Flash Virtual Tour?
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Hey, I'm probably in over my head here. I know very little about flash. I sort of played with it about 4 years ago, but never really made anything with it, and certainly never got to a point where I feel like I understand it.
I would like to make a virtual tour using SketchUp and flash. Something where you start on a rendered image, and there are buttons or hotspots on the image. You can click on those and move to a new location in the model. The movement from location to location should probably be animated. I think that some of the onscreen buttons would pop up informational text about the model also. I would also like to have a small model legend overlay in the bottom corner too, to help show the navigation through the model.
I just don't understand where to start. Does anyone have a good video tutorial that would help explain how to make something like this in flash?
This is only experimental, and is not something I have to get done. So there is a good chance I'll try it out and end up deciding its just too much to learn right now. But if anyone has any tutorials or hints, I'd be grateful! Thanks,
Chris
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By the way, I forgot to mention that I am not interested in a 3d pano QTVR type presentation. That makes the client sea-sick
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I also need to learn this, I have a client that needs a visual for his website, it's office furniture and wants some sort of interactive image that you can click on the draws and they open, doors open, chair swivels, etc.
So once you find out let me know.
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Trust me... Learning Flash isn't easy...
Perhaps you both can benefit from Swish instead... -
@chris fullmer said:
Hey, I'm probably in over my head here. I know very little about flash. I sort of played with it about 4 years ago, but never really made anything with it, and certainly never got to a point where I feel like I understand it.
I would like to make a virtual tour using SketchUp and flash. Something where you start on a rendered image, and there are buttons or hotspots on the image. You can click on those and move to a new location in the model. The movement from location to location should probably be animated. I think that some of the onscreen buttons would pop up informational text about the model also. I would also like to have a small model legend overlay in the bottom corner too, to help show the navigation through the model.
I just don't understand where to start. Does anyone have a good video tutorial that would help explain how to make something like this in flash?
This is only experimental, and is not something I have to get done. So there is a good chance I'll try it out and end up deciding its just too much to learn right now. But if anyone has any tutorials or hints, I'd be grateful! Thanks,
Chris
Have a look here http://www.cartoonsmart.com he is a good instructor and has some great flash tutorials..
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Hi Chris (and all), I use this software (€40) to run my panoramas. It can be fed by spherical/cylindrical panoramas, QTVR.mov files or those six images you export to make those QTVR panoramas.
All it needs is the main swf file (engine) that is provided, some additional (and conditional) swf files as plugins (for hotspots for instance), the image/mov file(s) and an xml file to "rule" the panorama. XML is an easy language (I bet you would at least undefrstand what you are doing) but for some extra €'s you can get "Flashificator" to do verything on a wysiwyg typ interface.
Make sure you have a look at the Forum Showcase to see what people do with FPP. Here is a very cool example (right click and go full screen), too, with the clock on the wall displaying your computer time, images on the desk clickable and movie playing on the computer screen.
I am just about to start a new project myself where kids will be able to tour around the different historic phases of a 300 year old tanner house (currently our local town history museum) with this software. Flash is pretty cross-platform and cross-browser and this can be run locally as well as on the net.
@chris fullmer said:
You can click on those and move to a new location in the model. The movement from location to location should probably be animated.
There are several plugins (both free and commercial) on their forums. This one ($25) for instance gives you the "feel" of some motion blur and transition effect when you move between nodes.
(And no, they are not advertising here and no, I do/did not get a free copy myself either)
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This is also a cool tour (let it "autoplay").
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I also like Unity (would like it even better if I could wrap my head around it) but that isn't flash (the original request was for flash), it needs a separate plugin (many customers are reluctant to install - even if thy can and not the company IT guys have to do it) and the plugin does not work in all browsers (AFAIK) although what it works in, would probably cover some 98% of people's preferences...
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Unity3D ? (and it's free
I believe you can't find more powerful and versatile for the price[flash=480,385:lwqdawz5]http://www.youtube.com/v/Y4t-C0pH1rs?fs=1&[/flash:lwqdawz5]
making of
[flash=480,385:lwqdawz5]http://www.youtube.com/v/itCbeQpK17w?fs=1&[/flash:lwqdawz5]some prefab for Jacuzzi
[flash=480,385:lwqdawz5]http://www.youtube.com/v/xysUQYfW29w?fs=1&[/flash:lwqdawz5] -
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Yes, definitely a cool one, too. I would piss in my pants if I had to be so much high to take photos however.
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Thanks everyone so far. The first series of links might be closest what I need.
I could have been more prcise what I'm looking for. Here is an example of something almost identical:
http://www.environmentsforliving.com/
click on "Take the Virtual Home Tour"
Really 3d panos are just out, completely, no way to do that at this point. The client hates them with a passion.
Also, this is a national scale project, and having the whole country have to download an extra plugin would not go over well. We might even be over optimistic by using flash honestly.
I did make some progress with flash, and getting some basic buttons made that control animations. So I'll keep poking around to see if I can figure out how best to make menus and buttons and animations.
Thanks,
Chris
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