Cubic QTVR Panoramas with MojoWorld Transporter

Cubic QTVR renders create a whole new way to view areas of MojoWorld planets. The free Transporter program can render QTVRs up to 512 pixels on a side, though it may not be immediatly obvious how to make it do so. The following steps describe the process fully.

NOTE! When installing QuickTime 5, be sure to do the Recommended install and not just the Minimal install. The Minimal install is not sufficient for creating QTVRs with MojoWorld.

In The Transporter

  1. This is probably the hardest step - find a place on a planet of which you'd like to render a QTVR. Note that the camera view you choose will have little to do with the opening view of the QTVR. When a QTVR is rendered, the camera is automatically levelled and is oriented relative to the planet, so it is not currently possible to choose which way the camera faces when the QTVR opens in either the Free Transporter or the Full MojoWorld Generator 1.0, 1.02 or 1.1 release versions.

  2. Once a location has been selected, choose "Process Later" off of the Render Settings menu [to the right of the Render Now Camera icon]. This will automatically open the Uplink Queue panel with the new job selected.

In The Uplink Queue

The following screen shot of the Transporter's Uplink Queue tab shows the four key areas corresponding to the remaining steps below.

  1. In the Uplink Queue panel, check the checkbox labelled QTVR [item A in the screenshot]. This will automatically set the size to 512. (Only the first size parameter matters for a QTVR.) This is the maximum size QTVR that the free Transporter program can render. MojoWorld Generator can render larger resolution QTVRs.

  2. Select a render quality and optionally set or unset the shadows checkbox [item B in the screenshot].

  3. Use the "save to disk" icon [item C] to select a destination folder and filename for the resulting QTVR. The file created will end in .mov and it must render six frames to create the QTVR. However, you do not need to specify any special frame count or duration in the Uplink Queue panel.

  4. Click the Start button [item D] to process the Uplink Queue.
That's it! When the Render Queue is done, you'll have your very own QTVR panoramic movie of a place in Parametric Hyperspace.

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