FMS_PL and FMSXYZ

[lcsaba]

I have to apologize because somewhere I said that the picture needed is Mercator.
This is not true Cylindrical panorama picture is needed.

FMS_PL

FMS_PL can produce perfect FMS Landscape, if the picture is for Cylindrical mapping and because of two pixels overlapping 8176 *2046 pixel picture size should be selected (76,3° angle of view and about 4:1 aspect ratio).

The good feature of FMS_PL that it can produce 2*8 pictures.

FMSXYZ

First of all FMSXYZ is for displaying and moving objects. If the picture mapping is relative and therefore Position command is used the objects are displayed even if FMS Landscape is panorama type.

The mapping planned is Cylindrical, but overlapping is needed otherwise white stripes are visible between pictures therefore I am taking the mapping and pictures from FMS_PL.

The sky should not be square therefore mapping of the sky picture is needed, for the time being a quarter picture is mapped to the top matching to two faces of the eight sided cylinder.

The sky panorama picture should be circular, the matching of the circular cylinder and the circular picture of the region around the zenith in principle should be perfect.

In practice the approximation error is too big. Therefore my next effort will be the elaboration of a 32 sided cylinder and the appropriate sky picture mapping.

If anybody is interested the Telki_Cylinder FMS Landscape can be downloaded and the quality checked.

http://www.sztaki.hu/~csaba.laszlo


I don’t know converter program which can convert equirectangular picture (reflex) to 76,3° Cylindrical. Therefore only those can use cylindrical mapping who are stitching the panorama picture themselves. If equirectangular picture is used there is a distortion about 20%.

[smcxx66]

[lcsaba]

I know this method. This is applied for instance at "Albhang".

This can be done if the object in fact is not on the panorama picture, therefore a "copy" of it is not visible on the background picture.

My trees are covering the trees on the panorama wall.

I have an idea how to solve this problem if the object is on the remote wall.

Unfortunatelly I don't know what is the role of the fourth parameter value of the Pilote_Position. In my .scn files the value of this is "FIXED". At Albhang "120". And what is important at "Albhang" the "chase" view function can be switched "on". If I replace the "FIXED" with a number I see a very nice panorama picture, a white region inside a circle and a circular panorama picture around it. What is the problem?
Could you using Telki find a workable value for this?

[smcxx66]

I don't know..becuase it dosen't have to be FIX.
you can put number in there. above 1000 it gose into an
over head shot.lol The samething when you click
the chase veiw while in photolistic mode.

if you put a negative sign it pans up sort of..but it's
not right.lol

I know the pilot posistioning pivets around the model.
Like using the # keys to rotate around the model.
I was thinking it would be like so...but not.lol

Notice now the model always load in the center of the screen.
It's like an illusion with the images in there.lol