[mods: please move to wherever you think this oughta live, as it doesn't appear to belong in any existing forum]
I like to make 360º panoramas, and it's nice if I can assemble them into virtual tours with hotspots.
The most convenient tool I've found thus for for assembling a virtual tour with hotspots is the abandonware, EOL Marzipano Tool, which is distinct from the open-source Marzipano Viewer.
It's really terrific; just upload your images and click around to add your hotspots, then export a .zip, and Bob's your Uncle.
The key missing feature is the complete inability to load and edit an existing project. You can modify a project that's open, and export it as many times as you want, but once you've closed your browser session, that's it. If you want to change the virtual tour, you either have to start over or start editing code by hand.
The good news is that the server-side code is very lightweight (4 MB), and available for download, and the processing is all done in-browser, so I've put a copy on my Mac, which includes a copy of Apache, so I don't have to worry about it going away someday.
But the key problem remains the inability to load an existing project. One possible workaround is to create some sort of . . . . environment? that contains both the server instance and the browser instance, so I can save the whole thing and reload it whenever I want to resume work on the project. A VM would work, of course, but that would be massive overkill. Is this was Docker is for?
What's the lightest-weight thing I could create that could run and store the server side and a Chrome browser instance?
Or is there another way to do this?
Thanks!
I like to make 360º panoramas, and it's nice if I can assemble them into virtual tours with hotspots.
The most convenient tool I've found thus for for assembling a virtual tour with hotspots is the abandonware, EOL Marzipano Tool, which is distinct from the open-source Marzipano Viewer.
It's really terrific; just upload your images and click around to add your hotspots, then export a .zip, and Bob's your Uncle.
The key missing feature is the complete inability to load and edit an existing project. You can modify a project that's open, and export it as many times as you want, but once you've closed your browser session, that's it. If you want to change the virtual tour, you either have to start over or start editing code by hand.
The good news is that the server-side code is very lightweight (4 MB), and available for download, and the processing is all done in-browser, so I've put a copy on my Mac, which includes a copy of Apache, so I don't have to worry about it going away someday.
But the key problem remains the inability to load an existing project. One possible workaround is to create some sort of . . . . environment? that contains both the server instance and the browser instance, so I can save the whole thing and reload it whenever I want to resume work on the project. A VM would work, of course, but that would be massive overkill. Is this was Docker is for?
What's the lightest-weight thing I could create that could run and store the server side and a Chrome browser instance?
Or is there another way to do this?
Thanks!
