implementing a photomontage in a panorama

[kippu]

Basically i want to create this

 

http://www.fotogrundriss.de/vroendaal/

 

thats a photomontage inside a panorama which is then converted into a tour ,so any hints on how to get this done?

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I don't know how they did it.

 

But if I were going to do it I would map the panorama to a hemisphere, and then position my camera and build a model that blended nicely with the sphere not matter which direction I was looking. Then do a panorama render that will be compiled in Flash. The it is a simply matter of setting hot spots in the flash file that link to the next scene. Or something like that.

 

I think the ground mapped to the flat part of a hemisphere, and then pushed and pulled as need to create a seamless merge with a 3d model would work. The only catch is that you would need to a lot of adjustment work to make sure it looks right through the camera viewport, and not necessarily functional in the real world.

[kippu]

seriously have a headache thinking about how to do this

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Alternative method....

 

Several years ago we had a photographer shoot several panorama shots of a project we were working on. He then gave us those panoramas as flattened images. After some testing I discovered that if I built an american football shape, and then mapped the panorama to the inside, I could then animate a camera looking around, and there was little to no distortion of the image. It looked as though we had paid a higher production cost for a film crew to animate a camera inside of the space.

 

What am I getting at...??

 

It may be possible to render a panorama out from your scene, and then composite it on top of a panorama photograph using Photoshop. Then construct a shape in 3dsMax to map this image back onto this shape, and render out a new panorama of the image you composited together in Photoshop.

 

Alt Option...

 

You can probably use a Flash script or plugin that will take the composited panoramic image and wrap it around properly for you, without bringing it back into Max.

[kippu]

thank you travis , that is helpful indeed

 

am just wondering if i rendered a panorama at the exact spot where the photo was taken then maybe it can be superimposed without any extra work?

[erickdt]

All I want to know is what's going on here:

 

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But seriously... Wouldn't it be as simple as stitchnig together a series of photographs from the site to make a panorama and then using that panoramic image as your scene's background set to sphere mapping? Then you just create your geometry as usual and export a panorama for max.

 

As for the hotspots, view radar, etc: I would bet that this tour was created with tourweaver which you can find here: http://www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software.html which has all of these features.

 

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[kippu]

perfect erick , that should work ... that pano was done by krpano , but yea it can be done with any of those pano softwares

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

But seriously... Wouldn't it be as simple as stitchnig together a series of photographs from the site to make a panorama and then using that panoramic image as your scene's background set to sphere mapping? Then you just create your geometry as usual and export a panorama for max.

 

I am not sure the composite in the image can be done in that direct of a method. The accuracy of the model matching the boundaries set for the site is actually quite nice. I think that simply building a model inside of a sphere would cause miss register as you are spinning unless care is taken to model to the camera view, or the images were composited in post.

 

I could be wrong though.

 

I think the lower composites could be exported directly form the render, but to me it seems like that aerial would be a bit more complex.