| Create virtual tours of your house or surroundings. This effect will give you a realistic 3D view of your fisheye photos and even let you navigate through rooms or environments. Maybe you can even make a game out of it!
Applet Size
To give a real 3d impression, make sure you have set the applet size smaller than the image height. It will let the visitors look up to the ceiling and ground and thus increase the 3D experience. You must of course try to use images that have a large width.
Selecting Images
Don't use an image that is too big. Note that the image
will be included into the SWF file, and it may swell to enormous
proportions. Try modifying the compression setting to decrease
the SWF file size. Click on the 360 degrees image checkbox to let the visitors navigate around the image. It is preferable that you use a 360 degrees image for this. However, without this setting you can give a 3D impression to a normal picture, try it and see. The perspective angle will set the amount of "3D distortion", this is arbitrary for each type of picture.
Adding URLs and navigation points
Here you can specify URLs or SWF files that will be invoked or loaded when a visitor clicks on a navigation point. The navigation points appear as small open doors. You can specify here another instance of this applet with another picture and so create a virtual tour of connected panoramic applets. For each URL or SWF movie you specify you have to have a corresponding pixel value that is the distance of the navigation point from the left corner of the picture. This pixel value is easiest to find out using an image processing software that can measure pixel positions. The URL window size will be used to define an area around the navigation point in which the small door should appear. This is the actual width of the navigation point.
Navigation mode
You can enable the "move on clicking" checkbox to let the users click on the effect in order to navigate. Without this checkbox on the mouse movement will me made automatically.
Maximum Zoom
This setting will affect the amount of the image
zoom. The zooming will be applied when the visitor click's when the magnifyer tool is visible (in the center of the applet).
Mouse Sensitivity
You set the mouse sensitivity with this setting. NOTE! The higher value this setting has, the lower navigation speed will you have. Maximum navigation speed is set by setting this to 1.
Automatic movement
By checking this feature, you can let the applet navigate itself when the visitor is not moving the mouse across the applet. You can set the step in pixels (the speed) and the inactivity timeout.
Other settings
There are other settings that are discussed on the following
topics from the Anfy Flash documentation:
 The
Flash Applet Size Parameters
Working
With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Text Fields
Compression
Ratios for images
Working with Check Boxes
URL Links and Frame Targets
Entering Text Or Files
Working With Time Delays and Pauses
Version history
1.1 : Added an option for navigating without clicking on the image.
Anibal Wainstein
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