FlashPanos

2008-01-08 01:33:37 +0000

Super flexible dropdown (or dropup) menu for pano-to-pano navigation in an FPP presentation. Contributed by Patrick Cheatham. Easy to use and powerful! Now at Version 3.0.

You won't need to hand-code a Flash ComboBox again! This will allow you to define the panorama names and links from within your FPP XML document, making adding a dropdown a truly dynamic experience. The panorama names you define show up as the label for the menu, and the links are used to load new panoramas into your presentation. As an added bonus, it will also load panoramas from a hotspot click in your FPP presentation!

demo:
Setting all parameters
Setting only panorama links

By popular demand, a plugin which lets you create a custom context menu (right click menu) for your FPP presentation! Insert as many menu items and links as you want (up to Adobe's limit of 15). And, it's free to download and use!

06/24/2008 update:

AutoHorizon is a super flexible plugin which makes your virtual tour panorama go to its horizon after a predefined period of time (and more!). Automatically finds the shortest path to the horizon (no more whirling hotspots!). Contributed by Patrick Cheatham. Easy to use and powerful!

Fellow FPP enthusiast Chen Luo has created a handful of cool Lens Flare plugins ("smart hotspots") for everyone to use. Included are example SWFs, XML files, and the source FLA files.

Simply place your favorite Lens Flare SWF as a <spot/> in your FPP XML file, give it a pan and tilt placement, and away you go!

Example usage:

The HideAPano "encryption" utility is finally ready for public use!

ia_video plays linear media files (.flv and .swf) under XML control in FPP. Its main use is for playing transition movies between pans. Contributed by FPP forum user Rick Workman. Version 1.0, free.

ia_ambientmix manages a set of sound loops so that background audio mixes can be dynamically controlled from xml. Contributed by FPP forum user Rick Workman. Version 1.0, free.

This is a quick mod of readily available code to make a mouseover thumbnail carousel for flash panorama player. Free and open source. Demo - .fla and .swf

This plugin will allow you to control an entire group of hotspots from a single hotspot! Contributed by Patrick Cheatham. Easy to use and powerful!

Tired of writing repetitive, super-long functions in your Flash Panoramas XML, when you have a whole set of hotspots to show/hide, rotate, fade, or otherwise manipulate? Then this is the plugin for you!

Highly configurable text tooltips for your hotspots. Free and Open SourceDemo - Download .swf - Download .fla