If you've just finished reading the Panoweaver review you'll know that utilising PTViewer Scripter is the next step you take in creating a Virtual Tour for your Website, using the Panorama Technologies suite of software.

Before starting the review, I would like to say a few words in favour of Virtual Tours. Over the last year or so I have been searching for a new home, nothing too flash, just something a little larger than the one I had. As a result of this I have spent enormous amounts of time scouring Real Estate Websites and taking virtual tours of houses and guess what! I found that in most cases I could tell just from the virtual tour whether I wanted to view that particular house or not. Virtual Tours saved me a lot of time and I find myself occasionally browsing real estate sites to see whats around. So don't discard virtual tours as just bells and whistles I predict they will be the way of the future as busy people look for time-saving ways to scout for houses, furniture, cars and even clothing. Erm, I'll just step down from the soap box now and get on with the review.

PTViewer Scripter is an easy-to-use virtual tour creating tool that will link the panoramas together and allow customizing of virtual tours.

PTViewer Scripter allows:

• Add hotspots to panoramas to make virtual tours easily;
• Set your own downloading waiting image, progress bar in viewer;
• Set your own navigating toolbar in viewer;
• Set pan, tilt, fov, rotating speed and many other parameters.

I know I was quite enthusiastic about how easy Panoweaver is to use but I'm equally as enthusiastic about PTViewer Scripter. Imagine a kitchen panorama image with doors leading to outside, bedrooms and the kitchen. Well I was able to create hot spots on those doors using my own graphic labels and roll over text and link to panoramas for those rooms in just a few minutes. I found the interface to be very very user friendly and my own mini Virtual Tour was complete in no time. Publishing to the Internet is just as easy as all the html files are created for you and step by step instructions on how to get your files onto the web are in place in this delightful software package.

There are two other products in the suite to assist you on your way to making truly great Virtual Tours. The first one is Batch Wizard and this tool allows you to stitch together multiple panoramas with the press of just one button. For instance, a Real Estate Salesperson has just taken two or three shots each of ten rooms in a house. Load the images into Batch Wizard and press automatic stitching and voila! the job is done. I must admit these days that Batch processing comes in very handy when you have loads to do and little time to do it in. The other product in the suite is Virtual Tour EXE. This tool allows you to link the panorama images together to produce a standalone executable virtual tour easily. Note: No Java Running Environment is necessary to view these virtual tours. You can customize the virtual tour to your own style, set your own information, use your own skin in the viewer etc. You can also generate *.EXE files and autorun files which will allow you to burn virtual tours on an autorun CD easily. And, virtual tours can be viewed in full screen mode.

Now that I've taken you through what each of the tools in the suite actually do I'm sure you will be as excited as I am about this great product. Add to this that the product is so easy to use and I guess I have to give it a 100% thumbs up! Panorama Technologies have come up with the goods. Thinking Virtual Tours then think Panoweaver, PT Viewer Scripter, Batch Wizard and Virtual Tour EXE.