panoramic images to view on google photos

[Rik]

Anyone know how to tell google photos that a render done in octane should be an interactive panoramic like you can take on a smartphone?

Don't need VR, stereo etc. Just want to be able to pan around.

Looked for the process in the octane docs but couldn't find anything.

[paride4331]

Hi Rik,
you would to add metadata into your render image using a photeditor.
Regards
Paride

[Rik]

Thanks.

After more digging, this lot tells you how it's done.

I used spherical camera and set fov to 360 and fov y to 180.

Hey Paride, get this lot in the manual please.

Reckon it might be useful as google photos is so widespread now. And free.

https://www.techjunkie.com/google-photos-panorama/  

https://www.thexifer.net/#xmp-gpano-tags  

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=9695.0  

exiftool -ProjectionType=equirectangular -UsePanoramaViewer=True '-CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels<$ImageWidth' '-CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels<$ImageHeight' '-FullPanoWidthPixels<$ImageWidth' '-FullPanoHeightPixels<$ImageHeight' -CroppedAreaLeftPixels=0 -CroppedAreaTopPixels=0 full_spherical_panorama.jpg  

[paride4331]

Hi Rik,
This can be useful.
Thanks
Paride