[Papervision3D] What other object can I use to generate a 360 panorama?

[Gil Birman]

Creating a panorama requires photo stitching. Taking good photos is the
hardest part of the process. After you take a whole bunch of photos (or only
a few photos if you have a fisheye lense), you create a panorama by using a
program like Hugin. Hugin will do most of the work but you do have to guide
it along depending on the scene....

You end up with one .jpg image generate from Hugin... load that image into
flash... create a pv3d material out of the image... reverse the material...
apply the material to a sphere... place your camera inside the sphere...
That's pretty much it.

When I created one of these I looked at the following example:

http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2007/03/panoramic_360_with_papervision3d.php

Keep in mind this example uses an improper image and that's why it looks
bad. Also, the example uses an old version of PV3D, the new version has
sphere built-in so it's easier than it used to be... I imaging there must be
another example out there using PV3D 2.0 ....

The Hugin BLOG website has some really good tutorials on it you might be
interested in...

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Frank He <hexufeng at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
> But how to use spherical panorams? I want to upload 4 or more photos, and
> then just display it in panorama effect. I searched the web for a long time
> and can not find any effective and simple way to use papervison to generate
> the panorama.
> Thanks again for advice
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Gil Birman <gil at allflashwebsite.com>wrote:
>
>> Unless you need to create an extremely large, extremely detailed panorama,
>> using multiple images is a disadvantage. This is one of the reasons that a
>> spherical panorama is the best type of panorama. Spherical panorama only
>> requires 1 image. (There is a file size limit in flash, although you could
>> theoretically break up a spherical pan image into multiple images)
>>
>> Also, spherical panoramas are easier to make and work better in most
>> situations. Yes, cube panoramas can look amazing but they only work well for
>> certain types of scenes.
>>
>> http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
>>
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