Attached Link: http://www.horseless-headsmen.co.uk/wow/HWCityscapePan.htm

I've been asked by a web-site client about doing 3d walkthroughs and the such like for archetectural projects. On researching the subject, I've stumbled upon a miraculous thing... [http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/] takes you to a free panoramic viewer of the java variety which has a myriad uses for Brycers as an alternative to animations. Many of you will probably #yawn# as I've seen this technology in a few low-res on-line games but It's booyakasha for anything from cool web-buttons to imersive 3d! I've stuck my camera in the middle of a "future city" terrain of textured spikes and done a "360 degree panoramic render". This is loaded into the panoramic viewer and... hey presto! I'm going to have fun with this! (Please excuse strange green highlights on a couple of the buildings... this was a quickie!) Warning: my image file is 500kish... just couldn't resist! I need now to render the "looking at the ground" and "looking at the sky" view and work out how to stitch them into the panoramic view with the tools downloadable from the site. It's a bit complicated as I've had to re-download the java JDK1.1.8 to get them to run... Hrumph. But if you have a bit of java and html know-how then I would recommend trying this viewer! As I hope to use this with archetectural subject matter, I would much appreciate some feedback as to whether the applet works for everybody? Ta!:)

Attached Link: http://www.phase2.net/claygraphics/cubicqtvrexamples.html

Here's a few I have done that have full 360 pano, I haven't added any Nodes or ( hotspots) yet, but theses are just tests: http://www.phase2.net/claygraphics/cubicqtvrexamples.html

Probs, clay... I tried to look!.. When I click on the thumbs it just brings up DAP to download est1.mov (etc.) to my HD. I have quicktime so I can't see why it's not working??? I guess DAP has "fronds" extending deep into my system. Hmmm... Methinks I have the benifit of an applet which requires no plugin:)

Blimey! You're the big cheese!!!
Thanks, clay... but did my page load up properly for you?

Much appreciated Mush:)

by the way "mush" is a term of endearment in the uk... just in case!

Your page loaded up after a bit, but netscape has a prob with java sometimes heh, but I clicked around and it looked cool!!

Thanks, Clay... Glad to hear it works with Netscape. :)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=AgentSmith

I had found that Helmut Dersch site a couple weeks ago, VERY useful tools and examples. Although, I am not "in to" doing panorama renders right now... ...one of the example pics from that site was an omnidirectional picture. I found I could wrap it on a sphere in Bryce, and it looks real-world normal if viewed from the inside. This allows real world reflections on objects, as seen above. I later found higher-end programs do this (in a different way) and call it reflection mapping, since Bryce can't truly do it like they can, I had to fake it, but it still comes out decent. There is a 1024x768 version of this render in my gallery, also a second different render with two other views. Thanks Agent Smith

Wow yeah! I think this is BOOKA! It is so Wicked that I is thinkin about many quid comin my way when I exploit this!

Agent... that's very very realistic. Extremely impressive. :)