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#SECOND LIFE CAMERA PRO#
#SECOND LIFE CAMERA SOFTWARE#

Make sure you freeze the clouds – you’ll be taking up to 26 images which will need to be stitched together, and moving clouds could make that a bit of a bugger to do.

Set your preferred windlight and daytime settings.

Be careful of where you select – too close to building or trees, etc., could have them dominating a part of the view.

Position yourself at the centre of the location you want to capture in a 360-degree image.

There are some basic steps to follow when preparing to take shots using the system: Illiastra provides comprehensive set of videos on producing your panoramic shots, stitching them together and uploading them to Facebook, which I highly recommend.įor the rest of this article, I’ll take you through producing a panoramic shot and then uploading it to VRchive and converting it to a 360-degree video for You Tube.

Once this is done, you can proceed to prepare them for 360-degree viewing on Facebook, VRchive, etc.

#SECOND LIFE CAMERA SOFTWARE#

Stitching them into a panoramic mosaic using a suitable software application.Capturing your in-world shots using the camera.Producing your static panoramic image is a 2-step process:

#SECOND LIFE CAMERA PRO#

The difference between the two cameras being that the “basic” model uses 8 images to create a 360-degree panorama, while the Pro version takes a total of 26 (including directly above and below you) to produce either a panoramic view using 24 images, or a spherical view using all 26 images. The system comprises two camera HUDs, “basic” and Pro, together with a photosphere for viewing captured images in-world. These can in turn be uploaded to Facebook or websites such as VRchive and YouTube, as scrollable, 360-degree views of a location.

This is a HUD-based system which can be used to produce set of images of an in-world scene which can be stitched together using suitable software to create a static 360-degree view. I received a generous gift from Illiastra Ascendent (NVZN, aka James Reichert in the physical world) over the weekend, who sent me the Illiastra Panoramic Camera (MP link) to try-out in Second Life. A static panoramic view of our home island produced using the Illiastra Panoramic Camera and the Hugin Software.