Flash Panorama Player - hanging tooltips

Jez — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:57:33 +0000

Using the zephry’s excellent Extensible tooltips plugin and also FPP’s tooltip plug-in, there seems to be an issue where the non-static hotpot tooltips will sometimes hang and carry over into the next pano. The only solution I could find was to was turn off the visibility of the non-static hotspots onTransitionEnd, and turn the visibilty back on again onNewPano, so:
onNewPano=" nonstatic_hotpot_1.visibility=0; nonstatic_hotpot_2.visibility=0; nonstatic_hotpot_3.visibility=0; etc... "onTransitionEnd=" nonstatic_hotpot_1.visibility=1; nonstatic_hotpot_2.visibility=1; nonstatic_hotpot_3.visibility=1; etc... "

Obviously a bit of a pain if there are a shedload of hotspots, but it works.

Fake miniature 360° panorama of Oxford

Jez — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:36:23 +0000

Seeing this is my first post, here’s something a bit different to get this blog rolling.

View 360° here

This is a 360° taken from the top of Oxford’s Carfax Tower which has been processed to make it (hopefully) look a panoramic view of a miniature scale model. The basic steps taken in Photoshop were:

Duplicate layer
Create a gradient layer mask and apply lens blur
Delete layer mask
Create a new layer mask and remove blur from features that should not be out of focus
Bump up the saturation, brightness and contrast

More in depth tutorials can be found here and here.

Panoco

Flash Panorama Player - hanging tooltips

Fake miniature 360° panorama of Oxford