Panorama viewers

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Hi all!

Does anybody have experience with any panorama viewer? Which are the best in order to be redistributable across clients (let's mean free, light, easy-to-use, etc)? What's the best image format (jpeg, png) to be saved into ImageEditor for panoramas?

Thanks!

[Barry Thomas]

The old smoothmove pan viewer is free and lightweight....small footprint

edit: I had posted a link that turned out to be a dead end. Looked on one of my workstations and found this loaded...seems to work ok: http://www.wpanorama.com/wpanorama.php?r=1315491526

 

There are others though, here's a link to many of the threads that have discussed this topic, 

http://www.accurender.com/page/search-results?cx=007664031582976519...

 

BW

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Thanks Thomas,

actually the old beloved Smoothmove doesn't work on Win7 64 bit. And all the products on the link you submitted are much more than a simple "rude" pan viewer...

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I don't have much experience with any of these-- but there are a pile of them out there.  Most of the basic ones are free.

 

http://wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_Viewers

 

Some of them can do self-executing files.

 

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Thanks Roy, I'll have a look at some of them.

[Wayne Williamson]

I currently have SmoothMove Pan Viewer version 5.0 running on my Windows 7 64 bit machine, I've never encountered any problems with it. You might look at the properties tab on the executable file and tell it to run as a 32 bit application. Just a thought. I have been able to pick up the the .jpgs that NXT produces and just change the extension to .pan & they run fine.

[Barry Thomas]

Great info Wayne...thankyou!

 

Whereas the Smoothmove installer will not run setup on a 64-bit machine, you can install the program on a 32-bit machine, then copy the entire Infinite Pictures folder to the Program Files (x86 )folder on a 64-bit machine. Works on both XP64 and Win7 64.

 

 

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Thanks Barry, I'll try this option on a virtual machine with 32bit OS.

Anyway, FSPViewer works perfectly like SmoothMove.

[akinlolu olugboji]

How did you do it? where did you specify it to install as a 32 bit application?

[Barry Thomas]

akinlolu, It will NOT install as a 32bit app on a 64bit machine. You must run the installer on a 32bit OS and then copy the installed folder from the 32bit machine to the program files (x86) folder on your 64bit machine. Create a desktop shortcut, and you should be good to go.

 

BW

[akinlolu olugboji]

Thanks