5/7/2023 0 Comments Flexify 2 panorama plugin![]() ![]() This software uses automatic pattern matching, remapping pixels and stitching onto a default spherical projection. I’m giving instructions here for Serif Panorama PlusX4 because I’m not familiar with others, but the process should be similar. Just select and delete the others preceding it. If you noticed you made a few captures where the data had not fully loaded, and you subsequently recaptured when all was well, you know that the last in any series of duplicates is the correct grab. The next step is to review the collection for duplicates. Within a few minutes, the picture taking is done. But precision is not required, you just want to make sure that there are no gaps in coverage. This systematic approach will help you keep your place better than making a series row by row, because when you look down, it is easier to move your angular position in steady increments. Once a column is done, move back to a downward view an eighth of a turn over, and repeat the process. Depending on the altitude of the terrain, this will require three or four screen grabs taken from low to high, at a minimum. The best coverage pattern I’ve found is to work around the compass in eight vertical columns, starting with a steep look straight down and progressively moving the nodal eye upward. If you look around with the nodal camera before starting the capture, the entire 360 degree scene will load into the Google Earth cache, and thus will load faster on the screen. I’ll tell you how to easily delete the premature captures. If you get fooled, just capture the same view again. It is important to pause long enough before each capture for all the imagery, terrain and buildings to fully load. Now, move the view through the nodal point camera in a coverage pattern that spans from looking steeply down to looking up just above the horizon, clicking the hot key for screen capture at each pause. Don’t worry about the stars, they will be extracted when the dark sky is extracted, and they may even help with the stitching. ![]() Then turn off the sky in Google Earth, in order to obtain a black background for the sky line. Use a 1:1 ratio for the terrain height, with no vertical exaggeration, and turn off all streets and places layers and close all search results you just want the terrain and aerial imagery without any labels. In Google Earth, make sure the 3D buildings layer is turned on. Set up Irfanview to screen capture at hot key command, designating a filename and a save folder. In optical terms, this is called the nodal point of the lens, and panning the view through the nodal point is essential to stitching a series of images into a seamless panorama, because there will be no lateral or vertical position shift between the images, and therefore, no parallax differences. By placing your cursor on that eye and click/dragging, you can look all around without changing camera position. That is the critical tool in this process. Notice the eye in the middle of the compass. Your Google Earth preferences should be set to show all navigation controls on screen. Precision navigation in Google Earth is an acquired talent. Move in close to that spot, and level off just above it. Now, open Google Earth and find the location where you want to make a horizon panorama. You will be typing in those adjustments in a new text file, starting with a copy of an existing file that best matches your view. The text file indicates various adjustments Starry Night will perform on your panorama so that it is positioned and sized correctly. You will be extracting the sky portion of your panorama to make it transparent. In your image editor the sample file will show a checkerboard pattern where the sky would be, indicating transparency in that region. You will be placing your own PSD and text file into the Horizon Panoramas folder under Sky Data. This sample panorama from Honolulu Hawaii courtesy of Samuel Roads You can find here a sample PSD and text file: I use Photoshop Elements.īefore you start, take a look at what you will be making.
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