CUBIC PANORAMA PLUGIN released! (beta)

[Candle]

this is a new card i just got last week.

[Von Knudenberg]

It seems that sunday came soon. After 250 km driving these lousy asphalts my destination contact phoned about really severe vomiting disease. Since I have to be on flight on monday, I decided to turn back and drive home "sweet" home (first time in F-18C Hornet and I'm quite sure that I'm going to vomit even without any certain disease :).

And now cut the bullexcrement and back to topic!

I tested your most new ocx. I had same kind of results like with 1.5 beta. Starting face is okay (with green triangle when turning from right). All the other faces turns to green, just like they did with 1.5.

But don't give up! Cut those big balls from these evil spirited new graphic cards. I'm sure you will do that eventually.

-Pete

[Imari]

Hi GM, I just got home and have tested your two new versions on my 8800 GTX. I had the same problems with the green triangles forming and the green faces as the others did with the first version.

With the pink and green version (oh my eyes! ), I think that I may have had a slightly different effect. I see the pink faces and the green seams/edges at the start.

1. If I place my cursor mid-way down one of the corner seams/edges and drag my cursor straight down, I get a green triangle, pointing left and forming always to the left side, not the right. If I continue dragging down the corner seam until I pan onto the bottom face of the cube, I can still see the triangle on the left "wall" and the floor is divided in half on the diagonal. The left half of the floor is green.

2. If I drag my cursor upwards from the mid-way point on the seam instead of down, the triangle does not form, however, soon after my cursor crosses the corner onto the top face of the cube, the whole top face of the cube goes green.

3. Back to the midpoint of the corner seam... If I pan left, I first get the green triangle pointing left towards the center of the face. Then the face is entirely green for about 20 degrees of movement, and then the pink face "renders".

4. From the midpoint of the face, I can move up or down to the upper and lower edges just fine, but if I pan more than about 20 degrees left or right of center, the whole face goes green again.

Hope this helps, and thanks for slugging away at this again.

[P. S. to Pete - Yipes, good luck on that flight! ]

[Genomax]

Hi Gm!

I don?t see all pink faces, triangles and squares in green.

Need an image?

I've a 8600GT and WinXp32, let me try it in x64...

See you soon. ;D

[Ron_Emad2]

Dear Gm-Support
Yes-I have difficult with beta 1 on geforce 8400
but in new version i dont see any difficult but the screen is pink
and i thinks it can remove fast?
with thanks
emad

[GM-Support]

this is a new card i just got last week

Oh ok, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

F-18C Hornet

Wow!

I had same kind of results like with 1.5 beta. Starting face is okay (with green triangle when turning from right). All the other faces turns to green, just like they did with 1.5.

Ok, thanks for the info. So it seems that it is not a problem of textures or texture coordinates then. Thanks.

pink and green version (oh my eyes! )

LOL, I used the first colors I found

1. If I place my cursor mid-way down one of the corner seams/edges and drag my cursor straight down, I get a green triangle, pointing left and forming always to the left side, not the right. If I continue dragging down the corner seam until I pan onto the bottom face of the cube, I can still see the triangle on the left "wall" and the floor is divided in half on the diagonal. The left half of the floor is green.
2. If I drag my cursor upwards from the mid-way point on the seam instead of down, the triangle does not form, however, soon after my cursor crosses the corner onto the top face of the cube, the whole top face of the cube goes green.
3. Back to the midpoint of the corner seam... If I pan left, I first get the green triangle pointing left towards the center of the face. Then the face is entirely green for about 20 degrees of movement, and then the pink face "renders".
4. From the midpoint of the face, I can move up or down to the upper and lower edges just fine, but if I pan more than about 20 degrees left or right of center, the whole face goes green again.

Thanks Imari. That sounds pretty complicate, with no simple recognizable pattern... mmmh...

I don?t see all pink faces, triangles and squares in green. Need an image?

Thanks Genomax. There is no need an image if it is the same problem that the others are experiencing. Let me know in case you find a simple pattern (i.e. a simple law that determines when the triangles are rendered and when they are not).

but in new version i dont see any difficult but the screen is pink

Ok. Thanks Emad.

