Free Skybox Viewer w/ source code

[Harvey Birdman]

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[helentr]

Thank you, this will be very useful

Helen

[xnasorcerer]

How do I use this scritp with the Terragen 2? I just started to use Terragen.
Thanks

[Harvey Birdman]

Hey, guy -

Assuming you went with the default installation directory, there should be a couple of short documentation files in c:\program files\planetside software\terragen 2 yada yada\docs.  Look at win_command_line.txt - I think it contains the information you'd need to set up a sequential render.

A couple of other users here have developed render management packages to help split jobs over various machines. I think Dark_Fire wrote one, IIRC. You'd have to ask them for more detail - I haven't tried them yet.

[xnasorcerer]

Hey, guy -

Assuming you went with the default installation directory, there should be a couple of short documentation files in c:\program files\planetside software\terragen 2 yada yada\docs.  Look at win_command_line.txt - I think it contains the information you'd need to set up a sequential render.

Thanks, but it doesn't have any docs, only a changes.txt file and a freeimage-license.txt.

[Harvey Birdman]

Hmmm... maybe the command line docs only come with the animation version? Someone else more familiar with the various packages may be able to help.

[Oshyan]

The commandline is only available in the registered versions of TG2 and so the commandline docs are not included in the free Technology Preview.

- Oshyan

[Mr_Lamppost]

Thanks for making and sharing this I am sure it will be very useful.

However when I try to run the stuffer I get an error

"The application failed to initalize properly (0xc0000135),"

I am running Win XP and as far as I know my video card drivers are up to date and Open GL should be supported.

[Harvey Birdman]

Hmmm.. strange! It's a .NET 2.0 app - do you have the runtime on your machine? The stuffer doesn't use GL or anything else exotic beyond the .Net2.0 runtime.

[Mr_Lamppost]

Hmmm.. strange! It's a .NET 2.0 app - do you have the runtime on your machine? The stuffer doesn't use GL or anything else exotic beyond the .Net2.0 runtime.

Is that one of those things I don't let Windows update because I have no idea what it's for and I trust Microsoft about as far as I could throw the Eiffel Tower assuming it wasn't bolted down 

How do I check?

[Harvey Birdman]

Is that one of those things I don't let Windows update because I have no idea what it's for and I trust Microsoft about as far as I could throw the Eiffel Tower assuming it wasn't bolted down 

Yeah, probably.   

Run Windows Update. If you have hidden updates you didn't want to be bothered with in the past, click 'Restore Hidden Updates', or something similar, in the sidebar... Look for the .Net 2.0 framework, or some such, in the list of available updates..

Once you've installed it, run Windows Update again, because there were some security updates for it that came out - good to keep up to date with that sort of thing.

I should probably just post the runtime on the SkyBox Viewer site - that would be the simplest solution, I suppose. I'll put it on the list of things to do...

[neon22]

My script here: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=2816.0
does generate the 6 images you need and even calls Nona to stitch them and make an equirectangular image automatically.
(well it makes scripts which you run but its as automatic as you can get without a renderfarm)
Hugin (OS alternative to PTStitcher) also includes an opengL viewer (panoglview.exe) to see these images from the inside.

I haven't tried your program yet. It is similar but uses the 6 images as inputs which is very useful. :-) thanks

I am almost ready to release the Wedging version which does this:
Also a tiny equirectangular pano is attached

[Harvey Birdman]

Oh, cool. I figured someone probably had a script worked out.     I haven't even made it that far into automating the process - I run from machine to machine manually setting up the next images.