- You might prefer to host your virtual tours
on your own server.
Let's take a quick glance at some of those options.
- [Voiceover] This application is called Pano2VR.
It's a powerful desktop application
for building virtual tours but when you use
this kind of application and need to have
your own server space to where you can upload the tour
but let's go ahead and build ourselves a basic virtual tour.
We use a lot of the default settings
and we'll just go into depth in a couple of areas.
I'm going to use these six panoramas
by clicking the input icon
and just choosing them in the finder.
So it'll quickly load these preview images of the tour.
This is a tour of the California Academy of Sciences
and we're starting out here by the dinosaur bones.
The first step is to organize the panoramas and rename them
the way you want them to be seen by the viewer.
You can see down here that I used somewhat funny filenames
because there was a lot of panoramas in the project
and then the client just choose some of them.
So I have a lot of funny number and things that need to go.
So I need to click this icon here, user data,
or I can also go to the windows menu and choose user data.
The title is a seperate title for each individual panorama
so let's go ahead and add those.
I'm gonna call this the T-Rex jaws.
There's another one below the T-Rex so
I'll call that something similar.
Now that's individual for this panorama
where the description, which I'll call
the Academy of Sciences
applies to all the panoramas
so I'll click this icon here that's called
copy description to all nodes in the tour
and you can note that Pano2VR calls
an individual panorama, a node
Same thing for the author, it applies to all
so I'll click that icon.
The date and time, I'm just gonna put something quick
and same thing for the copyright.
Apply to all and we'll move on, we won't fill in
these other fields but of course they're optional.
Now go through each one and you notice that
most of the information is filled in because I chosen that
and I just have to chose a name for each one.
This one is down below the jaws of the T-Rex
so let's call that Below the T-Rex.
This one, I was calling the Rainforest.
Here's the Aquarium.
This one is the Living Roof
and the Entrance and Sign.
Okay, now we're ready there.
That's the boring part, now we can move on to the fun parts.
Let's go ahead and close this section,
again, we want to keep giving ourselves
some more space to work.
Okay, so we have this preview of the image
and I can drag this down a bit as well I believe, yes.
Now really quickly we can right click
and choose this as the start panorama.
That way when the tour initially opens,
the viewer sees the entrance and the sign.
I also want to right click the image
and then I can set the default view.
I can do that for each one.
I can also add hot spots so that I can move between
each of the nodes or panoramas.
So we do that with this section.
If I hover over the icon,
I have several other options and we're gonna talk about
a couple of them somewhat in depth.
One of them will be this point hot spot
or I can hit P on the keyboard
and you see the icon changes to the point.
Now I'll double click, over here by the doors.
The T-Rex is just inside there.
So I want to go over here on the left.
Now that I've chosen my hot spot,
it opens up the hot spot properties.
I can put in a title, T-Rex, so that will show as the user
hovers over the hot spot.
Down here, Link Target Type,
I want to go to another tour node
and which one I want to go to,
let's go to below the T-Rex
and that's done.
Now we can move in here to below the T-Rex.
We can look back toward the entrance.
Oop, it's the other way, that was the back door.
Double click again and we do the same thing.
Entrance, the same thing except the other way around.
Tour node and Entrance and Sign.
So now we have a two way hot spot.
Something offered in the pro version of this application
is the ability to drag the images
from this bottom tour browser area into the image
and it creates a hot spot automatically.
I really like this feature because it reduces
the amount of typing and the amount of clicks.
So its filled in, our title, automatically.
Its filled in, our linked target type,
and the link target node in this case.
These exclamation points on the images below
are showing that they do not have
all of the incoming or outgoing hot spots.
That's helpful because it'll help us
that we don't leave any of the individual nodes
without any connections making it harder
for the viewer to get there.
So I can go quickly along in either way.
I can drag the T-Rex jaws up here.
Creates a hot spot quickly and automatically.
I can go up to the T-Rex jaws and create hot spots
to get out of this panorama as well.
Below the T-Rex here
we'll put the Rainforest over here.
We'll go ahead and put the aquarium as well.
The entrance.
We can move on to the Rainforest.
There is a link to come in.
We can add some to go out back to the entrance.
Back to the T-Rex
and I believe the roof is this way.
Let's quickly add a couple more hot spots
just to finish our tour so that we can move on.
I don't recall if that was the way
to the entrance or not to be honest.
Put the roof this way and the T-Rex as well.
Okay, plenty of ht spots to get around our tour.
The area that I want to cover a bit in depth
in this particular application is a few options
of handling the tripod and the reason just that
panel to the R offers at least three very good options.
Let's go back to our T-Rex panorama
and talk about the first option.
We're just zooming in slightly.
Just using the scroll wheel on the mouse.
Now go over here, back to our tools
and this time chose the band-aid icon for patches.
Now when I double click to create a patch
it shows me this semi-transparent icon
and I can resize it,
I can rotate it by using this inner circle
clicking and dragging the mouse.
Make it a little bit bigger
and the first option I want to show you here
is to click on extract
and by doing that, it extracts that section
that I identified and it opens it in Photoshop
because I have that set as my default graphics application.
From here, as long as you're comfortable with editing
and cloning and retouching, you can use your favorite method
of editing out the tripod.
Content-Aware Fill is a wonderful tool.
We're just gonna deselect.
Now we're not talking about
how to use Photoshop right now but I'll go ahead
and just add in these lines really quickly.
Very imperfect.
Just so it's not obvious.
Okay, there we go.
Somewhat patched nadir area.
We'll go ahead and save the image and close Photoshop.
Now watch as Pano2VR just fills in that area
that we extracted before.
Okay, we have a patched nadir area.
Looks very nice for such a quick job that we did.
Alright, that's one option if I wanted to go into each one
of the individual panoramas and spend time
retouching that area but there's a couple of other options.