Files saved in PV "Best"   Original     After VTM compression

bmarina                            358kb             64kb    82%
dam                                 248kb             57kb     77%
holiday park                      274kb             44kb    83%

This is not a good thing..(05Apr 11:00hrs CDT) MGI Tech support recommend that during publishing in the Zoom Viewer Dimensions box that you deselect 'Size all photos to fit" option.  Then when you are finished publishing.. your images will remain unchanged. 

2.  VTM Now does appear to handle partial panoramas. At the marina suggest just clicking on the LEFT yellow button.  That will take you to the Benbrook Dam.  You will notice this the partial pano is now working properly.  Now Click on the RIGHT button and go back to the Benbrook Marina (full 360).  All the images at this point exhibit severe flashing (full viewer image redraws or refreshes) and maintain the partial pan's left and right limits of the partial pan even though this Marina image a full 360 panorama. 

3.  VTM .jpgs Netscape Versions 6.0/6.01 was tested and they do not display the VTM series. MGI says that Applets are now viewable in Netscape Navigator 4.07 – Communicator 4.71 to 4.76. (See note about 4.72 below) We have not tested yet  4.5 or 4.7 because we do that them installed on our machine.  

4. VTM consistantly looses and then displays part time non functional hotspots (18x18 pixel transparent dotyelo.gif)  Also a viewable TOOL tip were placed on each hotspot..  they now  viewable.  Hotspots are not stable as the move and overlay each other (see benbrook dam.jpg) even though they initially we spaced over 2" apart.

5. 20July2001 UPDATE NS6.0x now FIXED.  David Almond discovered on  that VTM apparently miscodes the xml code by placing \ slashes instead of / in the html page as well as in the .xml files.  Also it was learned that it helps if you hard code the url FIRST file to be called to start the tour.  For example:

<applet
archive=vtjpeg.jar
code=vtjpeg.class
width=283
height=216>
<param name="xmlfile" value="XML/bmarina.xml">
</applet>
 

To read:

"http://www.360texas.com/virtualtour/texas/stockyard/
                                                             XML/bmarina.xml"

Then use NOTEPAD to change in each .xml file all the path "\" to be "/" .  <?xml version="1.0"?>
<VirtualTourLocation>
<ImageNavigator>
<ImageFile>PHOTOS/1.jpg</ImageFile>
<ViewerType>Pano</ViewerType>
<panotype>SPHERE</panotype>
<pitchRange> -1.554 1.554</pitchRange>
<vFov> -1.554 1.554</vFov>
<initialView>1.3086 118.288 84.3166</initialView>
<Autospin>-50</Autospin>
<audioFile>AUDIO/sound.au</audioFile>
</ImageNavigator>

<Hotspot>
<XMLSource>XML/2.xml</XMLSource>
<Position>0.496 0.503 0.5081 0.5273</Position>
<entryPointPano>12.4949 271.672 78.9851</entryPointPano>
<hotspotImage>CUSTOMGRAPHICS/dotyelo.gif</hotspotImage>
<Tip>Visit the Live Stock Exchange</Tip>
</Hotspot>

</VirtualTourLocation>

These changes were tested with IE5.01, and NS6.01 and the tour now works.

I did ask a friend  to test the tour with NS4.72.  And the tour continues to fail.

Text shown here that concern an August release vtjpeg.jar 62kb was cancelled.