Let me admonish that I have the same (or similar) panohead, and there
are still variables at play as you're rotating. For instance, the
accuracy of the detent ring might not be exactly space-grade, the
tripod might move a bit, you might lean on the camera in certain
frames forcing the support to move a little, and so on. Therefore, I
don't think you want to create fake control points, but rather allow
each image to be aligned using real control points.

I assume what Bruno means is to take a .pto file, edit it to point to
the new images, and load that in Hugin. This is fine if you want to
pursue the fake control point path.

What I do is use a Perl script that takes the right number of input
files and puts them where they should be (I do two rows of pictures at
45 or 60 degree separation). This is useful to make sure I have those
positions right using the preview. The real purpose of the script is
to restrict SIFT to only stitching images that are adjacent, so I call
SIFT a bunch of times to eventually connect everything. I think this
saves time w.r.t. compute cycles, but also it saves time trying to
find false control points later.

I've posted the latest source code for my script in the files section,
look for autosphere.pl.ver3 (note that I'm also doing exposure
bracketing, so the script would have to be modified if you're not
doing that. Feel free to send me the modifications so I can work them
into the source)

Accomplishing this in Hugin might some day become a feature, but I
think there would have to be a rather-involved GUI that allows you to
load pictures and make a connection graph similar to the file in the
files section called "autosphere.pto.jpg", created by 'ptograph'. I
think that the Gigapan software does something like this, where you
form sort of a mosiac, and it connects an image to each of its eight
neighbors. Then, you wouldn't want to draw that graph every time, so
you'd have to have the ability to load/save a graph template.

I'd love to see this feature added.

Ryan

On Jul 31, 3:05 am, tennevin yves <[email protected]> wrote:
> With the recent versions of hugin, we can manually align non linked images.
> I just bought a nodal ninja 3 with a rotator a few days ago, so each of
> my images is aligned with a given angle (here 36°).
> I can manually align the images, by learning the multiple of <insert
> value> (36°), but if I want to rotate the panorama, I can't since images
> are not 'linked' or 'glued' together.
> Could there be a way to:
> - mass align image manually? ( + or -36 72 108 or any other multiple of
> a given angle)
> - create fake control point with the fast preview window, so the
> adjacent images become glued together.
> So the resulting panorama can be shifted in the hugin fast preview.
>
> esby / Y. Tennevin
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