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#1 2013-02-16 17:46:57

kenbower@rogers.com
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Setting vertical boundaries for panoramas

Hello,

Is there a way in Panotour Pro to limited what the viewer can see vertically.  For example, if the tripod wasn't removed, can a boundary be established so that the viewer can not pan down past a certain point?

Thanks,

Ken

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#2 2013-02-16 17:54:09

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Re: Setting vertical boundaries for panoramas

kenbower@rogers.com wrote:

Hello,

Is there a way in Panotour Pro to limited what the viewer can see vertically.  For example, if the tripod wasn't removed, can a boundary be established so that the viewer can not pan down past a certain point?

Thanks,

Ken

Welcome to the forum, Ken...

Yes, use the (virtual) Crop tool in the Hotspot Editor panel; just drag the handles to set/define the viewable area.


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#3 2013-02-16 18:20:00

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Re: Setting vertical boundaries for panoramas

Thanks.  I had forgotten about that!

Ken

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#4 2013-02-16 18:40:25

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Re: Setting vertical boundaries for panoramas

kenbower@rogers.com wrote:

Thanks.  I had forgotten about that!

Ken

. . . and if you want do do it in a pano/tour which is already finished you can limit the vert. fov in the xml by changing fov +90 and/or fov -90° to what you like.

best, Klaus

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#5 2013-03-05 16:46:30

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Re: Setting vertical boundaries for panoramas

I've come across a strange cropping issue.

I can grab the vertical crop handles and adjust the image to elimiate the unneeded portions of an image.

But I cannot grab the horizontal crop handles. The horizontal arrows displays... but when I try to adjust the markers... I cannot.

First time I've seen this problem. And it only happens on this 1 pano.

EDIT: Also... this particular pano is about 90 degrees. It was taken in the corner of a room.

PTP 1.8/64 seems to think this is a 360. When I create the output... it allows me to rotate around 360 degrees (I have fov at 75)... and to areas that don't even exist (diplays in white).

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#6 2013-03-05 18:38:20

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Re: Setting vertical boundaries for panoramas

Did you stitch the pano using Autopano Pro or Giga?

If so APP/APG will create a custom Kolor EXIF tag which amongst other things records the pano FOV.

If you haven't processed the stitched pano with software that strips the EXIF before inputting the pano image to PTP, then PTP will read the Kolor EXIF tag to establish the values for pano FOV automatically.

If the Kolor EXIF tage is missing the PTP will 'guesstimate' the Pano FOV based on teh apsect ratio of the image starting with a HFOV of 360 or a VFOV of 180. And you will see a yellow triangle icon on the pano image which indicates that the Kolor EXIF data is mssing.

In your case it seems to have set the VFOV to 360.

So you need to set the correct FOV in PTP - see screenshot.


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#7 2013-03-07 20:20:16

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Re: Setting vertical boundaries for panoramas

I'm using PTGui Pro to stitch.

This must have been a PT Gui stithing issue...
I restitched the images... and (Not sure why) but the problem went away.

Thanks for your help Andrew.


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