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WWT Academic Development Kit

We have put out a couple of tools for people to convert their own data to WWT format. You can process pictures of individual objects in the sky using WWT StudyChopper, and low and medium resolution panoramas, planetary textures, and sky surveys using WWT SphereToaster. You will still have to put the files created on the internet yourself, but once you do that, they will be accessible using WTML files to other WWT users.

The tools can be found from the MSR Downloads page here. They are both installed with a single installation file.

Once you install the WWT Academic Development Kit, you can access it from your Start Menu :

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Extensive documentation is found in the equivalent of your folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Research\WWT-ADK\doc . Or you can just have a look at the manuals here: StudyChopper.pdf , SphereToaster.pdf .

Caveat: This is an alpha version.


Posted 02-05-2009 4:39 AM by dinos

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Kevin Jardine wrote re: WWT Academic Development Kit
on 03-22-2009 4:19 AM

I would love to use this software to create a version of my Milky Way Explorer:

galaxymap.org/.../127

for the WWT.

Sadly, as soon as I run the programs they terminate, with messages like:

PanoMaker has encountered a problem and needs to close.

I am running the latest .NET code as of today under XP Professional.

Any suggestions?

Kevin Jardine wrote re: WWT Academic Development Kit
on 03-22-2009 8:50 AM

An hour with WinDbg revealed that the problem was that strong name verification was failing.

So I ran

sn -Vr

on the executables and dlls and the code is now running.

Kevin Jardine wrote re: WWT Academic Development Kit
on 04-01-2009 4:07 AM

I have put up some new TOASTed surveys as described here:

galaxymap.org/.../139

Please tell me what you think!

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