[ptx] Re: Autopano-sift installation problems...

[Richard Tucker]

Wolfgang wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>your trick with deinstalling the 1.1.9 version of the mono framework and reinstalling the 1.1.8 version did work. Thanks for the tip. Even autopan-sift within huginOSX now seems to work......unfortunately,it only SEEMS to work. I don´t get any error messages but there are not enough control points (some pictures even have ZERO control points although I managed to create quite a few manually as there is a substantial overlap between the photos. Do you know what´s going wrong?
>Thanks again for your help
>Wolfgang

Glad you got it working.

Yes, that was my experience too. I found adjusting the "number of control points" option in Hugin didn't help very much either. My guess is that Hugin doesn't invoke autopano-sift with very appropriate arguments.

I had more success using Sift Helper. It generates a script which you run to generate a .pto file, which you can then load into Hugin. I got more control points this way... but they still have a tendency to be clumped together, and I got the best results by adding a few more myself. I expect it depends to some extent on what your images are like.

I hope this helps. Apart from the difficulties in getting it to work with autopano, I'm hugely impressed with HuginOSX, and I certainly won't go back to using Photoshop Elements to stitch things together.

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