Virtual Tours
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Virtual Tours
Open-Realty 2 supports the following types of Virtual Tours:
- Standard Spherical 360° Panoramic Images in .jpg format (Built in Full Support using PTViewer)
- EGG Solution Virtual Tours using .egg files (Additional file required – See Instructions)
Other, unsupported Virtual Tour formats can be uploaded and used through the creation of an ADDON to handle the display of the unsupported format. You will need to add the file extention and MIME File Type to the Site Configuration in order to upload unsupported formats. Unsupported formats will be displayed as "UNSUPPORTED VTOUR".
See the Addon Documentation for more information on creating an addon. Also check the Addon Releases Forum for any addons that may have already been Released to handle your format.
EGG Solution Virtual Tour Notes:
In order to use the EGG Solution capability of Open-Realty 2 you will need to copy the EGG Solution viewer applet from your EGG Solution software. This applet is Copyrighted by EGG Solution and we have not been able to gain their permission to include in our distribution of Open-Realty 2. We hope we'll be able to get permission in the future.
In your EGG Solution software create a Virtual Tour and Export it to a Web Page. Browse to the location you exported the Virtual Tour to. Copy the following two files to your Open-Realty 2 root folder:
- Applet.ear
- E3d.jar
Creating a Virtual Tour
Open-Realty will not create the virtual tour for you from standard images. You are required to create the virtual tour and upload the resulting images to Open-Realty.
Standard virtual tours can be created using one of the following methods or possibly other methods not discussed here:
- Digital Camera – Fisheye lens – Tripod and Special Mount - Photo Stitching Software
- Digital Camera – 1 shot panoramic lens* – Tripod and Standard Mount – Photo ‘Unwrapping’ software
- Digital Camera – Tripod – Photo Stitching software (note this method will generate an image that can be viewed left to right but not panned up or down and zooming will be limited)
*There are several different 1 shot lenses on the market. Some of these will not create a panoramic image that is compatible with the Standard Virtual Tours using PTViewer. Such is the case with the EGG Solution System. Many of the 1 shot lenses will come with their own proprietary viewer software and applets. These are not compatible with Open-Realty however most can easily be made into an Add-On.
Uploading and Managing Virtual Tours
Once you’ve created your Virtual tour .jpg images or EGG solution .egg file you will need to upload it for the listing it belongs to.
Login to the control panel using your username and password
Click on “Edit My Listings†or if the user has admin powers “Edit All Listingsâ€
Select the listing you want to edit
On the left side of the window you will see two columns; 1 for Listing Images & 1 for Virtual Tours
Click on Virtual Tours
You will presented with the virtual tour management screen where you can edit or delete existing virtual tour images and upload new Virtual Tours.
You can either type in the path on your computer to the Virtual Tour or click on ‘Browse’ and find and select your file
Once the file is selected click upload and your file should be uploaded.
You can upload only 1 .egg file for EGG Solution Virtual Tours and you can NOT mix .egg tours with .jpg tours. Standard .jpg images can be uploaded up to the max number as is set in the site configuration.
You will now see your Virtual Tour is uploaded, indicated by a small copy of your jpg image for Standard Virtual Tours and a EGG Solution placeholder image for EGG Solution Virtual Tours. You can edit the Title and Description for the Virtual Tours you’ve uploaded and they will display under the Tour on Standard Virtual Tours, these fields are not used on EGG Solution Tours although they can be filled out to help you remember details of the tour.
