[Openpanorama-info] Update and need suggestions....

[Mathieu VILLEGAS]

Hello,

Sorry for my bad english.

I've update the document about the scripting language. You can download 
it in the download section ( the CVS has not been updated at this time). 
It's a first thought, so suggestions, corrections and ideas are welcome.

I need your point of view for a little problem: at this time, I don't 
really know how to describe a rendering window (rectangle where the 
panorama is displayed) in the panorama. What parametrs do we have to set 
in the panorama files and which ones have to be viewer parameters.....
In a first thought, I've think to create a camera object. So that, we 
will be able to do automatic camera movement and images or object 
movements ( automatic movements) with the same functions.. The camera 
knows its max ad min pan, tilt and zoom values, its x,y,z position 
(having x,y,z position may allow us to easily create the effects you 
will see in this page:  http://www.cs.ust.hk/~cpegnel/ACLP/thesis.html   
thanks to James Rigg for this link).
Are the camera parameters able to set the rendering window size and 
position?
Can we have more than one camera in a panorama file?
Can we have more than one panorama in a file?

In fact one of the problem here is to know what is part of a panorama 
parameters and data, and what is part of the viewer parametrs and data?
If a viewer support all OpenPanorama file format specifications, it will 
be more easy to use OpenPanorama specifications (interfaces, buttons, 
images, etc....) to describe and configure the viewer.
So, do you think it's a good thing to create a Panorama file format, and 
in the same time a viewer configuration file format? The viewer file 
format will use most the Panorama file format to describe its own 
interface, so it will have really a few things to do.

Your suggestions, ideas, etc are welcome.
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Regards

Mathieu Villegas