Hello Again
Hello everybody
For the first time in about 4 months I have logged in here, and also for the first time in about 9 months as i have been in the middle of a major project, I took a few VR Tours, whilst I was on our hols in Greece a few weeks back.
I have tried to take a sphere movie, with 2 rows of images and the polar caps. Everything goes fine in PT-Gui Pro 7 until i try and add the north pole to it.
These were taken freehand, with no tripod (as we went the day after the Glasgow airport attack, and i was told when i called the airport there was no chance of getting a tripod through security).
http://www.quicktimevirtualreality.com/temp/lavrio-3sphere-a.JPG
You can see there that apart from making my fiance look like a 3 foot tall 20 stone Umpa-Lumpa, it has smacked the north pole sky image in the centre of the picture and tried to blend it in, as it doesn't know what to do with it. So i have tried adding control points to staple in place, but that didn't want to work either.
Is there any thing i should be doing, to get PTGUI to recognize it as the pole cap?
I have the first row of images (the upper ones) and this at the end of them, then the second row and the south pole at the end of them.
This is my first ever attempt at a sphere pano, not bad for somebody who has been taken cylinder panos since 1998 (better late than never) :oD
Kindest regards
Ian
Re: Hello Again
There is a group http://groups.google.co.uk/group/ptgui but I think its really for bug reports rather than usage advice so not sure I'd ask there.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoToolsNG generally covers all panotools stuff and general pano topics. Often helpful advice.
http://www.panoguide.com/forums if you post your problem you may get some help too, especially if you catch john Houghtons attention who can normaly fix almost anything.
Personally I'd try dragging the image up in the panorama editor window into position. Or try using the image parmeters tab to manually position the image using pitch and yaw settings and such. Being mostly blue sky exact positioning may not matter much. Check you panorama is set as 360 by 180 and hasn't decided to make itself 360x170 or something. Remember if you added control points the new position will not show up in the editor window until you have optimised them I think.
But I'm not one of the informed users. Good luck.
Re: Hello Again
Hi Ian,
Another solution might be to convert it to a cube and take the Zenith shot and clone in the sky then convert back to spherical.
I do that in Cubic converter on occasion for tricky shots that wont auto stitch in Stitcher unlimited
Dennis M. Carbo
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Oh and that reminds me in the panorama editor window you can now do a numerical transform to slide your sphere around 90 degrees so the top is now facing you making it easier to fit the zenith image in. Then you move the entire thing back 90 degrees.
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Is there a PTGUI forum just for that software, as i really need to get this worked out?
Regards
Ian
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