VR Panoramas > Director/Shockwave

As a multimedia creation tool, Director can incorporate photo-quality images, full-screen or long-form digital video, sounds, animation, 3D models, text, bitmap images, and of course Macromedia Flash content.

Take the sample above (you will need to have Shockwave player installed in order to view it – it should be noted, to avoid confusion, that Director is the development application; Shockwave is the file format it produces (for the web). Director and Shockwave, then, are the same thing!). This is effectively the same result as the ‘compass’ demo you have viewed earlier - in the LiveStage section. Although this is not directly opening a QTVR movie file it is actually incorporating it within its ‘stage’ using standard Quicktime viewing technology. In other words, you need BOTH Quicktime AND Shockwave installed to view QTVR in this format.

Just like any Quicktime file, in Director/Shockwave the "VR" navigation aspects of a QTVR sprite can be controlled using the mouse and keyboard. While a QuickTime VR video is on the ‘Stage’ and the Director movie is playing, Director preserves the QuickTime navigation controls and functionality of all nodes and hotspots.

Like LiveStage’s Qscript, an extra level of interaction can be enabled via Director’s scripting language: ‘Lingo’. With Lingo, you can disable the QuickTime controls and let the user move the view of the panorama or object directly with your own navigational controls. You can also activate ‘handlers’ when the pointer rolls over a hotspot, when a hotspot is clicked, when the view changes, or when a node is entered or exited.