Unfortunately, I have to agree with Joergen here. Hugues comment wasn't terribly constructive, but that doesn't change the reality that Hugin has some significant issues compared to its competitors. CPFind and Nona are both painfully slow, and both Enblend and Enfuse frequently crash for me on multiple computers, at least two of which have 12GB of ram. Hugin's HDR_Merge output can sometimes produce nice results, but in my experience that happens perhaps 2 out of every 5 times, and the other three border on unusable. Add in random crashes of Hugin itself, and occasional serious bugs (which do generally get fixed, but there are always new ones to take their place), and I have a really difficult time recommending Hugin for anyone who is planning to take a lot of panoramas, or someone who is planning to take a particularly complicated project. I've gotten some nice results out of Hugin, but it's always felt like I'm fighting with the software... and frankly the time and frustration are worth the price of the other packages out there, at least for me.
I've stitched dozens of panoramas in most of the major packages on the market. I keep Hugin installed because occasionally it's useful, but I don't think it's unfair to say that it is the least polished and most cantankerous stitching program out there. Of course, it's also the free-est stitching program out there, and in some sense you get what you pay for, in this case. I could live with the slowness, probably, if I had a high confidence that Hugin/Enblend/Enfuse/Nona/Hdr_merge would actually *work* without crashing on my project, and deliver acceptable results. Just for the heck of it, I pulled up one of my most recent panoramas in 2014.RC1 (Windows) to see if I could get it to stitch: "C:\Program: Interrupt/Exception caught (code = 0xc0000005, addr = 0x00007FF6DF9CC15F)" So there's that. It's clear, based on reviews, that I may be in the minority. Maybe the things I'm trying to do just aren't that common, but I've had *very* bad luck getting Hugin to consistently work on my projects. I've really wanted to like Hugin. But in the end, I haven't. On Saturday, May 10, 2014 11:13:13 AM UTC-4, Joergen Geerds wrote: > > While Hugues comment is indeed over the top, and in its actual content not > helpful to provide any help, there is fundamental truth in his sentiment. > The beginning hurdle for me as an end user is finding a downloadable > binary, since http://hugin.sourceforge.net is the official homepage, but > not maintained since last year. it takes some serious looking around to > find a recent binary. I do this process about every 6-9 months, and in the > past it was always the same result: i couldn't use it (and this could be > very much a PEBKAC). I finally found a mac 2014.0rc2 version, installed it, > launched it, and get confronted with wxwidget error messages... not a good > start again. then I load a bunch of small fisheye tiffs (no exif data), > load them, and get asked to enter exif data for each of the 18 tiffs, one > by one (my mind hovers again next to the "should I just delete it again and > come back in 6 months?")... being confronted with more wx errors, and no > way to assign the same lens parameters to all source images (at least not > in a obvious way), I am going to give up today, since no control points > could be found, and maybe try again tomorrow. as it stands right now, I > have never in my whole pano life managed to get a single panorama out of > hugin, and I really tried (please don't bash me as a pano beginner). I > could maybe try harder to get around the quirks hugin is throwing my may, > and every time I install a new hugin I really want to believe that this is > the one that finally works, it is not the easiest task for users like me. > > so while Hugues comment is wrong from a bug fixing perspective, there is > enough truth to his sentiment to not bash it like it was. > > On Monday, March 24, 2014 3:08:01 PM UTC-4, Cartola wrote: >> >> Surely. >> >> And the main wrong thing we can see is that instead of asking how to do >> and tell what and how he has done, so we could help, he has just made >> useless comments. Looks like a user that deserves the good and old RTFM >> answer. >> >> I have stitched hundreds of panoramas with Hugin, but surely other >> stitchers also work. Just let him buy his proffered one or maybe do some >> piracy crime. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Carlos E G Carvalho (Cartola) >> http://cartola.org/360 >> http://www.panoforum.com.br/ >> >> >> 2014-03-24 15:36 GMT-03:00 Bart van Andel <[email protected]>: >> >>> That's weird. I can stitch whatever I want with this same Hugin program >>> and the results usually come out pretty nicely. Must be me doing something >>> wrong? >>> >>> On Monday, March 24, 2014 6:08:34 PM UTC+1, Hugues D wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I just downloaded and installed Hugin. I then loaded 15 pictures I have >>>> stiched very easily with the free Microsoft ICE giving great results but >>>> some stiching errors. I thought that Hugin would be a better tool. >>>> Conclusion : Hugin is not even capable of finding two common points >>>> between >>>> 2 pictures in my set of 15. >>>> This is ridiculous and unusable. >>>> >>>> -- >>> A list of frequently asked questions is available at: >>> http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/0916798c-447e-41c9-9a41-3818dd68777e%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/0916798c-447e-41c9-9a41-3818dd68777e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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