I haven’t spent any time looking at the compass in Panini. However, I can tell you that when posting your panoramas on 360 cities, their GUI includes setting your preferred default orientation as well as the true directional orientation of the image. That way, users see the best part of your image from the start and will be able to tell which way is North while they look around.

Great tutorial :-)

I have a question about the compass feature you can see in Panini. I assume this is a feature of Panini, but how does it know where in your pano 0 degrees is?! Does it assume that the edge of the pano image is 0 degrees? If it does assume that, how did you create the pano so that the edge was at 0 degrees?

Thanks,

Mark.

Thank you for troubleshooting that for me. I wonder if that will still be necessary for some running the new version. It wasn’t for me (64-bit 11.10). Thanks again, and I’m glad you got it working.

i solved the issue
File “/usr/local/greeenlog/main.pyw”, line 62, in __init__
self.xss = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(‘libXss.so.1′)

came from last ubuntu distrib 11.10 (oneiric), a lot of libraries have been removed, so to have software running well you have to do that :
sudo apt-get install libxss1:i386

and it works :)

bdm

Sorry for the late response. The panoramic head holds the camera in such a way as to ensure the tripod is not in the shot when aiming horizontally.

The aperture and focus on the Samyang 8 mm f/3,5 Aspherical IF MC Fish-eye is set manually with the lens.

I’m not sure when I changed the main.pyw code, but I now have libXss.so.6 instead of libXss.so.1. Try downloading the new version (0.6.2). And thanks for the tip to resolve the theme issue. Those warnings were annoying.

I’ve had a lot of problems trying to get this application to work with various keyboards. No promises, but try running this script I created just to help troubleshoot keyboard driver problems. It’s keylog.py. It’ll just try to log keystrokes to a file on your Desktop. Use Ctrl+c to quit. Nothing shady about it. I have posted more detailed instructions above. Let me know if you have any luck or what errors you got.

I just updated Greeenlog, and the new version (0.6.2) should work for you now. I didn’t realize some base installs of Ubuntu don’t have the DISPLAY environmental variable set.

Sorry, that feature is too much work for me. You can try using rsync and crontab as I suggested for Christina (above). That might work for you (untested).