf,

If you are talking about a low res preview pano, not the preview track in a mov file, just make it small and highly compressed. For instance, in Eisner Museum Tour (http://www.scottwitte.com/VR/eisner_final/index.html) the preview consists of 300px B&W cube faces with a very high compression so the total pano size ends up 43KB.

You may prefer something with lower or higher resolution, maybe in color. Just experiment until you find what's right for you.

In some cases my "preview" is actually the full resolution for the initial (small) viewing size with perhaps 500px cube faces and medium compression. If someone want to go full screen I then load a high res version.

[Gandalf2003]

Thank you Scott !
In fact, I don't really know why but I though I couldn't lower the resolution without loosing synch between the preview and the "real size" panorama. But in fact it works like a charm :)

[BillWard]

Hi Scott

I was just wondering which drop down menu box that is in your excellent tour of the museum?

Bill

[Scott Witte]

I was just wondering which drop down menu box that is in your excellent tour of the museum?

It's a customized version I built for my particular application. If you are looking for something more generally useful than what Denis includes with FPP check out Patrick Cheatum's (Cheatumlane) dropdown menu. He posted early versions of it on the forum (with source code) in this thread: ComboBox / Dropdown menu plugin available for testing (http://flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=661) It seemed quite useable, but he continued to seriously develop it and offers it for a very reasonable price at Flashpanos.com (http://flashpanos.com/plugins/patrick/dropdown-menu-plugin-v20) along with several other useful plugins.

(Seriously, if your time is worth more than .50/hour and you are a really good Flash AS3 programmer this plugin is more than worth the cost for what it does.)

[cheathamlane]

Thanks for the plug Scott! -- Just wanted to clarify: Cheatham and CheathamLane.

:)

Cheers,

[Scott Witte]

Cheatham and CheathamLane.

:o

Just goes to show, I shouldn't type when really tired! Well, a rose by any other name...

[cheathamlane]

Ha, cool -- Shakspeare (depending on whose spelling you go by ;) )!
Cheers,