Panowalker 2.00 User Manual
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1. f as to noni ete oan Py ar z F Ea E A E iv Point Name Image Type panooot Spherical panot Spnerica panooos Spherical i Select Move Path 1 Select a path or multiple paths first from Path List or select all points under one path from Path panel 2 Move the selected path s by clicking t move by 5pix or using Ctrl t e move by 1pix or press the left mouse button and drag X Tip In the path panel you could select multiple points of different paths by pressing Ctrl button Under the same panel press Ctrl or Shift to select multiple points Set Path Properties In the properties panel you could set color for the path and points change path width add sound to the path and set path E Component Path Color Hi PathTrendSetting re Fathi Point Color Hi Sound r E i Loop wT Path Trend Setting To set trend of path Take the first pano of each path as starting point of setting Click the button E to start setting path e In this part you can set the initial view of the panoramas Click Tilt Min Max the first panorama will be shown in the image viewer Hold the left mouse to drag the red line to set Tilt Max value and green line for Tilt Min value Path Trend Setting i x Tilt Min Max tritial Settings Hold the left mouse button to drag the red line to set Tilt Max value and the green line For Tilt Min e Go to Initial Settings use the buttons in2. could delete it add a new map or replace the selected map with a new one See below Map Hame Image Hame Pil map map zit After deleting the selected map to add a new one using this button i Delete the selected map ry Replace the selected map with a new one Zoom Map You could zoom map on Stage at a specified percentage The minimum value for zooming out on the stage is 3 The maximum value for zooming in on the Stage is 800 Set Map Properties FEJ Map Name Path List a Pathi Jam H W H They mean width and height of map the values of which can t be changed Map Name Name of map is displayed here You could also edit it Path List To display the paths in the current map Click on the path name to select a path Click the blank area in front of path name the path will be locked and an icon amp will appear In this situation the path can t be edited Click on the icon to unlock it As to the details of adding or deleting path on Map please refer to Edit Path X Tip You could also not add any map Edit Path In this part you can set the walking path of the virtual tour You can see two points connected by a straight line in the map After importing a map and two panoramic images a straight line with two points representing two panoramic images respectively will be generated automatically in the map You could also edit the point refer to Edit Point for details Add Delete P
3. in a popup window right beside the mouse The setting window is shown as below Link to Pop Up Image x Height 0 Location Center URL OVW easypana cam F Destination _blank Y OK Cancel y Note When multiple hotspots are selected in the properties panel W H Icon Text and Hint are editable while other options are not editable Publish After you have set the path you can publish the tour There are the following options in the publish settings Publish Settings O x Options Generate files for autoRun CD if Open output folder after publish If Initial auto play i Initial show map Apply To C Web Local W Enable full screen Loading Window File ar File Mame Project Output Destination C Program Files Easypano Panowalker F Default Movie Order Pathi ir Path2 ab OK Cancel Apply Options Generate files for autorun CD autorun inf If you want to burn the virtual tour onto CD you can check this Open output folder after published Initial Auto Play The virtual tour will run automatically when the tour is loaded H Initial Show Map The map will be shown in the tour if this is selected Please note that this option will be disabled if there is no map imported Apply to Web Under this situation each original image will be resized to less than 2 000 000 pixels and full screen is disabled Local Each original image is published without change and full
4. including Map panel Path panel Skin List panel Properties amp Actions panel Workflow The general workflow of making a virtual tour with Panowalker is as follows Launch Panowalker Select Skin Import Map Import Panoramas Set Initial Viewer Set the Path Publish settings Basic Steps Click File gt New Project a dialog box will popup Select a skin and click next Import a map in the next step Click next to import panoramic images In the final step click finish Nm BW NN After making necessary settings click Publish to publish a tour Edit Skin Browse and Replace Skin After selecting a skin you could browse the other skins by a single mouse click replace a skin by double click in the Skin List panel Mi Bluella Skin Blues Skin 4 About Skin Properties The properties of the selected skin will be displayed in the properties panel of skin like below E Skin Name Description Map suspends inside the scene viewer and can be hidden Supports full screen Supports path selection Supports speed adjustment Supports Wyn Bo EmailT our Including some info like Skin Name width height Description Customize Skin A technology file has been provided to tell our customers how to customize skin in Flash CS3 Refer to How to design Flash skins at http www easypano com product documents html Edit Map Add Delete Replace Map After importing a map you
