sibarrick Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Does anyone here know of any software for making QuickTime VR movies that is scriptable? We currently use VR worx but the scripting is a joke and doesn't let you batch anything. All images have to be loaded by hand which takes forever. If anyone has any knowledge on this subject I would be very grateful, ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andz Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 If anyone has any knowledge on this subject I would be very grateful, ta. Have you used Realviz's Stitcher? There is a downloadable full working demo, the only restriction is the watermarks. It is suposed to do batch rendering, but its pretty simple to load all files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 Have you used Realviz's Stitcher? There is a downloadable full working demo, the only restriction is the watermarks.It is suposed to do batch rendering, but its pretty simple to load all files. I haven't, it looks like it only does panorama's i need to make objects... cheers though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEO-oo- Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Please check this: Quest3D and Virtools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 Please check this: Quest3D and Virtools cheers, Quicktime VR is perhaps badly named. It's not VR at all really, not in the sense of those tools you link to. A QTVR object is just a set of frames that can be built into a movie that the user can interact with using a mouse. It allows you to tumble and spin an object but all done as pre-rendered images not using any 3d code at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andz Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Ok, my last try The only other software I know that does this is Strata. File In/Out Features - Quicktime VR (out) Strata 3D CX outputs both QuickTime VR panoramas and QuickTime VR objects. The QuickTime VR Panorama simulates an actual camera with a 360 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEO-oo- Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 @sibarrick I know what you mean - I was sure one this two application will do what you want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paint Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 love RealViz Stitcher, I was one of the lucky ones who was in HDR class at SCAD. very cool stuff.. i'll go look over my notes and see what other software ther is though will bet back in a bit. ther are also some really neat plugins for photoshop to work with it.. if you are useing a fisheye lens or need to unwrap an image to use . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted September 2, 2006 Author Share Posted September 2, 2006 There's a ton of software for making panaroma's but i'm only interested in vr objects. This is somewhat different, and i'm only looking for commandline tools for batch processing them. I think its actually a fruitless search, as far as I can tell from my now extensive searches no-one has written such a piece of software Thanks for all the suggestions though, maybe a passing nomadic programmer will read this and decide the world needs a commandline vr object maker.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 From google, I found this page http://www.edb.utexas.edu/teachnet/qtvr/QTVRObjectNeeds.htm which suggested that the QuickTime developers kit contains a tool which can convert a QuickTime movie into a QTVR object. A bit more searching and I found this: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/vrma...ject/index.html It comes with source so with some hacking, you can probably come up with a command line tool that will take a bunch of images and create a command line QTVR tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted September 2, 2006 Author Share Posted September 2, 2006 Yeah I did find that, i'm not 100% sure my coding is up to it though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Well, if you had some tool that could take a bunch of pics and make a single linear QuickTime movie, then you've already skipped the step of manually picking them right? The tool comes pre-compiled on Windows already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 That's true, but as usual I want more! I need to create an Vr object with 3 dimensions. Rotation, Layering and Animation so its a little more complex than just making a linear movie. I couldn't see how the tools they provide would handle that. I know its possible because I can do it in VR worxs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 From what I've read, it sounds like it just relies on the fact that your linear QT movie is taken with certain viewpoints (every X degrees rotated). So it just takes the images from that and creates it into the QTVR object. Have you tried running the example from Apple? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 From what I've read, it sounds like it just relies on the fact that your linear QT movie is taken with certain viewpoints (every X degrees rotated). So it just takes the images from that and creates it into the QTVR object. Have you tried running the example from Apple? I haven't, i'll try it if I get time, but that isn't my understanding of it. Yes it is true for a simple rotation as you describe but when you give it two directions of rotation the movie is 2 dimensional and when you give it layers as well then it becomes 3 dimensional. Now that might be encoded as a single linear stream, but is there anywhere in that code that you can specify the dimensions of the other rotations and layers? If not it will treat the whole thing as if it were a simple one dimensional rotation and you would be able to navigate around the object correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symek Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I'm not really sure if I remember correctly but I used to play with swift 3d and some other softwares for making 3d flash animation. It works as a standalone package or as a plugin to 3d softwares. And... not really sure but your question has reminded me, that swift3d got a QTVR export option. Swift 3d or one of its competitor. I tried few of them in very limited amount of time for some particular project long, long time ago, so sorry or imprecision! Hope you'll find the answer! cheers, SY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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