Panoramic Image Viewer Module

[skidrash]

Alright, here is my Panoramic Image Viewer module.  This module can be used to display a 360 degree, rotating panoramic image via PTviewer. The viewer can zoom in/out, look up/down, and left/right.  You can use the free software Autostitch to make your own pan images.  Get it here: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Configuration is pretty straight forward.  I should mention that the "Location of Image" field must be pointing to a image on your server.  My intent was to make it so you could link to an image you may have saved on another webspace, however from my tests it appears the viewer will only load an image from your own site (let me know if you find otherwise).  I included a printed URL to your media directory for easy copy and pasting.

Please give it a try.  I don't intend on adding any more features at this time, but I'll try to address any problems people may come up with.  If I don't hear about any problems in the next few days I will post this in the completed modules section.

Some excellent images you can download to try out are...
  Massive panoramic from Autostitch's site:
  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/serratus.jpg

  Very cool spherical panoramic from autopano.net:
  http://www.autopano.net/images/gallery/VNG_sample1_chatedrale.jpg

  Another incredible spherical panoramic from Autostitch:
  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/panogallery/green2Large.jpg

~skidrash
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[kweitzel]

will give it a try ... If I find a panorama ... maybe I just take my "office"  ...

cheers

Klaus

[kweitzel]

great ... see it in action here: http://weitzel.hobby-site.com/pages/panorama.php

One question: How do you actually restart the automatic "scrolling" of the image, once you tried to manually move the picture?

cheers

Klaus

[skidrash]

I think it can be done using the function "startAutoPan".  Look in Advanced/resources for more information on it.  It is a javascript function, not a parameter, so I believe  you would have to put it in the page source.  Probably as an onclick javascript in a button.  I haven't tried it, but you could try creating a Panoramice Image section, and than a code section under(or above it), and than just insert a <input type="button"...... onclick="javascript: 'startAutoPan().......   Something to that effect.

Does that make any sense?

~skidrash

[kweitzel]

yeah ... I know where you are comming from ...

cheers

Klaus

[MrRedlich]

First I saw that extension, I want to kiss your ass because that extension is exactly that what i wanted!!!!   

I have tested it and saw only a red box... after i had read that text

My intent was to make it so you could link to an image you may have saved on another webspace, however from my tests it appears the viewer will only load an image from your own site

I began to CRY     Panorama Picturs are too big to store them on my real domainwebspace so i use some freehosters to host most pictures to decrease expensive traffic.

Can you please make 1.01 with support for external Pictures?? 

[skidrash]

Yeah the red box is from trying to load an external image.  To be honest I'm not sure what is causing it...  I will be out of town this week, but when I get back I will take another look at it and see if I can figure it out.  Does anyone have any suggestions on why this happens? (basically when you try to load an image store on a different server you just get a red box where the image should be). 

~skidrash