RE: FS One by Hangar 9
Dave; I reviewed my process, here it is:
Okay, here we go. First I want you to know that this exercise hurt my brain.
Correction: I took 194 photos to create the pano, the tripod was set so the camera was 6 foot high and I used a normal swivel and tilt head.
I used Autostitch to connect all the images together, I had to play with the settings some.
After Autostitch, I opened up the resulting panorama image in Photoshop and filled in any blank areas with white (in my case it was the white painted areas anyway)
Still in Photoshop, I selected the slice tool and highlighted the entire image. Right clicked on the image and specified; divide horizontal into 4 rows, divide vertical into 4 rows.
Then I selected File>Save for Web (now I’m pretty sure I didn’t have this option when I first started and I needed to download this as an add-on). Once the Save for Web opens, I selected save as a png-24. Clicked ok and specified the location.
I then Opened DDSConverter 2 (free download – just Google it). Here I navigated to the png files (which by the way are all numbered just right for FSOne - thank you photoshop slicing tool) and highlighted all the images. I checked the options and set them like the FAQ suggested. Selected save and done. I just created the low quality images talked about in the FAQ.
Technically you should go back to the pano image in Photoshop and reslice it the image this time into 4 rows and 8 columns, and then again in 8 x 16. however you might note that in the garage pano I created, I only did the medium images and I just repeated these images in each of the image folders for FSOne as described in the FAQ. I did this in case I put the quality level to low or high and I didn't want a white screen or black screen because there was an empty image folder.
The rest of the process, doing the ele, dom and fld file are all extremely important and must be prepared to the letter, or the whole thing won’t work.
I hope you have photoshop, if not maybe someone else knows of an alternative for a slicing program.
Best of luck, ask any question you want, now that I've reminded myself how to do it, I should be able to help further if need be.
Scott H