ARDI Documentation - ardi360admin

Adding Hotspots

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Adding Hotspots Once you have finished capturing your footage, you'll need to open your photographs and mark where your walkways and assets are. You can do this with an inexpensive tool named Pano2VR from Garden Gnome Software. You can download a free version from . Note that the free version will water-mark your images - the paid version will not.

Capturing ARDI-360 Footage

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Capturing ARDI-360 Footage Capturing the photographs you will use in ARDI-360 doesn't require a lot of exotic hardware - there are a range of good cameras now available and you can even use your mobile phone. Two of our suggested methods are below.

Creating 360 Assets

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Creating 360 Assets Once you're done adding hotspots, it's time to create ARDI assets to hold these photographs. Normally, these assets will have the name of the P2VR scene (ie. 'Tank TK2-50 North' for the point just north of TK2-50). You can either place all of your 360 photograph assets in a single place in your location hierarchy (ie.

ARDI 360 Editors Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

ARDI 360 Editors Guide Creating ARDI 360 scenes requires a few steps and some simple planning. * Planning Your Route * Capturing ARDI-360 Footage * Adding Hotspots * Creating 360 Assets * Uploading Media Using the ARDI Video Mapper Optrix also have an early version of our Video Mapper software, that allows you to vastly improve the time it takes to put together a 360 environment based one one or more 360 video files.

Planning Your Route

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Planning Your Route Before you begin, you should plan where your photographs or videos will be taken. You should ideally work from maps, and decide where intersections occur - you will almost always want a scene (an ARDI-360 location) at each intersection where the user may want to change direction.

Uploading Media

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Uploading Media For each of the 360 assets you created, you'll need to upload your files. Each asset needs two files - first, the equirectangular image file, named 360.jpg. Secondly, the P2VR file. This can have any name, but must end with the Pano2VR or P2VR extension.

The 'Visible' Relationship

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

The 'Visible' Relationship When you upload a Pano2VR file to the ARDI server, it is processed by ARDI. Any connections your 360 photo has to other assets are extracted, and a new relationship is created between the photograph asset and the assets that appear