[Pipmak-Users] Ideas for lens effects and sun glare in Pipmak

[Simon J. <sim...@ya...>]

Hi!=0A=0Awhile watching these panoramas on www.begann.de:=0A=0Ahttp://www.b=
egann.de/panorama/pano6.html=0Ahttp://www.begann.de/panorama/pano2.html=0A=
=0A...I thought that Pipmak is still missing these nice lens and sun glare =
effects, which are also found in other 360=C2=B0 game-engines like Myst III=
: Exile and Myst IV: Revelation. In Exile, I think gamma control is used fo=
r the effect and Revelation uses some more advanced 3D-technologies for the=
 lens-effect. My first impression playing around with these (Java-) panoram=
as found on begann.de was, that they use some kind of transparent layers, l=
ike several semi-transparent *.png images moving in correlation to the came=
ra's angle of view (lens effect) or changing transparency while getting clo=
se to the sun (sun glare). So, instead of making it "real" 3D or faking the=
 effect with gamma control, wouldn't it be more feasible to connect the mov=
ing of several semi-transparent layers to the point of view?=0AIt's great t=
o see, how Pipmak progresses under the surface, so I hope that in the far o=
r near future this feature will be embedded and maybe my little brainstormi=
ng helps!=0A=0Abest regards=0ASimon John=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A      Jetzt Mails sc=
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