Exiftool

Blender settings

• When exporting a Blender scene, remember that your camera should be in the very position of the intended viewer within the virtual "room" or space.
• Camera setting should be Panoramic > Equirectangular
• Render setting should be generating a rendered image in a 2:1 ratio
• Save the image as a jpg.

Installing ExifTool on OS X

"ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information" Installation information: http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/install.html

• Download the ExifTool OS X Package from the ExifTool home page - http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
• Install as a normal OS X package. (Open the disk image, double-click on the install package, and follow the instructions.)

You can now run exiftool by typing "exiftool" in a Terminal window.

Open Terminal. Go to the directory that holds your image.

To cancel a process in Terminal press Template:KeypressTemplate:Keypress or Template:KeypressTemplate:Keypress

Requirements for creating Facebook 360 Images

• Photo should have 2:1 aspect ratio
• Maximum file dimensions of 6000 by 3000 px
• Exif XMP tag, "ProjectionType=equirectangular"

Tricks

It was found that setting the Make to "RICOH" and Model to "RICOH THETA S" will also create images that get 360 treatment in Facebook - once the image is in a 2:1 aspect ratio. This is because its a popular pano camera.

See also

• Introduction to Blender