Panorma Exporter and Vray Cameras

[jinky_x_13]

Hi,

I have a scene set up for an animation using Vray lighting and cameras, it rendered no problems at all but the client is interested in have some of those 360 panoramas at some points in the animation path. I thought that would be no probs but when I went to use the Panorama exporter it told me thier were no cameras in the scene! I've since read on this forum about how panorama exporter only uses normal cameras and setting the FOV overide to 360 and using various 3rd party software to make a QTVR but when I use a normal camera the exposure gets shot to hell and is useless. I also know that the FOV overide doesnt work on Vray Physical cameras, any ideas people? Thanks in advance.

Jim

[jasondutoit]

I've had the same problem James. Its quite annoying that vray camera's don't work with the FOV override!

 

Also, does anyone know if there's any software other than QTVR with which panorama's can be created from a 360 render?

 

Thanks!

[jinky_x_13]

I've had the same problem James. Its quite annoying that vray camera's don't work with the FOV override!

 

Also, does anyone know if there's any software other than QTVR with which panorama's can be created from a 360 render?

 

Thanks!

 

 

Thanks Jason, is there anybody out there that can help us? anybody??? Or if I make a series of image at say 20 degree intervals what is the best bit of software that can stitch these together to be used in a QTVR type interface?

[Dave Buchhofer]

the easiest way is to render a spherical image and use it in the PTViewer (free) java applet in a webpage. this works great up until roughly 5000 pixels for the spherical image, after that i've had issues.

 

I've also had luck using VRWorx (non-free), but i haven't done it in several years, and the older version i was using doesn't do full spherical, so i basically had to take the sphereical render, and 'crop' out the middle 2/3rds of the image to feed into the app's cylindrical panorama type.

 

Theres also another one called Pano2QTVR that i think was a free one.. may need to look for a Pano2QTVRgui also..

 

this is all like 2 year old info as thats the last iv'e had to do it, so hopefully something better is around now but they work. the PTviewer was definitely my favorite in terms of image/movement quality, short of having quicktime and a mac.

[jasondutoit]

Thanks Dave! I'm quite keen to give PTViewer a go. The only problem that I have is that I can't seem to render 360 degree images using vray camera's...and I've become quite reliant on them! I'm not sure if its a bug, or if I'm just doing something wrong, but even if I use the 'camera override' option and choose a 360 lense it still renders out using the selected camera's FOV.

[landrvr1]

Pano2QTVR that i think was a free one.. may need to look for a Pano2QTVRgui also..

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I've used Pano2QTVR quite a bit and it's fantastic.

[bjornkn]

You could also use Immervisions Java panorama viewers (free) for viewing spherical panoramas, full screen. They also have Flash viewers as well as PDA/Pocket PC, but then you need to buy their Starter pack to pack the files to .ivp format.

Check out http://panotools.org for lots of info on panoramas, viewers and tools. And their wiki at http://wiki.panotools.org/

[shaolinfidde]

Your solution is to set all vray lights (and vray-sun, vraysky etc.) in the scene so that it looks good with a normal camera. This is of course because you can't change shutterspeed etc. on a normal camera.

 

Place the camera and use the free cubicVR found here: plugins dot angstraum dot at (hint, hint)

 

You'll get 6 sides that you can put together into a flash pano with gardengnomes vr2pano (not free, but cheap)

 

now you'll do the "normal" stills with a vraycamera and adjust it's settings according to light conditions.

 

example that I've done can be found at optimera dot nu/produkter/nyprod_360 dot php (hint, hint again...)