Nxt Panorama Viewer

[David Austin]

My clients love panoramas for discussions. Previous panoramas from AccuRender were viewable with QuickTime. However I'm not having any luck with Nxt panoramas. Can anyone suggest an alternative viewer or file format that can be used?
Thanks

Dave

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Lots of them out there-- here's a classic basic freebie.

[Ros. Riha]

I do not know capabilities of this one. We use Autopano ... it enables you to save panorama into flash and other formats. Autopano is also useful to create panoramas from real photographs. After trying multiple panorama creators/viewers I can only recommend this one.

[David Austin]

Thanks Roy- What I've run into is client's not wanting to install anything they haven't heard of before.
Often times they need to contact Tech services department to run an .exe file.
That was why QuickTime was working for me.

[Ros. Riha]

check the above post - autopano enables you to save into flash, so no exe has to be installed

[David Austin]

Autopano looks interesting but can't get my jpg panorama to import.......it wants more images.
I'll keep playing with it. Here is my file

[Ros. Riha]

it is simple - autopano is primarily the panoram stitcher: you feed it with plenty of jpgs and it creates a panorama for you... and allows you to save it into multiple formats.

What we do:

1. We set 3D Slideshow in nXt and render say 10 images

2. We stitch them in autopano

3. We save them out as flash, single jpg...whatever

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I'm not sure what you're asking for then.  If you're sold on QTVR (you shouldn't be)-- these guys claim to translate any panoramic image into QTVR format.

Here's a cheaper one.

[David Austin]

Okay I got it-- get multiple images from rendering a slide show (not using the pano generated by Nxt)  I think I already have Pano2QTVR. Roy- what is your thinking re: QTVR?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

You definitely don't need a panorama stitcher-- nXt does panoramic projections directly (as I think you're aware of.) 

 

There's certainly nothing wrong with QTVR-- there are just many other alternatives to .mov files these days.  The PTViewer.exe is extremely simple and runs jpgs or other images directly.  They have Java and other browser versions as well.  Flash can obviously display these files-- not sure of the exact mechanics here. 

 

Here's an IRender nXt user (sketchup) who's done some really nice panoramas.  He uses EasyPano (I believe) and his own website for display.

 

If you've already got Pano2QTVR I would just use it-- it should be pretty trivial.  I just tested their new one and it was very easy-- costs about $80.

[Ros. Riha]

"You definitely don't need a panorama stitcher-- nXt does panoramic projections directly" ... I do not want to create flamewar re panorama software. We use panorama stitchers in nxt because we use them stitching real photographs as well.

There is another reason that I am going to put into separate topic.

[Kevin Lockwood]

I've been using PANO2QVR. Works pretty well. Saves to MOV. They even have a desktop droplette when you just drop the equirectangular render onto it and saves it to a mov. There's several applications available for mov files too so you can add your pano to a website.

the site have purchase or free versions. The free version is limited, but won't watermark.

[Wayne Williamson]

We still use the Smoothmove pan viewer that everyone used with panaramas in AR3 & AR4. Yes I know its from 1998 but it's simple, still works & I can't think of features we are missing.