Tour of Montpellier, France

VISIT TO FRENCH (if you like I can achieve the English translation)

I suggest you visit the city of Montpellier in France, this city is located in the south of France, it is a university town, near the Mediterranean Sea, the climate is good and life is very good also

The tour includes background music, to see it properly, you must start the tour by double clicking on "LANCER LA VISITE".

Attachments:

Visite_de_Montpellier_France_web.kmz (78.55 KB)

Visite de Montpellier France.kmz (3.84 MB)

Supurb tour, jolauje!

One of the best I've ever seen, and certainly the best use of the new 3D architecture. And a great use of music. Thanks for introducing me to this wonderful place.

I doubt if anyone has time to read your balloons during the tour, but you if you could make an English version, I, at least, would take time to read through it outside the tour mode.

ok, I'll do an English translation within days

Here is an English version translated from the French with Google Translate, and slightly corrected.

This version does not provide background music, because it is interactive, you need to press play to continue the visit, it is much easier to read the articles in such conditions.

Full version only.


Montpellier_France_Tour_en.kmz (3.84 MB)

Well done, jolauje!

I am equally impressed with this version. The pause feature of this tour is very functional. I looked at the KML code of the tour and saw that it was very different from the code created by the Record Tour tool in Google Earth. I'm not sure that it is a big improvement over simply clicking through a series of placemarks, but I'd like to know how to create such a tour. Can you provide information about where one can learn this technique?

I was pretty much able to understand your English, but my old eyes have difficulty reading your balloons. (I have to move my head close to the screen, and tilt my head back so I am seeing through the lower part of my variable focus lenses.) I found that the balloons were much easier for me to read if I set the font to size 4 bold. (I'll attach an example.)

I learned a lot about your remarkable city by reading the balloons, but I must confess that I enjoyed the musical version more. Thank you for your considerable effort to produce both!

This work is too good to be limited to the tiny audience it will receive on this forum. Ideally, there should be some way to make it available to visitors (and potential visitors) to Montpellier. I'm not sure how, but downloads from tourist internet sites, displays in hotel lobbies, and other places where there is an appetite to learn more about your city and its remarkable institutions exist, would be appropriate. If you can expand your audience, I would suggest you keep the wonderful musical tour as an over view, and divide the self-paced tour into several parts. Some people will have a greater interest in one kind of site, and some in others, but the main point is that the self-paced tour takes a bit too long. Maybe it's just me, but my attention became fatigued before I got to the end of the tour.

Attachments:

Opera Comedy.kmz (71.14 KB)

French:
Merci beaucoup, mais j'ai fait cette illustration de ma ville pour m'amuser, et bien sûr, je connais bien la ville et ses monuments et institutions.

Je dois avouer que les traductions de Google Translate sont très difficiles à corriger quand il s'agit de dates historiques et de personnes célèbres à expliquer, je comprends que tu n'aies pas tout compris.
Je suis plutôt nul en anglais, je ne suis pas allé longtemps à l'école
ET bizarrement, je suis très bon en français, et oui !!!

Pourquoi ai-je fait ceci ? (2)
1. Pour connaître un petit peu comment se servir du code de Google Earth (KML)
2. Étant programmeur sur d'autres sources, je désirais savoir ce qu'on pouvait faire avec Earth. >> En fait, pas grand chose, je suis très déçu.

La traduction, je l'ai faite pour toi, parce-que ton message m'a donné envie de le faire. (désolé pour la taille des caractères, mais franchement, la taille que j'ai mise, suffit à lire) sauf que toi, tu ne connais peut-être pas bien les caractères latin.
Je m'en excuse.

Je ne veux pas continuer à programmer pour Earth. c'est trop facile, le KML est du XML propriétaire. Rien de bien compliqué, il suffit de lire les aides sur le sujet.

Je suis très déçu des animations que j'ai vues (même celles dans Google Earth Tours), je trouve qu'il n'y a pas assez de recherche, montrer une position sur un carte est tellement simple que je n'ose même pas le faire. C'est nul.
C'est dommage, parce-que Earth est très intéressant pour beaucoup de sujets importants comme la déforestation, la place que prend l'homme sur la planète, les monuments ancestraux, etc... au passé comme pour le futur.