5. name to specify its location and the hotspot properties will appear Or just click Hotspot Edit button in the point properties panel to go to the hotspot settings window Add Hotspot Hotspot Settings 1 Click on Add Hotspot 2 Then move your mouse on the panoramic image and press left mouse button to add a hotspot And the properties panel will display its properties and action Delete Hotspot Method 1 Select a hotspot and click De ete Hospot Method 2 Select a hotspot and press De ete button on your keyboard Select Hotspot Click a hotspot on a panoramic image or Click the hotspot name in Hotspot List Selecting multiple hotspots is supported Move Hotspot After selecting one or more hotspots hold the left mouse key and drag H Use arrow keys t to move the selected hotspots Move a single hotspot by changing the X Y coordinates of it in the properties panel of the hotspot Set Hotspot Properties Link to amp Mone A Component Icon Defaut Text an 7 ee a C Panos Settings Hotspoto k e Pop Up Image Settings ut tf URL Settings we 40 a 1674 ni mo Hi a0 Yi 797 Component Display hotspot name W H To set hotspot area X Y Set x y coordinates of hotspot Icon Set icon for hotspot Two types Text and images hotspot image by default or hotspot images located at InstallDir Libraries Image Hotspot Text If you want to get a text hotspot or a text image hotspot plea
6. permission of Easypano Panowalker and Easypano are trademarks of Easypano Holdings Inc Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation About more on license information please refer to the license agreement included in the applications Other products mentioned in this manual have rights and marks held by their respective owners Our product contains Substance Java look amp feel developed by Kirill Grouchnikov and contributors Feedback Your comments and suggestions on this document are welcome You can a submit a ticket here Introduction Panowalker is a new virtual tour solution from Easypano which is dedicated to achieving real walkthrough effect in panoramas Compared with Tourweaver Panowalker makes more realistic virtual tours easily and fast With Panowalker you can use panoramic images and map floorplan of the place to make a walking path New Features Support multiple paths Support adding hotspot Link to Panorama Popup Image URL Support hotspot properties settings Publish to the local full screen of player is supported Support the transition effect Everyscape when scenes switch Support the background music as mp3 Purchase and Installation Purchase Panowalker If you re interested in our products please make purchase via the following two ways 1 Purchase from resellers For the moment we have agents in the following countr
7. points Move a single point by changing the X Y coordinates of it in the properties panel of the point C E Note Don t move the points out of the map Add Delete Point s Add or delete points from the Path panel see below panodoi Spherical pano z Spherical panotos Spherical select one or multiple points and click the button tlto add points the button ii to delete points Set Point Properties q Component Sync Pana panctoz jpg Hotspot Edit Jpanoooz Type Normal Point x z Yi 534 You could edit point name set its type and adjust its location in the properties panel X Y Point coordinates relative to the top left corner of map T Note As to Anchor Point X Y option is editable As to Normal Point X Y option is not editable Sync Pano Display the Pano name Type To set the type of points Two options are available Normal Point and Anchor Point X Tip After adding a path the starting point and the end point are Anchor Points and the other points are Normal Points by default you could also set the other points to Anchor Point Hotspot Edit button To edit hotspot For details please refer to Edit Hotspot Edit Hotspot To Enter Hotspot Properties Panel 1 Click on the non hotspot area on a panoramic image to select a pano and the pano properties panel will appear 2 All the hotspots on a panoramic image are listed in Hotspot List 3 Click on a hotspot
8. CD ou seeeesesseeeeees 24 Welcome You are welcome to use Easypano products This document explains how to use Panowalker 2 00 It would be better if the readers of this document have the following knowledge e Knowledge of panorama e Knowledge of panoramic image shooting and panoramic image stitching e Basic ideas about Javascript e Tips on HTML code Conventions and Definitions We adopt the following typographical conventions and definitions in this document Typeface or Icons Used to emphasize new terms and concepts at the point where Italic they are introduced Also used to designate the quoted terms or menus of the software Used to arouse the readers attention towards certain operations or things they should consider pe Used to offer some extra techniques on how to use Tips Panowalker Copyright Announcement This manual as well as the software described in it is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice Easypano assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this documentation Except as permitted by such license no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical recording or otherwise without the prior written
