Week 6 - Meeting

So far we've been doing each of our individual parts and combining them more and more.

We've had a meeting and I managed to see a few of the interface design done by Sarah, she has decided to stick to a slightly more robotic layout giving a metalic background and using the colour blue as the main theme colour.
I've discussed with her where the windows should be placed and how big do we want the VR tour window to be, we've decided to stick to a 800 by 600 interface size to cautor for smaller laptop screens which is becoming increasingly common now a days. Talked about sliding menu bars that appear on screen when triggered by a button click.

As for the panoramas to use for the work-in-progress, Anthony and I have decided to used the level 3 section from TEDI to the nursing foyer, and have link hotspots and also 1 information point to show an example of how information would appear on screen.
However we've yet to be able to settle with a good QTVR program, most of what we've managed to get a trial version, which are either very limited in feature or has everything but export to QTVR.

I've managed to get the VR tour code working and am currently trying it out on several veriations, different height, different size, different length of images, different number of images, basically trying to cover all angles with the code. Will be adding the hotspots soon to have a look and feel of things and also to test out the transition method which Sarah and I had discussed about.
I've also manged to solve the problem which Matt Simpson proposed, about updating the formation easily, Director is able to call in text from an external .txt file, which means all we have to do is to change the text in the .txt file and when the director file is being run, the changes will reflect in them as well. Now a new point has been brougt up by Anthony, which I think may be possible.
Can the same thing be done for images? From what I know there are such things as external cast files, so I was thinking of these images where an external cast file, and the same effect might be able to ve achieved by just either changing the image or the cast file.