Frontera 3D -- Tour the Space Habitat of The Highest Frontier - broken panoramic cubemap (pano2vr player)

[Pokechu22]

Describe the bug

The faces of the cube seem to not properly follow rotation of the cube.

The back faces are also grey instead of in color, but this may be an issue with how I saved the swf.

Expected behavior

A proper panorama should appear.

Content Location

https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/Frontera3D/Frontera.html / https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/Frontera3D/fincollege_out.swf should serve the content, but the swf file seems to be broken now (it was working 15 minutes ago though...). https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/Frontera3D/Midpoint.html and https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/Frontera3D/Gilead.html also exist. The swf files are not currently archived (I was in the process of archiving them when they broke).

I had devtools open when initially loading the page, and was able to save the response from it; however, I believe this truncated it from 1584034 bytes to 1048576 bytes. Still, this is better than nothing, and should be enough to reproduce the issue (assuming it is not the cause of the issue, at least...). fincollege_out.zip

curl --head results, for reference:

$ curl --head https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/Frontera3D/fincollege_out.swf
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 23:37:56 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash
Content-Length: 1584034
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:02:00 GMT
ETag: "4e4c5678-182ba2"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

$ curl --head https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/Frontera3D/fintown_out.swf
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 23:38:05 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash
Content-Length: 1549348
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:04:00 GMT
ETag: "4e4c56f0-17a424"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

$ curl --head https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/Frontera3D/finmid_out.swf
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 23:38:11 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash
Content-Length: 1918808
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:15:00 GMT
ETag: "4e4c4b74-1d4758"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

Affected platform

Online demo

Operating system

Windows 10

Browser

Firefox 132.0.2

Additional information

I suspect the grey faces on the cube are caused by the truncation mentioned earlier. I don't think that happened the first time I loaded the page (when the swf URL was working).

It also sounds like there is supposed to be a way of navigating between pages, but that doesn't seem to work currently.

Right-clicking says that it is powered by pano2vr player.

[adrian17]

Note: the SWF doesn't appear to use context3D, this looks like pure SWF10 transformations...?

But I'm not able to reproduce these without the site working :c

[Pokechu22]

Looks like another example of the same software is at https://web.archive.org/web/20100209222258/http://gardengnomesoftware.com/fs_vr.php?pic=bg_mozart_fs&t=4 (linked from https://web.archive.org/web/20100213095135/http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr_sample.php), with the following note:

This is a Flash 9/10 - cubic fullscreen panorama. If Flash 10 is installed it uses its better rendering engine. Tile size is 1500 pixels, 3x3 sub tiles, quality is 75, rendering quality 9,"controller new userdata" Skin.
The original image is 8000x4000.

I can reproduce the same issue there (and it doesn't have the grey faces, so those are almost certainly are from the truncated file).