proj-imim:
Re: Why roll is good
Gummy Bear 2000-May-12 03:14:48
Adding roll to the viewer would be OK as long as:
1. It didn't affect performance.
2. It was realtively difficult for a newbie to get sideways
3. It would be used primarily from scripting.
Regarding the adjust tool -
I recall having a similar problem opening the final image
when I upgraded to Photoshop 5.5 for Windows.
I resolved this problem by moving the Photoshop folder
out of 'Program Files' and into the root directory. Apparently,
PTools doesn't like the space in the name 'Program Files'.
Best,
Gummy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Murphy" <#removed#>
To: <#removed#>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Why roll is good
> If you are rendering a vr presentation from a 3d building
> model say. You want vr scenes and transition movies.
> A regular flythrough movie would often look better with
> banking. So to do a seamless jump from the movie to the
> next panorama you would need to be able to set a roll value
> to the initial view in the panorama - maybe you could script
> a sort of autocorrect to a level view after. Vrml viewers often have
> level buttons.
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> But what also would be good for PTViewer is a smoother way of
> dealing with the stop at nadir and zenith - I think
> it should yaw sideways at the nadir or zenith like some
> others.
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> Helmut - on my PC, NT4:
> PTAverage - no joy, none of my image programs will read the
> Result image. What format is it? ....bmp. I tried bmp and jpg
> source images, same and different folders
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> With the Adjust tool -
> The dialog in the Adjust tool as to what program to open up the
> final image (a file browse) works for Photoshop4 but not with
> Photoshop5.5 - so I have to use the adjust tool in Photoshop 4
> except for Optimizer functions which work OK in 5.5 - the dialog
> "forgets" your settings when you ask it to use 5.5. This would be
> a bit of a showstopper for many users
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> PTStitcher chugs away but produces an image of the right size
> but with a screwy looking image with distorted repeats of a section
> of the first(?) image across the frame
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> PTAverage works fine on my Mac and outputs picts - does PTAverage
> work with 48bit TiFFs - I didnt try
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> cheers
> Peter Murphy
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