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10. ath 1 In the map properties panel click Add Path 2 Open Images window will pop up select several panoramic images and click Open Open Images BY panodl2 jpg Ei panoli 3 jpg Ei panoli 4 jpg Ei panolis jpg Ei panoi jpg panoul jpg Deskto p panolis jpg Af pano019 jpq Af panooz0 jpg B panoi jpg panoi i jpg Files of type JPEG Image Format peg pa Cancel Ee File name nano jpg panoi jpg 3 A new path will appear in the map Path List oa Pathi Add Path Del Path 4 To delete the path select the path you d like to delete from the Path List click Delete Path button in the map properties panel Then the path will be also deleted from the Path panel Path List Pathi Add Fath Edit Path When making a path please go to the image list to select the place where the path has a turning There are fixed pins before the first and last image and the two points in the map represent the first and last image respectively If there is a turning in image movie center for example you can click the image in the Path list then a point will appear in the map drag it with your mouse to place it ina right position If the box is checked before image movie center a pin will appear there and the point will be anchored in the map can t be edited just uncheck the box in the Path list if you d like to edit it as you can see it in the map ae
11. created with Panowalker Flash Player 9 0 or higher version is needed Installation e Download the free trial version of Panowalker from Easypano website e Run pwk200 exe to Install Panowalker e Follow the instructions on the start page of program Activation To fight against piracy and better protect Easypano copyright as well as user s interests we adopt a stricter license policy Easypano customers have to activate the product to make it fully functional The Easypano Product Activation System does not collect or utilize personal information such as your name and contact information Product Activation is completely secure and anonymous No personal information is ever collected or requested During activation the product does not scan your hard drives or collect any data other than the minimum information required to verify your license Please see our Privacy Policy ey Try for full feature test a Purchase to get serial number Vanna move your current activated license to a new computer Activate Product Online Offline Transfer License Online Reactivate in the new computer oS Use full version T Note NIC Network Interface Card or modem must be installed to activate product Easypano product activation is related with NIC As long as the NIC remains the same there will be no problem on activation If you need to change the NIC you are advised to transfer license key in advance so that r
12. eactivation can be processed successfully You can also contact Easypano Customer Service Team Usage of Panowalker 2 00 Panowalker Project File The project file from Panowalker is in XML format with the extension pwk It records all the information of the whole project including scene map skin etc Prepare Panoramic Images To produce realistic virtual tours with Panowalker you need to prepare panoramic images first Panowalker supports two types of panoramic images Spherical and Cylindrical How to obtain panoramic images Spherical panoramic images 2 1 panoramic images can be obtained through stitching of fisheye images The fisheye images can be taken by DSLR camera and fisheye lens 3 circular images or 4 drum images are recommended for stitching a spherical panoramic image Circular Drum Cylindrical panoramic images can be easily obtained by unwrapping donut images taken by OneShot equipment There are unwrapping software like Photowarp which can do this job Please note that Panowalker 2 00 only Supports FOV symmetric cylindrical panoramic images like following Vertical Cup Vertical down Special Requirements for Shooting Process Panowalker helps to realize the walkthrough effect of panoramic virtual tours so what we need to do is to import a series of continuous panoramic images If you pay attention to the following tips you can get away from all the troubles of post retouching and get high qualit
13. ies USA United Kingdom Italia France Romania Australia and Greece To contact these agents please go to this webpage for more details http www easypano com resellers html 2 Purchase online If you choose to purchase online please go to this page http www easypano com online store html T 5 Note Single license of Panowalker 2 00 can be activated on both desktop and laptop System Requirements and Installation Panowalker 2 00 has only Windows version System requirements To use Panowalker in Windows you need Operating system e Microsoft Windows 2K XP Vista Computer Hardware e PIII800MHz or faster processor e 1G RAM or more e Network interface card or modem must be installed e Video display of 800 600 pixels or higher with 16 bit color 1024 768 is Suggested Others e OpenGL 1 2 or later version To view Flash virtual tours in Windows Macintosh you need Computer Hardware e PIITI800MHz or faster processor in Windows AMD 2800 or above G3 400MHz or higher in Macintosh e 512M RAM or more e Video display of 800 600 pixels or higher with 16 bit colors 1024 768 is Suggested Operating system e Windows Me 2K XP Vista or Mac OSX10 2 and later Browser e Microsoft IE6 0 or higher Netscape Navigator 7 0 or later version Firefox 1 0 or later version in Windows Microsoft IE6 0 or higher Netscape Navigator 5 0 or later version Firefox 1 0 or later version in Macintosh Others e To view Flash virtual tours
