FlashPanos

Panosalado is the open source Flash based panorama player/viewer.

PanoSalado is collaboratively developed by your FlashPanos.com hosts, Patrick and Zephyr; it's headquartered here at FlashPanos.com and at GoogleCode. PanoSalado is based atop a Papervision3D core, accessible to both the Flash IDE and Flex developer alike, and hugely extensible.

Please see the forums, which are now live!

http://flashpanos.com/forum

Anyone can discuss, learn, and share information regarding the current crop of Flash based panorama viewers (Flash Panorama Player, krpano, Pano2VR, Papervision 3D, PanoSalado, Lucid Viewer).

This is a continuation -- the latest release! -- of our Open Source Saga, whereby we are creating a set of libraries sat atop Papervision 3D... all with the intention of making it possible and desirable for the community at large to co-develop a Flash-based Panorama Viewer.

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PanoSalado now has its very own blog. For the latest news, source files and examples head on over to the PanoSalado Blog. You can also directly subscribe to the blog feed and never be without your PanoSalado.
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This is the first part of a multi part series of tutorials written by Zephyr Renner and Patrick Cheatham that will look at some of the advanced functionality a user can produce by getting beyond what can be accomplished with Flash Panorama Player's XML configuration files, and getting into programming Actionscript (AS3).

There are a number of ways to create Actionscript based interaction with FPP, and primary amongst them is with a plugin, so that is where we are going to start.

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 latest news, source and examples are at the PanoSalado Blog.

We still love using Flash Panorama Player -- who doesn't? -- but we're also tinkerers... The growing prevalence of 360° panoramas being delivered on news media Web sites and a few other places have surprised us by being (for the most part) sat atop of the Papervision 3D engine.