Want to make Second Life panoramas? See this guide!
Purrhaps more explanation on this later. After what came before, this 360-degree view of Here island is next. Lovely if you don't have a Second Life but are curious what it, as a 3D world, looks like. Click 'n' explore!
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You built it!
http://hackshaven.com/2007/02/06/million-dollar-idea-of-the-day/
I humbly put in a request for a full explanation.
So beautiful
How did ya do it?
Very cool! I'd love to hear how you did the virtual tour – I really dig the UI for it. It even has lens flare! I'm so impressed! Lurve it!
Yup. Caught it on your Tumblr stream (you dog for not having commenting ability there yet!) LOL
THIS IS SWEET.
I've been playing with panoramas since way back when QuickTime VR first came out. It's just getting easier and easier. I am frank;y almost embarrassed that it hadn't occurred to me to create panos INSIDE SL!
/me runs and hides, head between knees in pitiful shame!
I love this panorama of Here and nice windlight preset you have. :p
Glad I stopped by Doc office hours to test it out. Looks strange when you zoom out to the maximum.
When you have time, check out my SL Videos tab on my SL Feeds portal: http://www.netvibes.com/danielvoyager#SL_Videos
DV.
@Eric Ooh, a connection across time and space.
I WILL explain, hopefully as soon as I can figure out with Clearspace why I can't embed this on http://blogs.secondlife.com and if it doesn't come to that — then I'll explain here after maturing the process (so as to share with some degree of expertise
) The good news is this is really easy to do, and perhaps the bad news is the software to do it costs a fair amount. (Long ago, I played a QuickTime VR-based way @ http://torley.com/nmc-conference-center-panorama-in-quicktime-vr and it was cheaper, but Flash is closer to ubiquity and I like this UI!)
@Daniel You were one of the first to test the prototype! Oh wow that is some of the most extensive use of Netvibes I've seen. I like how you aggregated SLTNT!
Thanks each & all!
Tried the demo version with images from SL that I photomerged in photoshop or autostitch. I found out that sphere maps need to be in 2:1 aspect ratio. Easy to resize, but view gets distorted when you look at the top or bottom of the environment. I'll have to experiment with the "spherize" filter to unspherize the image vertically. I imagine cube maps work better with this utility. I am wondering if there are other flash utilities that do the same but for less monies. It seems simple enough. Reminds me of the QuickTime VR rooms. I need to check into this more to see if I can add hotspots to navigate to other spheremaps/areas of an island. I also podcasted about this last night. Check out the trackback for Blue Hair episode #16.
MOAR info is up, and thanks Dedric, I shall check that out!
» https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/tnt/blog/2009/08/03/beyond-flat-pictures-on-the-web-second-life-panoramas
I've gotten best stitching results with AutoPano Giga so far but it's costly.