On 29 March 2010 16:27, Darko Makreshanski <dmakreshan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm actually still not sure what is the general opinion about this feature, > since apart from James, no one else has commented on it.
Some thoughts from me, though there are more ideas already in this thread than can be implemented in one project: Fancy effects are a good thing, the more fun Hugin is to use the better. So I really like the idea of animating the transitions between projections. Another trick that would help comprehension would be to animate the transition to layout mode, though this would be harder to implement. Overlaying a standard latitude/longitude grid over the preview would also help comprehension, I would show this with mouse-over in the Projection mode and during animated transitions (we need less buttons and options in Hugin not more). I'm a bit confused about the overview and zoom suggestions, I think they are orthogonal ideas. I like the idea of a view of a globe showing the entire sphere around the camera, however this would need to show the following information: * A grid that matched the latitude/longitude grid used elsewhere. * The area with coverage by photos. * The outline of the current panorama canvas rectangle. * The outline of the current crop rectangle. With all this info, I think remapping the photos is superfluous and would confuse the clarity of the feature as a diagram. Also if it was a simple line drawing it could be overlaid onto the panorama in Projection and Drag mode (again using mouse-over for visibility). I'm not sure what the value of zooming is, it won't help users see the quality of alignment - As Hugin simply draws all photos on top of each other, the actual seam placement is done by enblend during stitching. What would be useful would be a standard-ish immersive panorama viewer, where panning around didn't change the panorama itself and where the wheel mouse zoomed in and out just like QuickTimeVR. This would be another tab in the preview. You have identified that rotating groups in Drag mode is a bit strange when the group is off-centre, the rotation point could be the 'centre of gravity' of the group rather than the centre of the panorama. The current Drag mode where yaw and pitch are changed actually makes no sense when there are any XYZ mosaic camera transformations in the project - As the optimiser will simply put the panorama back where it was. This doesn't need to be user configurable: when there are XYZ parameters in the project, Drag mode should switch to an XY transformation instead of a rotation. Note that we still have some unresolved issues with the fast preview: Layout mode currently doesn't know about XYZ mosaic parameters, as a result it draws the photos in crazy positions. The 'old' preview still isn't integrated, if the remaining functionality can't be reproduced with OpenGL then the 'old' preview needs to be moved to another tab in the fast preview at some point. We have a nice distinction between 'modes' that are switched by changing tabs and 'actions' that are widgets within those tabs, but there is a Panorama tab which is a mixture of tools that don't fit anywhere else, e.g. the 'show points' mode could be another tab, but doesn't have enough functionality to justify it (It would be nice to somehow integrate the floating Control Points table with 'show points'). -- Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
