panorama software?

[leon]

hi all,

a quick question: I used a plugin for 3ds viz once called "Smoothmove panorama" - basically it let you render a 360 degree panorama (full quality) from the camera viewpoint. Then, with the free standalone viewer, you could pan around as you wanted.....

This is just what I'm looking for for my house design project I'm working on the moment: I'd really want to be able to feed in yafray renders, or any pic in fact.

I think the Smoothmove company has vanished now, so I'm looking for something similar - has anyone any recommendations. I'm really looking for freeware software......

cheers

leon

[z3r0 d]

uhh, quicktime vr

same idea I belive, haven't used it though

[leon]

thanks, I took a quick look and it is exactly what I'm looking for....

I've seen a few freeware proggies to generate the panoramas, will see if I can get one to work now!

cheers

leon

[MrNightmare]

http://cj.elysiun.com/

There is a Blender to QucktimeVR tute there.

[gnomis]

you're looking for Pano tools http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/
and maybe gocubic both freeware

[leon]

hi all,

great: the tutorial and gocubic together are absolutely bang on perfect for what I wanted!!!

Thanks very much!

cheers

leon

EDIT: Cool, works perfectly with Blender... Now for the real test, to see if I can get a good result with Yafray!!!!

[Modron]

That is one compact little program. I've been poking around for a piece of freeware that does that ever since seeing the 'afternoon nap' thread at CGtalk. Super nifty.

[MadMesh]

I think Quicktime 6 supports cubic VR's, its realy cool you can use Blender's environment maps to create a VR. I did it once on an apple using Quicktime VR Authoring Studio.

Hope this helps,
MadMesh

[leon]

If anyone's interested, you can indeed use Yafray to get nice cubic panoramas (follow the tutorial in one of the above posts, export the animation using Extractor / Yablex). Then gocubic to produce the VR......