virtual tour and alternate panoramas

[beauchette]

Hi, I'm working on a project that allows you to virtually visit a place. Everything works great, photo sphere viewer and, of course, the virtual tour plugin makes it extremely easy to implement. I want to offer alternate panoramas, you could think of it as a night and day switch. I understand how you can load another panorama, but I don't want the user to lose the context of the current visit.

My first idea was to modify the virtual tour plugin to take another property for nodes (eg: panorama_alt) and then make a button plugin allowing to switch between panorama_alt and panorama.

I read the docs and I didn't find a way to accomplish this feature, and I have no problem implementing it, but, before starting this, can you confirm there is no other way to do it ?

[mistic100]

I don't see any easy way to that currently, a Virtual Tour node is tied to a single one panorama image.

[beauchette]

Thank you for your really fast answer ! then for my special use case, I'll just implement what I described in my first comment

I had another idea, though, which was something like :

• make a viewer with virtual tour with daylight panoramas.
• if the user clicks on a button, then I get the current node, and current yaw/tilt
• replace the viewer with virtual tour with night panoramas starting with the node/yaw/tilt I got before the change

That seems quicker but awfully messy

[mistic100]

Instead of replacing the viewer you can just call setNodes to replace all the nodes. It might even keep the current position.

[beauchette]

I'll definitely try that before trying anything else.

[beauchette]

So, basically, I made my own plugin which shows a button on the Navbar, this plugin button's onClick dispatch an event, which allows me to swap between my two array of nodes. Works perfectly, it doesn't keep the current node id, but it was trivial to get it from getCurrentNode et give it to setNodes. It really works seamlessly, and as bonus it keeps the current yaw/tilt. Thank you for your time