News from the Gnomes

We’ve got lots of news to share today. We’ll be doing some travelling at the end of May and we hope we’ll get to meet up with some of you. We also have three new tutorials on the Skin Editor. Read on! IVRPA – Tokyo 2018 This year’s IVRPA conference will be held in the remarkable city...

Happy August to you! We’d like to bring your attention to Hopki’s latest tutorial for Pano2VR 5. This one teaches us how to create animated hotspots within the Skin Editor. Hopki (aka Martin) uses the Rectangle element to create the hotspot image and then uses a Timer and Logic Blocks to create the pulsing hotspot: Check out...

If you’re getting a Ricoh Theta this holiday, then here are a couple of Pano2VR 5 tips to add to the fun. The Theta Tour The second explores some of the features found in Pano2VR 5 that help in building good-looking tours. It also goes over features like automatic and manual leveling as well as the fine-tuning...

Martin has prepared more tips for Pano2VR 5! He’s a tip-producing machine! The Color Tool If you work with a lot of custom skins, you might be happy to learn about the Color Tool found in the Skin Editor. The little but mighty tool lets you quickly and easily change the color theme of skin or even...

If you’ve been following our posts since June 2015, you may have noticed that we launched the beta version of Pano2VR 5. There are so many new features that we are constantly adding tips and tutorials so you can learn how to use them. Adding Google Maps One of the features is the ability to easily add...

There are a lot of new features in Pano2VR 5 and we want to help you learn about them, of course. To start, did you know that in version 5, you can animate your panorama? That means you can automate the movement (pan, tilt, zoom) through the panorama. The Animation Editor has a timeline (similar to...

We welcome the spring weather with a Hopki Tip! Have you ever wanted to switch between two panoramas that show a before and after scene or the change in seasons? Yeah? So have we. Hopki shows us exactly how to do this in his latest tip. In his example he shows us how to change a day...

Sometimes your client and/or project requires not only an offline project, but also one that doesn’t require a web browser when outputting to HTML5. So, here’s a tip that helps tremendously with these situations. It utilizes a JavaScript platform, called NW.js and just using a bit of code, you can turn your project into a...

A few weeks ago we published a short tip showing you how to extract a patch from the panorama and then retouching it in Photoshop CS or Elements with the Content Aware Fill tool. Patching with Pano2VR and Photoshop – Pano2VR 4.5 We also just published a very much requested tip; how to make a clickable...

This week we have something fun and we hope this tip inspires you to try it yourself. In this tip, Hopki, shows us how to create and blend 3D distorted hotspot images. 3D distorted hotspot images allow us to have perfectly aligned interactive images within the panorama. This way, we can create roll-over effects that give...

We are well overdue for a Hopki Tip, so here’s one that’s short and sweet! If you are using WordPress as your CMS of choice, you may have noticed that you have an upload limit for your media. This can be a problem if your GGPKG is large. Hopki has discovered a nice work around this issue;...

It’s probably safe to say that most object movies are products; items that we wish to sell or show off in some way. Sometimes, an item comes along that has wonderful detail that should be shown to the viewer. You can use multiresoltion of course, but how can you guarantee that the user will not only...

For many of us, it’s necessary to include multilingual projects to reach a larger audience. Hopki posted earlier this month, as a response to a question posed on the forum, a way to incorporate multiple languages into your project using point hotspots, PNGs, and the skin editor. This way you don’t have to code it....

Last week, Hopki posted a tip for Object2VR. For those of you who want to get a bit more creative, this tip will show you how to have a spinning object within a spinning object. This is done by using an iFrame within the URL field of a hotspot and then using a hotspot template in...

Logging in to Your Account We’ve been getting a few questions about how to log in; mainly, I have purchased a license in the past, do I have to make another purchase in order to get an account? The answer is, No. If you’ve ordered a license in the past, you can activate your account by...

Using thumbnail images of the tour images are a great way to navigate through a tour. If you have a lot of tour images, though, and want to have this style of navigation, it can get a bit tedious. Thumbnail Navigation But, back in July, Hopki posted a tip on how to do this in a...

The other day, Martin (Hopki) posted a neat tip on how to create a small preview image when you roll over a hotspot. Basically, the steps to producing them go something like this: Use the Transformation output to create small preview images. Add a hotspot template in the Skin Editor. Add an external element loader in the...

This week we released a new tip and updated a tutorial. If you have Pano2VR Pro, you can use online maps to indicate location. Our latest tip will explain how to add a Google Map (plus alternative map services, like OpenStreetMap) to the HTML template: Adding Google Maps to the HTML5 output Our hotspot tutorials were...

As you may know we recently released Pano2VR V4 beta and Pano2VR Pro beta. To demonstrate the Pro version tour builder capabilities we have put together a short video. The video is in real time and shows a five node tour being built with in tour point hotspots and a map with hotspots. The project...

We have just produced a new tip covering how to package the Flash output from either Object2VR or Pano2VR using the Flash Player Projector. This also packages the player with the files so they can be played on a computer even if it does not have Flash installed. The Tip can be found here.