Si tu veux, je peux expliquer, dans quelques jours, comment faire des animations sympathiques très simplement, et, avec de la musique, ou des sons à certains moments.

Il est évident, qu'une animation ne se fabrique pas en 2 minutes.

J'aimerais, si c'est nécessaire, pouvoir ouvrir un sujet sur la programmation Google Earth (ça peut, peut-être, m'intéresser plus en détail) sur ce forum, si, effectivement, c'est LE forum adéquat.


Google Translate French > English:

Thank you very much, but I made this illustration in my town for fun, and of course, I well know the city and its monuments and institutions.

I must admit that translations of Google Translate are very difficult to correct when it comes to historical dates and famous people to explain, I understand that you did not have all inclusive.
I am rather null in English, I did not go far in school: D
And strangely, I am very good in French, and yes !!!

Why do I do this? (2)
1. To know a little how to use the code Google Earth (KML)
2. Being programmer on other sources, I wanted to know what could be done with Earth. >> Well, not much, I am very disappointed.

Translation, I did it for you, because your message-that made me want to do it. (sorry for the font size, but frankly, I have the size up, enough to read) except you, you may not be familiar with the Latin characters.
I apologize.

I do not want to continue programming for Earth. it's too easy, KML is XML owner. Nothing complicated, just read the aids on the subject.

I am very disappointed animations I've seen (even those in Google Earth Tours), I find that there is not enough research to show a position on a map is so simple that I do not even dare do it. It's lame.
It's a shame, because-Earth is very interesting for many important topics such as deforestation, the place that takes man on the planet, ancestral monuments, etc ... in the past as in the future.

If you want, I can explain in a few days, how friendly animations very simply, and with music, or sounds at times.

Obviously, an animation does not manufacture in 2 minutes.

I would, if necessary, to open a topic on the Google Earth program (it can, perhaps, interested in more detail) on this forum, if in fact it is THE correct forum.

Hi jolauje,

I want to thank you again for preparing the English version. I hope you didn't go to all that trouble just for me.

I'm sorry KML is not sufficiently challenging for you. As a former teacher with a long-time interest in educational technology, I too, have sometimes wished it were a little more like other programming languages, but being entirely self-taught I have never shared your opinion that it was too simple to be interesting. At any rate, I'm impressed with your results. They made me, a person who had barely heard of your city, very interested in it, and I think that would be true for others.

Other things about your tours which are not so much technical as aesthetic have impressed me. It is no small matter to select views and arrange those views in a pleasing order, and that you have done quite well. I wouldn't want you to go to a lot of trouble to explain the process of constructing tours. I think I pretty well understand how to make a tour with sound. What I would appreciate, if you know of one, is information on where I could find advice and instruction on making self-paced tours.

I mentioned the font size because it would not have occurred to me when I was young and sharp eyed. If there is not a lot of text in the balloon, and if the sentences are easy to read, and if I'm not trying to read Japanese, then I can get by with the default font size.  But even then, boosting the font size up a notch is always appreciated by me. 

Regards,
washi

French

Je vais expliquer brièvement comment j'ai réalisé cette animation.

Au départ, je ne connaissais pas du tout le principe des animations Google Earth, et, j'avais envie de présenter ma ville juste avec des liens à cliquer.
Mais, mais, ça ne me plaisait pas, je trouvais le principe très archaïque, et pas du tout adapté à notre temps.

Après un peu de réflexion, je me lance sans avoir consulté d'aide particulière.

