How to Make Flash Panoramas on Mac/Windows
Introduction to Flash and Flash Panorama
As a multimedia platform developed by Macromedia, Adobe Flash has long been a popular method that used for adding animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. And now it’s commonly used in developing RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) like flash panorama player. Flash Panoramas is used to show a virtual environment in 360 degree field of view.
With the viewer, feeling is like standing inside the place and looking out from the center of the location. You have to shoot panoramas first to create flash VR panoramas and export the panorama to Flash VR which is based on the cross platform Adobe Flash Player to play 360 degree panoramic photos.
A Flash VR (Virtual Reality) Panorama is usually used to show a virtual scene in 360-degree field of view, with the feeling like standing in the center of the environment and looking around. There are various websites on the web that offer free download for Panorama Maker and one of the best companies ‘ArcSoft’ offers you free download and install panorama maker to export the panorama to flash VR on Windows or Mac.
ArcSoft is a leading industry software developer of multimedia imaging technologies and applications and the company offers fully integrated solutions to provide a complete user experience that spans across smart phones. This company is most popular for its innovative services that you can gain on its website. So, once you visit its website and get complete idea.
Step 1: Import the files into the software
Import a group of photographs to the workspace. You’d better to take a 360-degree shot of the environment. Select the “360°” stitching mode and click the icon to stitch.
Step 2: Start the stitching progress
After that, stitch photos together to a panoramic image. Above the workspace you can view the imported photos, drag and drop the thumbnails to change the order if necessary. Then click “stitch” when ready. If there are many large size images to be processed, the stitching process would be more slowly than usual and all you need is patience.
Step 3: Opt the output format
Finally, export the panorama to flash. Choose “PTViewer(*.htm;*.html)” or “Flash(*.htm;*.html)” as the output format, it depends on the installed browser plug-in. You also can preview the resulting with the inbuilt flash viewer.
Tips:
PTViewer is a java applet that can be used as a viewer for panoramic photos and latest version is 2.8.
Above are the steps on how to make flash Panoramas on Windows. You can follow the same directions if you are using Mac OS.
This tutorial guides you to how to create panorama vr flash with panorama maker on Windows or Mac. For more Informations Please visit our flash panoramas website.