[GM-Support]

I have attached to this message a small app for testing DirectX 7 (the same version used by the cubic panorama plugin).

When you launch the DirectXTest.exe file, you should see a colored square that rotates at the center of the screen, as shown in the attached screenshot. It runs full screen, so don't be afraid if when you launch it it takes the whole screen (it's like most games).

If the attached test file works fine, I can use it to improve the cubic panorama plugin.

Note: this is only for the people who are experiencing the GeForce problems

[Candle]

Seem to work fine on mine.

[Imari]

The DX7 test worked fine for me. Simple 4 color square, spinning in one plane.

[Von Knudenberg]

This test worked fine for me too.

-Pete

[GM-Support]

Ok, thanks. I am going to change the plugin so that it has the same settings as the DirectX test.

[Ron_Emad2]

Oh
I thinks new version of this plugin coming soon
i wish this work fine
with thanks
emad

[Genomax]

Hi!

test worked fine for me, master.

C.U

[Ron_Emad2]

oh / dear Gm-Support
Please wright about licences of this plug-in for commerical use
in finial version we can use it for commerical ??
with thanks
emad

[GM-Support]

OK, so here is the beta 1.7.

I have made lots of changes, so I cross my fingers.

What you should see this time is the 6 faces of the cube in black, and the background in green (see attached screenshot). When you launch the game, the whole screen should be black, and, as you turn around, you should see the 6 black faces.

Thanks.

[Genomax]

HI GM!

I run the test perfectly, black squares with green edges.
No distorsion, no flicking....

PERFECT!

THanks!

[GM-Support]

HI GM!

I run the test perfectly, black squares with green edges.
No distorsion, no flicking....

PERFECT!

THanks!

Wow, that is really great news!!!

I am going to add the textures back, to see if we can keep it working.

[Imari]

::jumps up and down!!!::

Whoo-hoo! It works, Giovanni. Yer a genius.

[GM-Support]

Let's try with the textures now (attached is the beta 1.8 ).

I hope it works with the textures too

[Imari]

Version 1.8 worked great! You may need to tweak something in the Image Combiner, though. In each "room" of my test, I had a 1 pixel wide, dotted white line along the seam of the upper face of the cube. I have Image Combiner version 1.0.

Great work!

[GM-Support]

Version 1.8 worked great! You may need to tweak something in the Image Combiner, though. In each "room" of my test, I had a 1 pixel wide, dotted white line along the seam of the upper face of the cube. I have Image Combiner version 1.0.

Great work!

Thanks Imari!

Can you please attach your combined image so that I can tweak the texture coordinates?

Thanks

[Imari]

Hi GM, I was just testing the new plug-in in the new version of AM, so it works in both 4.4 and 4.5. One of my test frames is attached.

[GM-Support]

Mmm... I cannot seem to reproduce the 1-pixel problem on my computer.

1. Does it concern only the upper face?

2. Do the 4 edges (the 4 lines that form a square around the face) of the upper face look the same? I mean, are they all white, or is one of them of another color?

Thanks

[Genomax]

Great Master, thanks!!!!!

It work perfect now... only my first problem persist... the small difference of images in the edges...

Attach a litle image.

Thanks you for the support!

C.U

I used the same cubemap...

[Imari]

Hi GM, yes it only seems to affect the top face. Perhaps it has something to do with the way my computer is reading the upper edge of the composit image? I also see a slight shift between places in one frame, similar to the problem that Geno is having.

Here are two pictures, sorry for the large size. I can reduce them if need be.

[Imari]

The one with the shift.

[GM-Support]

Imari, can you please attach the combined image that corresponds to the second problem? (the shift)

Thanks

[Imari]

Sorry... went for dinner... here it is, GM.

[GM-Support]

Thanks.

The reason why I wasn't able to reproduce your problem is that I was using 2048x1365 images, while you seem to be using 3072x2048 pictures.

I will keep you updated.

[Imari]

Oops, I mistakenly thought that the Image Combiner automatically resized to the proper dimensions. Sorry.