Flash Wall Clock Plugin opofclock.swf

Officine Panottiche + nuovostudiofactory

Description

It's a simple analog wall clock, it is to substitute the wands of real wall clocks in the room, giving a more live effect.

The wall clock hotspot plugin is provided to you free of charge, but it is "citationware". If you publish it online, put a small credit and link to Officine Panottiche or nuovostudiofactory and, if you use it somewhere strange, if you like it, if you have suggestions, drop us a mail. We developed this small, simple gadget with the task to amuse the most aware among users.

It was designed to disguise in the image and act as an easter egg. You imagine clocks to work and display hour, but you don't get the thing till the moment you really realize in a still they shouldn't. And ok, ok, I'll confess. I am a wall clock collector.

Usage / Adding it

First of all you are supposed to remove the real wands from clocks that are present in the picture. Do it carefully, with your favorite software, without alteration to numbers and glass reflections. In most cases you can do it in the equirectangular picture, without having to extract the view.

To add the flash clock in the right place as an hotspot, you need to know how to use krpano editor plugin. You should first point the wallclock hotspot url to '_clock.swf'. It does have a grey circle background that helps you to position it.
Use the editor plugin to place the clock in the right position inside the empty clock in your picture, the grey circle is tightly covering the hands movement.
Then copy and paste back the values of position and distortion in your XML.
Revert the url to 'clock.swf' and adjust the alpha value to have the naked hands in place in the most realistic way.
You will get the .swf for two versions, wands with tail, like the one down here, and without it.

Enjoy!
Luca Vascon.

Sorry, no html5 for the moment, but our friend Sudarchikov Andrey posted an elegant and beautiful solution here not to let the ipads and iphones with empty clocks!

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krpano Forum Discussion Thread

Clock Hotspots Thread

Syntax / XML Usage Example

<hotspot name="wallclock"
         url="clock.swf"
         keep="true"
         ath="96"
         atv="-7.1"
         distorted="true"
         enabled="false"
         rx="0"
         ry="0"
         rz="-0.35"
         alpha="0.8"
         width="50"
         height="50"
         scale="0.92"
         />

Example