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Title: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 18, 2009, 12:14:14 PM

I discovered Terragen a few days ago and had this idea to make a VR with my composition. It's my 4th realisation with virtual pictures.

Please, listen to and watch at this VR I made with Terragen v.1

http://www.visites-interactives.eu/fr/visite-lac-reflexions/reflexions.html

(http://www.visites-interactives.eu/images/reflexions.png)

What do you think of it ? Can it be improved and how ? I would like to stay with Terragen v1 for some time as I'm a beginner.

Thanks to all

Thierry
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: cyphyr on March 18, 2009, 12:16:46 PM
No speakers on my desktop so I cant listen but the VR is awesome!!! How did you do this?
richard
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: domdib on March 18, 2009, 12:38:23 PM
Looks like it was done in Quicktime to me. Mojoworld has a facility for creating these.
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 18, 2009, 01:15:32 PM
Quote from: domdib on March 18, 2009, 12:38:23 PM
Looks like it was done in Quicktime to me. Mojoworld has a facility for creating these.

Hi,

I don't know the soft you are talking about. This VR is made with Flash as Flash is the only viewer that can be seen all over the world and it's installed by default on all the computers since about 5 or 6 years. That's the major reason of this choice.

Sorry for my english, hum, hum, I'm french.
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: inkydigit on March 18, 2009, 01:16:45 PM
looks great, sounds cool too...my only crit would be the sun's reflection, and glow size...did you do this with tg0.9 mac?
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 18, 2009, 03:02:02 PM
Quote from: inkydigit on March 18, 2009, 01:16:45 PM
...did you do this with tg0.9 mac?

Terragen v.0.943 - I'm working on PC and have an experience as panoramist photographer (http://www.visites-interactives.eu). Sometimes, the weather is bad, it's better to stay at home and work with Terragen !
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 18, 2009, 04:22:04 PM
Quote from: inkydigit on March 18, 2009, 01:16:45 PM
looks great, sounds cool too...my only crit would be the sun's reflection, and glow size...

I agree with you about the sun's reflection, I would like to get a better one, but I don't have experiment till now. Could you advise me on the way to proceed ?
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: domdib on March 18, 2009, 04:59:30 PM
V nice site.
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: chefc on March 18, 2009, 06:33:58 PM
Agree w/ the reflections post but other then that pretty sweet V 8) ;D
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: fuzzyEuclid on March 18, 2009, 07:07:30 PM
Sweet.

Right-click on the flash object, you'll see the company's info link. Software for this: http://www.krpano.com/
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: jo on March 18, 2009, 09:47:51 PM
Hi,

Quote from: domdib on March 18, 2009, 12:38:23 PM
Looks like it was done in Quicktime to me. Mojoworld has a facility for creating these.

TG Mac v0.9 can make cubic and cylindrical QTVR panoramas as well.

Regards,

Jo
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 26, 2009, 05:56:14 PM

... Here's another example. Don't forget sound !


Click here please :

http://www.visites-interactives.eu/fr/visite-gypaete/site/gypaete.html


Just a quick snap of the visit :



Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: jackblack on March 26, 2009, 06:50:40 PM
So how did you do it? The VR part?
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 27, 2009, 02:49:13 AM
Quote from: jackblack on March 26, 2009, 06:50:40 PM
So how did you do it? The VR part?

Terragen, it's my part, but then it's my wife who transform my picture in VR. I know she's using Krpano now, but you can use any other soft : quicktime, java, Panoflash, Pano2qtvr and many others... Each of these is different, the better is to go directly to these softs which require a learning for most of them. Some are easy, others are rather complicated.
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: rcallicotte on March 27, 2009, 10:29:40 AM
Pretty cool work.
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 28, 2009, 06:42:22 AM
Quote from: calico on March 27, 2009, 10:29:40 AM
Pretty cool work.


