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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] General Discussion => Topic started by: subpixelsk on 2014-02-23, 21:05:34

Title: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: subpixelsk on 2014-02-23, 21:05:34

Hi guys,

I´d like to ask you, what possibilities do I have when I want to produce similar result to this https://www.360cities.net/image/bedroom-cirkvice#58.21,0.20,70.0. Is it possible to make one 2:1 rendering which captures the whole room and then wrap the image with a help of adequate software to mirror ball to be able to move in the  room like in the link here? ...So basically what I´m looking for is an advice or brief walkthrough to make this with the best time/quality ratio. And yeah I´m planning to do this in Corona of course :)

Thanks in advance :)

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: Tanakov on 2014-02-24, 10:34:42

http://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,551.0.html

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: subpixelsk on 2014-02-24, 13:12:07

Thank you but I still don´t know where to find Panorama renderer Keymaster mentioned or what does CoronaCameraMod do..

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: romullus on 2014-02-24, 14:19:12

Look in utilities>more...>panorama exporter. But be aware that this tool was writen eons ago and is pretty outdated. I much prefer manual approach, at least until Keymaster will implement spherical camera.

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: subpixelsk on 2014-02-24, 14:43:24

Thank you Romullus, I see - and what would be the "manual" approach you stated?

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: romullus on 2014-02-24, 15:53:45

It would be rendering 6 images with 90 degree fov and stitching them in specialized software. It'll give slightly worse results than spherical camera would, but much better than max's panorama exporter.

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: agentdark45 on 2014-02-24, 17:07:43

Forgive my ignorance, but why would stitching 6 renders give a better result than using Max's pano exporter? I've gotten some pretty decent results out of it...

On another note, does anyone know of any free software / html 5 / flash based plugins for embedding panoramas on websites? I can only seem to find clunky / needlessly complicated solutions through google.

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: romullus on 2014-02-24, 18:53:39

I did comparison between max's panorama exporter, 6-faces render and mental ray wraparound methods, once. And found that pano exporter gives most distortion and loss of resolution at panorama poles, and wraparound was the best.

Quote from: agentdark45 on 2014-02-24, 17:07:43

On another note, does anyone know of any free software / html 5 / flash based plugins for embedding panoramas on websites? I can only seem to find clunky / needlessly complicated solutions through google.

Doesn't 360cities offer free embeding for personal use?

Edit: by the way max's panorama exporter does the same as manual 6 renders, only that it stink at stitching.

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: subpixelsk on 2014-02-24, 22:52:54

So basically the best way is to render separate 6 views of the room that I want and then use external software to stitch them together?

Title: Re: 360 Panorama brief tutorial
Post by: romullus on 2014-02-25, 00:22:40

For me, yes. But then again, this method has his own drawbacks. In example, if you choose to render with pt+hd, you can find, that it is really hard to render perfectly matching hd cache solution, that would stitch seamlessly. Rawalanche suggested to save secondary GI to fight this issue, but i didn't try that yet, so cannot confirm.