html5 flat panorama

Carel · Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:30 pm

I know this has been discussed many times, but a forum search for "flat panorama" only gives 2016 and older results. I see that it is now possible to have a "flat" panorama in html5, I am trying to use this as a map, but when I click on a map hotspot and transition to the next (normal this time) pano, the hotspots in the pano are not visible. Instead, some seemingly random hotspots from the "flat" (map) pano appear at the locations where the hotspots of the panorama should be. I found one discussion from Oct 2016: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10917&p=44599&hilit ... map#p44599 Is this still not working..?

Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:38 pm

Hi,
This sounds like the FoV is stopping the full transitions.
Do you have a link to your project?
Regards,
Hopki

Carel · Thu Apr 06, 2017 3:26 am

The project is rather big so I have thrown together a partial version. This is part of an old vr tour that needs to be redone using responsive design with Panno2VR5 pro's new tools. None of that is done yet. I used the old tour's Flash skin in html5 as a starting point and still need to do all the responsive logic block work.
Here is a test skin with no local maps where the hotspots in the panos remain visible: http://sphericalpanoramas.com/Flat-test ... -maps.html
And here is the Flash skin I want to reuse for the new responive html5 tour: http://sphericalpanoramas.com/Flat-test/ The hotspots have disappeared, But the node markers in the "local map" are still working.
As far as I can see, the FoV and other parameters for the flat pano are the same in each instance. I also generated a Flash version using the old Flash skin and there everything works as expected.

Carel · Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:02 pm

Using the test skin, I now added a local map with node markers and it is still working. So it seems that something else in the old Flash skin is causing the hotspots to disappear. I guess I will just have to redo the whole vr tour skin from scratch.

Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:42 pm

Hi Carel,
Try and use Flash Fallback Player with prefer Flash under the HTML5 output.
Does it display ok. Flash is all but dead and a lot of the new things are not supported in Flash output.
Regards,
Hopki

Carel · Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:15 am

There will be no Flash version - only html5. The tour is rather complex with 52 panos, one large map and 11 "local" maps with node markers. I just wanted to avoid rebuilding the skin from scratch by using the old flash skin as starting point. But I can't figure out what is causing the hotspots to disappear, so will start from scratch.

Carel · Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:03 am

Hi Martin,

I finally found the problem, which only happens in html5:
When there is a mix of regular hotspot links and hotspot templates links, each regular hotspot Skin-ID has to be re-set to "hotspot". When the hotspot Skin-ID shows a greyed-out "ht-node", it will not work if there are also hotspot templates in the vr tour.

I had given the hotspots on the ("flat" pano) map a hotspot template, so that I could show only text without the "crosshairs". The hotspots in regular panos are all normal "crosshairs" hotspots.

Carel