Donc, simplement, j'ai récupéré les vues fixes des différents monuments, ce que j'avais auparavant.
Je suis allé dans le paramétrage de Earth et j'ai sélectionné un temps de pause de 8 secondes (c'est ce que l'on peut voir dans mon 1er KMZ)
et il fallait aussi cliquer sur l'affichage des info-bulles (balloons)

J'ai lancé l'enregistrement de la caméra et j'ai démarré ma visite, à la fin, j'ai visionné, j'ai trouvé que c'était assez bien,
J'ai intégré les textes trouvés sur Wikipedia français !!! >>> même si je connais ma ville, je ne connais pas vraiment son histoire...
j'ai eu envie d'aller plus loin, de faire quelque chose de différent, de plus évolué (la programmation).
J'ai enregistré en KML et j'ai ouvert le fichier avec Notepad++ et, surprise, c'est de l'XML, structure simple (ouvert/fermé).
J'ai modifié les affichages, les temps, les pauses, ça me plaisait bien, puis j'ai cherché dans l'aide pour avoir les commandes des fichiers sons.
J'ai cherché sur le site de Longzijun des morceaux (gratuits, libres de droits) qui pouvaient être bien pour l'animation, la durée des morceaux/type de musique a été difficile à trouver.
J'ai lié ces morceaux de musique avec Freemake Audio Converter en un seul fichier audio faisant le même temps que mon animation,
problème, quand on intègre un fichier sonore, on ne peut pas faire de pause parce-que l'audio s'arrête automatiquement (c'est normal).
J'ai également appris que le KMZ intègre automatiquement les fichiers ressources du projet (images et sons), et que Earth les extrait dans les dossiers temporaires avant de le visionner.

J'ai aussi fait plusieurs adaptations de programmation sans succès, il faut le dire aussi.

Salutations

Jim

PS. je travaille dans la publicité

Google Translate translation raw

I will briefly explain how I created this animation.

Initially, I did not know at all the principle of Google Earth animations, and I wanted to present my fair city with links to click.
But, but, that does not please me, I found the archaic principle, and not at all suited to our times.

After a little thought, I launched without consultation of special assistance.

So just, I got fixed views of various monuments, what I had before.
I went into the setting of Earth and I selected an exposure time of 8 seconds (this is what you can see in my first KMZ)
and it had also click the tooltips display (balloons)

I started recording of the camera and I started my visit, in the end, I watched, I thought it was pretty good,
I incorporated the texts found on Wikipedia French !!! >>> Even though I know my city, I do not really know its history ...
I wanted to go further, to do something different, more advanced (programming).
I recorded in KML and I opened the file with Notepad ++ and, surprise, it's XML, simple structure (open / closed).
I changed the displays, time, breaks, I liked it well, then I looked in the help for the controls sound files.
I searched on the site of Longzijun pieces (free, royalty free) that could be good for animation, the length pieces / type of music has been hard to find.
I linked these pieces of music with Freemake Audio Converter into a single audio file that is the same time as my animation,
problem, when you integrate a sound file, you can not pause it because the audio stops automatically (this is normal).
I also learned that the KMZ automatically integrates project resource files (images and sounds), and extracts the Earth in temporary files before viewing.

I also made several programming adaptations without success, it must be said too.

Greetings

Jim

PS. I work in publicity

FR: Est-ce que mes explications vous ont aidés ?

EN: Does my explanations have helped you?




FR: J'avais idée de faire une visite guidée des châteaux de France, est-ce que ça vous intéresse ?

EN: I had idea to do a tour of the castles of France, do you interested?

You talkin' to me?

Are you talking to me?

I suppose you are, because you and I are the only participants so far in this thread. If you are addressing everyone generally, then please disregard the following.

If it is just me, my answer to your first question is this: Your description in French is probably helpful to other Francophones. It does me no good. I understood the machine translation of it to English, largely because I have posted (as you apparently haven't discovered) numerous tours which contain sound. I think it might be less helpful than several other resources on the topic written in English.

My question to you was only in regard to inserting the pause in a recorded tour, but as I suggested before, I think merely clicking through the placemarks would be almost as effective, and involve much less work to prepare. At any rate, at my age I think it is unlikely that I will do either.

You dismissed my feedback about font size as insignificant, so I'm rather disinclined to proffer any more advice, but I will say that if you plan to quote from Wikipedia in a file on French castles, you should at least, whenever possible, spare your English readers the machine translation, and quote from English Wikipedia.

ok  washi