Thanks, so do I think, though I'm just beginner and working with the first and free version.  ;) Terragen v.0.943 even in its first and free version is great !
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: Luminos on March 28, 2009, 02:19:11 PM
You just wait and see what can be accomplished with Terragen 2. I'm not a regular poster but I've watched the forums for little while now and the images that these people are creating are just amazing. Dandelo rendering unusual objects and putting TG2 to its limits. Mohawk with his amazing scenery and I have to say the recent project with parting the Water, astounding. Moodflow creates the most realistic pictures I have ever seen. and Ryan Archer's pictures make my jaw drop. These are just some of the few names that stand out in my head. All pictures that come through are amazing.

Keep up the great work everyone, very impressed with the VR :D

Ryan B ;D
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: Mohawk20 on March 28, 2009, 05:52:22 PM
Thanks for the compliments Ryan. The fun thing is: we're all still learning as well (which means you might get far nicer results when you know how stuff works). I'm sure the others you named think about it the same way I do.

But I agree, you should try TG2!
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: dandelO on March 28, 2009, 10:44:44 PM
Likewise. Thanks, Ryan! :) And yes, I'm always still learning aswell, and am constantly blown away by things I see posted in this place. I started out in 3D with TG 0.9, it's a fantastic stepping stone into the CG world and I'm sure in no time you'll be blowing us away with TG2 panoramas too, Trekker! Great site by the way, I spent some time there yesterday.
Welcome to PS! :)
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 29, 2009, 07:09:04 AM
Many thanks for your comments. When I see your pictures made with Terragen 2, it's obviously better than the former version. I had a look at it, but found it not so intuitive as the first version. I'll buy the v.0,943 at first and will upload the TG v.2 later.

As far as this example is concerned :

http://www.visites-interactives.eu/fr/visite-gypaete/site/gypaete.html

the final size is :

width : 6500 pixels
height : 3250 pixels

Terragen render : about 8 hours. I'm afraid that it will take much more time with the TG2 version, so wait and see...
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: jackblack on March 29, 2009, 11:44:15 AM
So how did you make the angle map (the spherical image in your first post)?
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 29, 2009, 04:29:41 PM
Quote from: jackblack on March 29, 2009, 11:44:15 AM
So how did you make the angle map (the spherical image in your first post)?


Do you mean the "little planet" as preview at the beginning of this thread ? I'm not sure I understood your question. There are many softs to do that. But you can also try with Photoshop (in french : filtre < deformation < coordonnées polaires). My favourite soft is this one :

http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2qtvr.php  (it's called "thumbnails"). Really quick and easy.

Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: jackblack on March 29, 2009, 11:21:09 PM
Yes the "little planet" is what I was referring to, did you first make a skybox though (a skybox consists of 6 images, north, south, east, west, up, down)?

Thanks for the link to the website, I will check it out.

Great work by the way :)
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 30, 2009, 05:06:53 AM
Quote from: jackblack on March 29, 2009, 11:21:09 PM
...did you first make a skybox though (a skybox consists of 6 images, north, south, east, west, up, down)?...

To get nice results, you have to realise a complete 360 x 180° first (not easy at all). Then, you insert your final picture (not necessarily composed of 6 images) in the appropriate menu and let it do (very simple at this step). If your picture is not a complete 360 x 180°, you will have to add some manual work with Photoshop to adjust the photography in the circle.
Title: Re: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - My first post !
Post by: trekker317 on March 30, 2009, 07:21:45 AM


Just forgot to give an example of a little planet I made with Photoshop only :

http://www.visites-interactives.eu/fr/art-numerique-petit-prince.html

I can remember that I started from a 360 but not a 360 x 180 at this time (2 years ago). So, if you are interested, you should try and imagine another world...

Other little planets can also be seen here : http://www.visites-interactives.eu/fr/art-numerique.html

Best

Thierry
Title: VR 360 X 180° with Terragen v.0.943 - A few examples...
Post by: trekker317 on April 02, 2009, 07:43:49 AM
Now, a third example : mixing 3D and real pictures. This idea came as I was not satisfied with the landscape outside my virtual tour. I created something not so far as reality and added it to my "real" visit.

Hope you will enjoy... (don't forget sound).

Here's the new link : http://www.visites-interactives.eu/fr/visite-lakshme/lakshme.html

Best,

Thierry