I was just doing some experimenting with Vue 4 and Quick Time VR, and made this little "movie", if you want to call it that. I uploaded it and if anyone's interested, check it out. It's in a .mov format which will play in Netscape just fine. It won't play in IE, unless you have the appropriate Quick Time active X control installed in your browser, which you do, if you've been surfing Quick Time sites. I don't know how to embed the information for automatic download, though. I don't know about Opera. The browser version is Here. The zip version is Here. Obviously, you need the free Quick Time Player as well, at least version 4. WARNING If you have a Quick Time Pro license for QT 4, and download the latest QT 5 player, you will NOT be able to use your license with QT 5! And, you may have trouble uninstalling QT 5, and reinstalling QT 4 to get your license usage back. I found that out the hard way! Check it out if you want to, but it's really nothing special...just having some fun. The .mov file is only 72 KB, and the zip file is only 57 KB.

Cool image, Mike! How long did it take to render?

Thanks. :) That was in Broadcast mode, and it took maybe about 7 minutes @600 mhz. It would have been quicker, but I had blurred reflections on the water. They didn't really show up though.

Fun one, Mike! I think you have a ghost in that place - there appears to be a bright column of diffused light. A spectre, no doubt! :D

Cool. I love those 360 degree thingys (I'm certain that's the technical term). I am curious if you did that inside a box or sphere? Looks sort of like you used a box, as there seems to be some distortion as you rotate. Or is that an intentional effect from some sort of lens set up that you used to add to the mood? Just thought that if you did it in a box you might want to switch to a sphere to see if that distortion would be eliminated. It's a nice scene, and plays well with Mozilla too, using QuickTime Ver. 3.0. :-) jon

No, jon, no box or sphere, just a "normal" Vue landscape with a 360 degree panoramic camera setting. I wouldn't have figured it would work with QT 3. I thought the Vue manual said it had to be at least QT 4. shrug Anyway, I think there's a right way and a wrong way to do it without distortions. I've done a couple before that looked pretty good, but it was all by accident. ;)

Now that is cool. I've seen these things made before by painitng/projecting on the inside of a box or sphere. Neat that you can do it from right inside Vue. Must be some camera placement trick to get it to work without distortions then. Be cool if you can get it down to where you don't have to depend on happy accidents. jon