VRMag's BF2 Panoramic Shots

[Laike]

VRMag (http://vrm.vrway.com/) released 15 panoramic shots of BF2, giving us a whole new way to view screenshots of the game. These beautiful panoramas are full 360 degree views of several maps, and can be viewed in both Java and Quicktime.

<center><a href="http://www.totalbf2.com/images.php?img=news/images/VR000006329.jpg"><img src="http://www.totalbf2.com/news/images/VR000006329small.jpg" alt="Battlefield 2 News Image"></a></center>
Check out the panoramas here, (http://www.vrway.com/vr_bf2/home_fullscreen.html) and the article in VRMag here. (http://vrm.vrway.com/issue21/BATTLEFIELD_2_A_CONFLICT_PANORAMA.html)

[Souljah]

wow sweet panorama im checking them out now.

[David Champion]

Impressive

[Dr.D]

Their great and all, but whats the point?

[`danny]

Very cool!

[King Cockery]

These pictures are imressive. But they should have been made before the game was released.

[jdogg88-Fed]

wow very Impressive

[Twiggs]

Needs more gunfire.

[vulcan]

Needs more gunfire.

...and ragdolls.

[Oap Deus]

ok, so hows it done? bf recorder?

[imported_G-Capo]

Such beauty,I wish I can play this game.

[imported_Entropy]

its pretty cool.

[flathead]

Cool looking... :O

[enfo]

just amazing

[GeMan]

in the demo.cmd file
there is a panorama stuff
any one figured how to do it........?????????????

[jimb0]

ok, so hows it done? bf recorder?

No. You just need to grab a bunch of screenshots and then stitch them together (via some specialized software) on a cylindrical or spherical map (this one is spherical). It's not very hard, it's the same process that's done with photos. I'd say that on real modding games (q3, d3, ut2k4, hl2) you could automate the process with some commands to get the screenshots at mathematically right positions, but I don't think this is BF2's case.

[ninjaturtle]

What a waste of time putting that together.

[frag_kILLA]

its even sweeter when the software can stictch them to a .mov file and you can scroll around 360*'s. i've done that quite a bit with my Canon camera. pretty slick.