There's a bit of a back story to this one in my gallery. The version there is without postwork so you can compare. If you have a CRT you may prefer that one since it's a little brighter.

I'd really like to do a QTVR of this, but the program seems to be really expensive. If anyone knows a cheaper way to produce them, I'm all ears.

All comments are welcome. Good ones rather than negative of course. ;-)

Wow! I like the feel of this. Also, I like shiney and thats a shiney floor :-D Portrait or Selfportrait?

I was up all night polishing the floor. And then sliding up and down it the next morning. Great fun. And yeah, the portrait is me in my "try and look like a dark and moody artist type."

Well it works, it looks very artsy (moody and dark) to me. Also, isn't it a blast to put up a gallery of your works. I did a render once where I used some of my images as pictures hanging on the wall. Virtual or real it gave me a bit of pleasure doing it.

why do you need an expensive qtvr program? use this method to render: http://fartur.free.fr/galerie/tutorial/qtvr-tutorial.html then use this program to make the qtvr: http://www.panoguide.com/software/utils/gocubic.html It's free! I am on a mac so I can;t speak to the gocubic app, but I have the equivalent free program here and it works like a charm. If you do have a mac, or access to one, I bought this lovely software called cubic connector that allows you to draw hotspots and link several qtvr's together, so you can literally point and click through your gallery, while being able to look around 360 degrees in any direction. That software is here: http://www.clickheredesign.com.au/cubicconnector/ that's actually never than the version I have, i think i'lll upgrade now.

madmax! You are the man. This is exactly what I wanted. Off to play now.....

I need the PC version and the link in the panoguide site is no good. AHHHH!!!! Looking for a download somewhere else now. If anyone has a copy, I'd be really grateful.

http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/ here you'll find some utilities but not gocubic...still looking for that one.

Attached Link: http://www.panoguide.com/code/Gocubic.zip

Brilliant thanks. Playing with the built in QTVR thing in Bryce (which I didn't know it had) Really should read manuals more often.

The built in qtvr option will only give you cylindrical panormas, and it is not too good at optimizing them. You can only move 180 degrees around, not up or down. The tutorial above creates cubic panoramas that can be viewed from all angles. Here's a quick example of one I made a while back: http://www.renderring.com/skytest3.mov It's quite fun and his is how they made Myst III

Done the built in one.... Like you say.... It's OK. Good as a test, but scewed. So I'm rendering at the moment to use Gocubic.... OK, this post is getting off topic. ;-)

Well it's YOUR thread :P haha

oh BTW best FOV to use is 40 degrees

not in bryce, but for the movie.

OK, just before I go to bed, here's my very first try with Gocubic. Shows that it works and shows that my gallery has no doors. Great fun. I'll certainly be working on the other half of the gallery when time permits. Anyway the movie is here.

Many many thanks to madmax.

Very nice! My only qualm is that it looks rather compressed. That may be that gocubic isn't too great at compressing, but great job!

You could have called this, 'PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION' and got Art, Architecture and Music all in one great render.

It looks just like a gallery I used to work at. Very realistic render drawbridge and a job well done, ie. the dark artist on the wall. 8) Catlin

What is a QTVR?

quicktime virtual reality basically a scene that you can interact with.

To be honest I created really small pictures for the cube and the AA is off hence the poor compression look. I'm gonna be playing around a lot with this though....

Attached Link: http://www.panoguide.com/software/utils/gocubic.html