On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 18:34, johnfine2017 wrote: > > I want to make a bunch of changes to the control point dialog.
> 1) Max resolution. 200% really isn't enough for me to place control points > easily. I don't know what puts me or my photos or my large high res displays > outside the usual range, but adding 400% and 800% choices is a trivial code > change that will make the program easier for me to use. This might be useful, though the arrow keys do shift the control points a tenth of a pixel at a time which is usually accurate enough, note also that the fine-tune function also moves control-points to sub-pixel accuracy. > 2) Losing the magnifier. It always goes away at 200%, even though it > magnifies enough to be helpful at 200% and can be made to usefully magnify > even more. I found/understand the code that removes it for 200%. It also > sometimes gets a timer and goes away by timer. I found but don't understand > that code. I don't understand the intent of it going away by timer, nor the > actual behavior (as a user, I can't predict which actions do or don't make > the magnifier go away on a timer). I'm slow. I never want a timer taking > the magnifier away. I do want to be able to actively get rid of the > magnifier, see item 3. I never quite understood what made the magnifier come and go, so anything you can do to make this more predictable. Other annoyances with the Control Point tab: When zoomed-in, if I go to drag a control point that is not in the centre of the viewport then the view jumps to centre the viewport on this location - but my mouse is still in the corner of the viewport - placing the control point in a location nowhere near the original location. The workaround is to first click on the control point to centre it before trying to drag it, but this isn't obvious. When the Hugin Control Points tab was created the most popular panorama viewer was QuickTimeVR, this has a navigation system where you click-dragged on the screen and the view panned in this direction while you kept the mouse button down, so it made some kind of sense to pan around the Control Points tab in the same way. But these days every application uses middle-mouse drag to move the image as if you had grabbed it and placed it in the new position - maybe it is time Hugin did the same. The Mask tab can show the location of include masks in other images as an overlay on the current image. In the Control Points tab it would be nice to do something similar and show the outline of the right image on the left image and vice-versa, maybe by greying-out areas of the images that don't overlap. This would be useful because ultimately the stitcher places a seam down the middle of this overlap and control points near the seam are more important for alignment than those at the edge. > 3) More keyboard control. I don't have the dexterity to do as much with the > mouse in that dialog as I assume others do. I have a lot of accidents, such > as create a point when I intended to move one, then try to delete the new > one, randomly deleting a distant one instead, then they renumber (see item 5) > and I'm totally lost. Using the keyboard to move a point, I can never > predict nor control which of the two will move (see item 4). I want keys to > control which side is selected. Code exists that given a user provided > position for one side of a control point will try to find the other side. I > don't yet know where that code is, but I want to define a key to activate it > (user places or moves a point then presses the key to switch sides, then the > key to auto place the corresponding point). > 4) Visible indicator of which side is selected. No clue what it should look > like nor how to code it. Suggestions appreciated, but I'll figure it out > myself if necessary. This would be useful. > 5) Global stable numbering of points (as an option if this gets shared with > others). I'm sick of losing track as points renumber. I want a gap left > when I delete a point, that may be reused for a new point but won't be > reassigned to a different point. This might be difficult given the underlying data structure, but I don't know for sure. > I want the ability to place a control point on more than two images in > multi-way overlap. So I should be able to switch the active list of points > for a pair of images from their intersection to their union (and have some > visible indicator of left vs. right vs. both) then select a point that is in > just one of the two sides and right click selection and/or key to have the > software guess where it goes in the other side. (I have enhancement ideas > elsewhere that depend on points identified this way, but even without those > enhancements, this would be a convenience feature for me). Advanced version > of this would have the option to use the most recent optimize results to > exclude point that are outside the geometry of the other side. I can see how this might be useful, and it could work with the current control point system. Note that the pano13 library doesn't support control points that match more than two images (at the moment). > I don't yet have a correct build of hugin either on Windows (mingw64) or on > Linux. I struggled with both and never got cmake to believe the given > location of dependencies either for hugin itself or for dependencies of > dependencies when building those. I got past that in Linux with modest > kludging and in Windows with massive kludging. I'll start a different thread > on any of that if help is available. Current state on both systems: Most of > hugin works including the whole control point dialog and the ability to save > the project. But no way to make it stitch. On both systems I also have a > binary install of hugin in a different place that can stitch (from the > project saved from the version I built). So I can test/use control point > changes without correcting build issues. But I'd like to fix the build > issues. Hugin builds on most Linux systems using standard libraries that are provided by the distribution, i.e. if you download the right -dev packages using apt or dnf or whatever, building Hugin is incredibly simple. What problems are you having (maybe start a new thread)? -- Bruno -- 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/CAJV99Zg4nLRea-K6u-hgcE8MqARNczOmjgbZsUwM0deuHP93PQ%40mail.gmail.com.