14. screen is enabled Default Movie Order To set default play order Adjust location through the buttons 4Pand P Loading Window File To set loading window waiting image You can also set the output path and name the virtual tour in this part Run Virtual Tour You can run virtual tour from local after you publish it After you publish virtual tour an output folder should be opened automatically you can view the tour by double click on the generated html Application of flash virtual tour After you created the Flash virtual tour with Panowalker you can either embed in your website or burn it onto a CD Embed Flash Tour into My Website After publishing a virtual tour you can transfer all the published files with onto your website and place them in the same folder without changing their structures You may set a link in your webpage to open the tour page walker html Burn Flash Virtual Tour onto CD You can also burn the Flash virtual tour you have published onto CD and send it to your customers You should burn all the files onto CD so that it can be viewed properly If you want to autorun one html page when the CD loads you may choose Generate files for autorun CD autorun inf when you publish Then in the autorun inf file you can write pagename html after shellexecute FAQ 1 Is there any limitation on the trial version Trial version has no function or time limit The only difference between trial
15. se type text here and click the icon ato set font size align etc for the text Hint You can also set font size and color for the hint text Click the icon lto set hint properties Hint Settings Ee xi A Eea fio i B TF Border Color Hi Background Color OE Cancel Link to None To set hotspot action None represents the hotspot doesn t link to anything Link to Pano When adding Link to Pano to hotspot you can make settings by the setting window which is as below Link To Fano Transition Effect Walkthough Everyscape Transition Guraion 5 casel_pathi_00i casel_path1_002 Inittial loacation of End loacation of Inittial loacation of casel_pathi_oos current scene current scene destination scene casel_ pathi_oo4 casel pathi_ OOS casel Sr 006 casel pathi_Oo8 casel pathi O09 casel pathi O10 casel pathi O11 casel pathi O12 casel pathi O13 casel pathi O14 casel pathi 015 casel pathl 016 4 4 iT Set the initial and end location of current scene in the first and second windows respectively and set the initial location of destination scene in the third window In the first window Pan values can t be adjusted In the second window you can adjust Pan and FOV of current scene In the third window Pan can be adjusted Link to Popup Image You can add Pop up Image action to Hotspot After this action is added to hotspot when clicking on the hotspot the relative image will be shown
16. the toolbar to set the initial view of the panorama You can turn left and right turn up and down zoom in and out and reset the panorama Path Trend Setting ee Tilt Min Max Initial Settings Hold the left mouse button to drag the panorama to set the initial value of Pan Tilt Scroll the mouse scroll wheel to set the initial value of Foy zoom in by scrolling Forth and zoom out by scrolling back Pan 3 Tilt 3 Fov 88 OK Cancel Sound Set background sound for a path Click the button EF to import a sound file Only mp3 is supported If Loop selected the sound would be replayed automatically Q B Note Only one sound file for one path When playing movie and switching path if the background sound of the destination path is the same with the current path then the current background sound will continue playing Q B Note When you play the virtual tour the points will not be shown only the path will be shown in the map You can also make settings to the points on the path see Edit Point for more details Edit Point on Path The points on path represent the imported panoramic images respectively Select Point s H Select one line or multiple lines from the Path panel Click on one point on a path Select one or more points by dragging your mouse on map Move Point s After selecting one or more points hold the left mouse key and drag H Use arrow keys t to move the selected
17. version and activated one is that there is trial version prompts in the virtual tour output 2 I have purchased and activated Panowalker how to use Panowalker on my new computer If you are going to upgrade your computer please make sure you have transferred the license before you do that Then you can use the license to activate Panowalker again in your new computer If you forget to do so please contact Easypano Customer Service Team
18. y virtual tour effect Try your best to choose shooting points equidistantly you can keep the distance between each shooting at 30 40cm in this way the final virtual tour will be playing consistently at uniform speed Keep the nodal point at the same level Take the images along the path If you are shooting fisheye images for spherical panoramic stitching you need to take care of the shooting direction the first fisheye image of each group should always be taken at the path direction See below Some Suggestions Keep single panoramic image dimension within 4000 x 2000 pix and single image file size around 150KB If the images are too large in size and dimension the loading speed and consistency of the final virtual tour will be affected All the panoramic images should be in the same dimension Interface The interface of Panowalker is made up of five parts Title Bar Menu Bar Tool Bar Stage and Panels Panowalker Project pwk ogee ad ToolBar Main Toolbar displays the menus that are frequently used i File gt New Project amp N i File gt Open amp O al File gt Save amp S a File gt Preview amp R gt Default amp D 5 File gt Publish amp B H Stage Stage is the place where you edit tours map path etc Panel To display or edit properties of components in the panel or manage components maps paths etc in the current project through this part
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