- [Voiceover] I mentioned in an earlier movie,
a mirror ball
and this is built into Pano2VR actually.
So I can do something similar.
I can go to any one of my panoramas.
I'm still in the patch mode.
So I double clicked create one.
I should have mentioned before that
it automatically clicks in
to the nadir part.
Just like a lot of graphics editing applications
will click into place,
Pano2VR knows that we usually use the patch tool
for this purpose.
So it snaps into place into that very south pole
or nadir area.
We'll just drag this size of the patch
to approximately the size that needs to be covered.
And over here in the type,
instead of image,
we just choose mirror ball and apply.
And then we watch it as it remaps the image
and it creates a mirror effect
from the actual image
and applies it to where the tripod is.
I find it to be an elegant way
of covering a tripod
because it does use the individual image
to create this mirror effect.
But let's talk about one more option
and that is to add the tripod cap type logo.
So if you have a logo that you would like to use,
you can still use the patch tool.
Double click
and we'll choose image
and then down here choose the file to use.
This is a client supplied logo
that I can apply to that area.
And again the application does all the work.
Maps it in there for me.
So those are the three great options
that this offers
but what if you don't want to go into each individual one
and create a mirror ball
or you don't want to go into each individual panorama
and add the logo?
We can use this.
We can use under the tour menu,
edit master node
and you'll see that it's not showing us an image,
it's showing us kind of a virtual reality looking cube
but again,
we just go right down to the floor.
Go to patch.
Double click to create it and it usually snaps it
right in for us.
I'm just gonna make it a little bit bigger.
And I could choose either the mirror ball
or the image.
Of course, extracting and editing,
it won't work in this kind of situation.
It won't work for all the panoramas
but my image or mirror ball will.
And the mirror ball would be made individually
for each image.
Let's do that one.
We'll click apply
and it does take a few seconds for it to do its computations
but if we go back to any of the individual panoramas,
we'll be seeing a mirror ball being created.
So there we go.
There's our mirror for looking at the sign.
And we look straight down,
you see a mirror image of that sign and the building.
Let's go ahead and click our T-Rex jaws.
Looking straight down, another mirror ball,
so it's all set.
So we just have one area left
for our virtual tour creation
and that's the output of our tour.
So go into window,
choose output.
I get the output pane in here.
I need to add an output
because there are quite a few options to choose from.
HTML5 is the way to go
for most situations now
because it's compatible with almost everything.
So I'll choose HTML5
and I want to define my output folder.
So I'm just gonna call it academy
keeping the filename simple
because that's gonna be,
part of the internet address
that I'll type in later.
Click open.
I'm gonna choose a skin
and these are pre-defined interactive elements
that will be applied to the tour later.
Let's start with one that's pretty simple.
The simplex and that's special for the latest version
of Pano2VR.
But it does a good job
without getting too complicated.
The skins are very customizable
by using this icon here.
This icon is kind of an animal pelt
meaning skin I guess.
And it allows you to make an enormous amount of changes
but that's not something
that we want to go into now
because it's a really big topic.
We'll use the gear later
to generate our output
but let's just go over some of the options first.
Some of these are simple
and things that you can choose if you wish
so there's not too much reason to discuss.
We can turn on the auto rotation.
We can set up transitions if we wish.
Personally, I like this iris round.
It's a nice transition when switching
from one panoramic to another.
And we can have a zooming effect as well.
I would recommend leave the hotspots
as the default for the moment.
And the HTML section,
we don't need to change anything.
I like to confirm that my outputs and look correct.
It's called academy
just like I defined above.
And the control section,
there's this context menu.
And that controls what one sees when they right click
on the tour later.
One good thing to do is just to give yourself
an attribution
so I can say photography by Pepper.
We can define a URL if you want to.
I won't spend time doing that now.
And there's the advanced section.
Again, now is not the time to go into the advanced section.
In fact, there's seldom a reason to do so.
So we're ready to output our masterpiece.
Let's click on the gear icon to generate the output.
It's going to ask us to save the project first
and now it's gonna spend a little bit of time processing.
Part of the default set up is that this application
will create several different versions of each panorama
so that if you're looking at it on different devices,
it's gonna load the appropriate size images.
So it's a really nice feature as well.
And now it's built in an automatic
so we're gonna let it do this
and we'll be right back when it's done.
Automatically our browser opens
and shows us the finished virtual tour.
So this is automatically rotating
and I can also take control of the mouse of course.
Just looking down
our mirror balls are in full effect
as are our hotspots.
It shows us a preview of what we're going to see
when we click on the hotspot.
Something I really like on the default set up,
is that it does show us those preview images
on the hotspot.
And it also shows the preview image
with the check mark in the top right
if we've already been in that node.
We can go up to the rainforest
and it gives us our iris effect.
Just adding a little bit of interactivity.
If I click on the information button,
it shows us the information that we defined
as well as when I right click,
it shows what I define,
photography by me,
and then it shows created by Pano2VR
and that maybe was of course customizable as well.
And there you have it,
Pano2VR for creating virtual tour.
Let's go ahead and close that window.
And I've uploaded my tour to my own website,
kind of behind the scenes here
because using FTP is something I am
by no means qualified to teach about.
So I've uploaded it using my FTP application
and from here,
we can see it in a browser on the internet.
So it's on my own space
and remember we called it academy.
So if I just type in that URL,
it will go ahead and open the tour
the same way that we saw it after the initial creation.
Even though this is off the internet,
it looks just the same as the way we saw it locally
a moment ago.
The other thing I can do is embed that link
in another website
so my normal website,
a panorama network
has several of these of course
so it's presented this way,
same tour in all the different situations.