Newstream
03-15-2006, 09:41 PM
Hi !
I recently took advantage of the MAXON-RealViz offer and purchased Stitcher 5.1 at a discount. It works great when creating QTVR cubical or spherical panoramas using rendered output from C4D.
However, one of the most interesting features in Stitcher is its ability to automatically flat-stitch images together at the single click of a button which is a massive time saver when considering doing it the "old fashioned way" in PhotoShop. In fact, it couldn't be more simple. The only prerequisite is that each image (or tile) be of the exact same size and share a slight overlap to its neighbouring tile (on each of its sides)
Stitcher needs this tiny overlap to figure out which tiles fit where.
To test that it actually worked, I sliced up a large render into equal overlapping tiles and hit the "AutoStitch" button. Bang! done in a second!! "Bye bye stitching in PhotoShop" I thought to myself...
Unfortunately, it doesn't work with the 9 & 25 tile camera found in the object library because the Xpresso slices the tiles cleanly without any overlap whatsoever, making it impossible for Stitcher to assemble the image. I've been fiddeling with the Xpresso in the 25-tile cam in order to force it to create a slight 2-5% overlap between tiles but failed to get it to work.:banghead:
Does anyone know what setting needs to changed in the Xpresso to get the tiles to overlap slightly? For those of you who regularly use 25 tile cam for splitting large renders over the network and want to save yourselves a ton of post-work this will be like Christmas when it works.
:beer:
Any input greatly appreciated.
Cheers / Alex
I recently took advantage of the MAXON-RealViz offer and purchased Stitcher 5.1 at a discount. It works great when creating QTVR cubical or spherical panoramas using rendered output from C4D.
However, one of the most interesting features in Stitcher is its ability to automatically flat-stitch images together at the single click of a button which is a massive time saver when considering doing it the "old fashioned way" in PhotoShop. In fact, it couldn't be more simple. The only prerequisite is that each image (or tile) be of the exact same size and share a slight overlap to its neighbouring tile (on each of its sides)
Stitcher needs this tiny overlap to figure out which tiles fit where.
To test that it actually worked, I sliced up a large render into equal overlapping tiles and hit the "AutoStitch" button. Bang! done in a second!! "Bye bye stitching in PhotoShop" I thought to myself...
Unfortunately, it doesn't work with the 9 & 25 tile camera found in the object library because the Xpresso slices the tiles cleanly without any overlap whatsoever, making it impossible for Stitcher to assemble the image. I've been fiddeling with the Xpresso in the 25-tile cam in order to force it to create a slight 2-5% overlap between tiles but failed to get it to work.:banghead:
Does anyone know what setting needs to changed in the Xpresso to get the tiles to overlap slightly? For those of you who regularly use 25 tile cam for splitting large renders over the network and want to save yourselves a ton of post-work this will be like Christmas when it works.
:beer:
Any input greatly appreciated.
Cheers / Alex