FlashPanos

Hello Forum,

As a Mac user I am totaly new to the use of the KRPano Tools for Mac OSX and how to properly setup the XML files.
I know Klaus is busy with a GUI for Mac OSX but in the mean time I want to learn more about the use of KRPano.

To learn more I downloaded the ZIPs in the download section of the KRPano site and I replaced the equirectangular example in the Sphere folder with one of my own.

I was immidiatly out of luck, all I got was a black screen.
When I resized my own JPEG image (8800x4400) to the much smaller size of the example the pano was showed properly.
After some trying I found out that on my system (iMac G5-2 GHZ-2GB RAM) the max. size of the equirectangular is just below 8200x4100 px.
So 8190x4095 is running fine but 8200x4100 is not.

Q1) Is this equirectangular size issue related to my system configuration or due to a build in restriction of the viewer ?

A closer look at my testpano, a view over a beach, showed that the horizon was very ugly bended when the view was aimed at the bottom part, so instead of keeping a straight horizon (such as the player in Pano2VR performs regardless the down view) I get an ugly bended horizon as soon as the horizon is offset to the centre of the player window.

Q2) Is there a setting in the XML or HTML file to correct the ugly bended horizon ?

I am sure there is a lot to explore in KRPano but until the issues above are solved I pause at this stage so I hope someone has the solution.

Best,

Wim