doctorspaceman
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8 years ago Tours in Web Client
- Learning WWT
- Interactive Tours - It describes how to play a tour, pause in the desktop client. The web tour player has as different pause mechanism. This would be confusing.
- Using the Observing Time pane - Again, this describes how to do this in the desktop client and is confusing to see it in the web client.
- Making a constellation figure - again, the instructions are for the desktop client.
- Using the Image Crossfade - Could be done better.
- Nebula
- Seeing the Invisible - Seems to be ok. It has audio on 4-5 master slides that that all works for audio if you just let it play.
- W5 star forming region - Seems to be ok. There is a separate music track that doesn't playback, only hear the narration.
- The Ring Nebula - Audio problems: Per slide audio, some WMAs.
- Eagle Nebula - Seems to be ok. There is a separate music track that doesn't playback, only hear the narration.
- Beautiful Nebulas - Ok. Note, there is no audio.
- Galaxies
- Universal Beauty - Ok. Music only.
- Seven top - Ok. Narration and music in one mp3.
- Impact with M31 - Ok. Narration and music in one mp3.
- Interesting Objects - Ok. Music only.
- Surveys
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - Sound is ok. The constellation names are way too big because of scaling. See issue #62 on wwt-web-client.
- Gamma-ray Sources - It looks ok music bed is WMA format, so doesn't play in the web tour player.
- Planets
- Galileo's New Order - Sounds is in WMA. Links don't work. REMOVE from web client. Without WebGL planets look bad.
- Apollo Missions 12 to 14 (Part 2 of 3) - Audio (music only) in in WMA.
- Earth @ Night - Ok. It would be better with WebGL.
- Pluto - Scaling of constellation lines in SolarSystem mode kills the tour. It would be better with WebGL. Text animation is weird (line wraps change as it scales).
- LRO - Music in in WMA.
- Mars Landers - Ok. Music only.
- Adios Phoenix - Constellation name scaling kills tour. REMOVE from web client.
- LROC - Ok. But sound (music-only) is in WMA and not showing up.
- First Pictures of ExtraSolar Planets - Ok. No audio in tour.
- Venus Surface - Slides audio voiceover are WMA so they don't show up.
- Apollo (Dinoj) - Text animation is weird (line wraps change as it scales). But it works ok.
- Opportunity on Mars - No audio as both files are WMA.
- Using the Image Crossfade - This is a duplicate of the same tour in Learning WWT. It should be removed here.
- Black Holes
- The First Black Holes. Ok. The tour has no audio.
- Supernovae
- V838 - Light Echo - Ok. Music-only.
- Star Clusters
- Naked-eye open star clusters - Ok.
- Ancient Eye Test. Ok. Tour has no audio.
- Kiosk
- Galileo's New Order (Issues, see same Tour under Planets)
- W5 star forming region (Ok, see same Tour under Nebulae)
- Welcome to WWT - Music bed is in WMA and slides are individual MP3.
- The Ring Nebula - (Issues, see same tour under Nebulae)
- Eagle Nebula - (Seems to be ok. There is a separate music track that doesn't playback, only hear the narration, see same Tour under Nebulae).
- Earth @ Night - (Ok. See same Tour under Planets).
- LRO - (Issue of music in in WMA, see same Tour under Planets).
- Mars Landers - (Ok. See same Tour under Planets)
- First Pictures of ExtraSolar Planets - (Ok. See same tour under Planets).
- Apollo (Dinoj) - (Mostly ok, see same Tour under Planets)
- Opportunity on Mars - (Issue of No audio as both files are WMA, see same Tour under Planets).
- Mars
- Mars Landers - (Ok. See same Tour under Planets)
- Opportunity on Mars - (Issue of No audio as both files are WMA, see same Tour under Planets).
- Other
- Galileo's New Order (Issues, see same Tour under Planets)
- Anglo-Australian Observatory (really good)
- Over the Rainbow - Ok. But music bed is in WMA and separate so doesn't show up.
- Earth @ Night - (Ok. See same Tour under Planets).
- Space Elevator - This uses 3D Milky Way. We can't use this. REMOVE from web client.
- Chinese Valentine - Ok.
- Ancient Eye Test. (Ok. See same Tour under Star Clusters)
- New Tours
- Seeing the Invisible - (Seems to be ok. See same Tour under Nebula)
- Life on Mars - Mars doesn't show up at all. If we can’t get this figured out we should remove it. If we do get it working, we should copy this to Mars
- The Ages of Mars - Mars doesn't show up at all. If we can’t get this figured out we should remove it. If we do get it working, we should copy this to Mars.
- Surface Features on Mars - Mars doesn't show up at all. If we can’t get this figured out we should remove it. If we do get it working, we should copy this to Mars.
- Avian Flu. Works ok except the music bed is in WMA and thus doesn't show up. Also, would benefit from WebGL.
- Earth
- Avian Flu. (Some issues, but sort of ok. See same tour in New Tours)
- Earth @ Night - (Ok. See same Tour under Planets).
- WWT Ambassadors
- Seeing the Invisible - (Seems to be ok. See same Tour under Nebula)
- Galileo's New Order (Issues, see same Tour under Planets)
- Scales_tour - Issues, must be using some WebGL for Solar System and it isn't working. Should be removed.
- W5 star forming region (Ok, see same Tour under Nebulae)
- Our Lonely Sun - Issues, must be using some WebGL for Solar System and it isn't working. Should be removed
- Quick Tour of WWT - Issues, must be using some WebGL for Solar System and it isn't working. Should be removed
- Galileo's New Order (Issues, see same Tour under Planets). Shouldn't be at the root directory.
From my testing the issues fall into the categories:
- Audio files are not in MP3 - 80% (fixable per tour with some effort)
- Constellation scaling - 7% (fixable easily)
- Don't work without WebGL - 4% (hard, should remove them)
- Work without WebGL but tessellated spheres don't look good - 8% (hard, but should keep them).
- Linked slides - (these don't work, not sure how hard it will be to fix).
Many don't play correctly in the web client. Either try to find out why and correct or remove them from the tours that are shown in the web client.