Viewer for Panoramic Images

[nisus]

Hi all,

 

What viewer do you use for panoramic images?

 

I'm looking for an easy workflow to render and use panoramic images so our clients can pan/zoom.

What do you recommend?

 

rgds,

 

nisus

[nisus]

How can these images/viewers be shown on a webpage?

 

nisus

[notamondayfan]

i dont know what you mean exactly. do you mean like 360 quick time movies, where you click and drag so it appears like you are rotating on the spot?

 

if so check this out http://plugins.marclorenz.com

 

its a plugin for max, and is the easiest thing ive ever used, and has pretty good results.

 

or do you mean like you have a single image, but really wide panoramic shot? almost too wide to view on screen?

if so, you'll prob need some interactive web application, such as flash. try looking through http://www.flashkit.com.

 

hope that helps,

 

deano!

[nisus]

Hi Dean,

 

Tnx for your quick reply. I meant the 360 degrees images. I'll check out the link you gave me.

 

In the mean time I've found that max has a renderer and exporter. Pitty is, it doesn't seem to work with network rendering. Any one got a clue on how to surpass this? Tnx

 

nisus

[Ky Lane]

Network rendering (as far as I know (which isnt much)) is for multi frame renders, not single image renders.

[nisus]

Well, yeah... but I would prefer to render out the files in the network, so my workstation can be used for other stuff... Also, the panoramas render 6 images (every face of a box), which is faster with 6 machines ,-)

So any tips are welcome ,-)

 

nisus

[kippu]

you need quicktime and if u save them as *.mov ... which is what everyone does more or less

if you have jpgs then you need to convert them to .mov which can be done by pano2qtvr...

some stuff here

 

http://www.renderviz.com/panorama

[Ky Lane]

http://www.renderviz.com/panorama

 

Thats awfully 'effin sexy!

[Chad Warner]

If you have Vray, you can render a spherical camera to the network, then use the resulting image as your environment map. Otherwise, maybe there's a plugin out there that will allow you to create a spherical camera?

[nisus]

MR can render spherical camera, but Max can do the panorama's itself too ;-)

[Chad Warner]

I know that max can do the panarama, but what you can do with the spherical camera is render it with backburner and use the "split scanlines" option, then you bring in the spherical image as an environment map and then use the max panorama exporter on your local machine. It ends up being much quicker.

[nisus]

ow yes, faster and split render: exactly what i'm looking for! tnx

 

nisus

[Koper]

Ky Lane, a single frame image can be rendered using a network, as long as you use a renderer that uses buckets, which most does. MR can but im not sure of vray