proj-imim:
Re: [proj-imim] Video Avatar in a panorama
Guillaume Fulchiron 2002-Dec-08 22:58:15
Hi List, and Flemming,
Do you remember Peter Melocco panos of an animated train into station ?
It was made of Ptmovie and GSM sound. Very impressive work !
My kids loved it !
http://www.virtualtour.com.au/train/
I got red eyes reading the source code :-)
Regards,
Guillaume
> This can also be done in Ptviewer with the use of ptmovie.
> As I recall "Gummybear" had an example long time ago [ are you still
> there Gummybear?? ].
>
> I've made a qiuck example at
> www.fvlmedia.dk/movie
>
> I only had a 5 years old lo-res 6 frames hotmedia objectanimation
> [couldn't locate the original frames! ] - so it's not as fine as Aldo's
> example - I had to cut too much away because off the blue anti-aliased
> background, the motion is could have been more smooth and interesting
> and some shadows would have added a touch of realism.
>
> But this is just to test that it works.
>
> the extra ptmovie code goes like this
>
> <PARAM name=inits value="ptviewer:startApplet(0)">
> <PARAM name=applet0 value="{code=ptmovies.class}
> {frame=frames/marie#.jpg}
> {px=1565}
> {py=430}
> {fps=4}">
>
> and along with ptviewer.jar [small version] I had to upload
> ptmovies.class and ptstub.class.
>
> First I tried using transparent gif-frames, but ptmovie doesn't clear
> the frames, so it wasn't that smart to look at!
> Instead I loaded the pano.jpg into photoshop and placed the frames in
> layers. Cropped the image to the size of the frames [write down the
> upper x,y of the crop-area before you crop, to use for px , py in the
> applet params] and saved each layer with the pano-background as
> jpg-frames.
>
> As Helmut Dersch page still is closed I birng the ptmovie-documentatin
> here :
>
> __________________
>
> PTMovies
> PTMovies inserts a set of images into the panoramic image or the viewer
> window, depending on the warp-parameter. If warp is true (default) the
> images are inserted into the panorama and they have to be warped to the
> panoramic projection. They are displayed perspectively corrected in
> PTViewer and appear like natural elements of the VR-scene. For an
> example that displays an animation on the screen of a movie theater, see
> here.If warp is false, the images are inserted unchanged into the
> foreground viewer window.
>
> List of parameters:
>
> frame - the filename of the frame images. These should be numbered
> starting at 0. The number has to appear somewhere in the file name. The
> position of the number should be marked using the sign '#'. See the
> example above ('frames/frame#.jpg' loads the files frames/frame0.jpg,
> frames/frame1.jpg etc). There should be no leading zeros in the number.
> * PTViewer - the name of the ptviewer applet, defaults to "ptviewer".
> * warp - true (default) or false; determines how images are inserted;
> see description above.
> * px - the x-pixel coordinate of the insertion point in the panoramic
> image (upper left point, default 0). If warp is false, px is the viewer
> pixel coordinate.
> * py - the y-pixel coordinate of the insertion point in the panoramic
> image (upper left point, default 0).If warp is false, py is the viewer
> pixel coordinate.
> * fps - maximum number of frames per second, may be fractional, defaults
> to 20.
> * loop - 0 - don't loop, 1 - restart at beginning, 2 - reverse (default
> 1).
> ___________________
>
> Best Regards
>
> Flemming
>
>
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