ORIGINAL: MSelig
ORIGINAL: brazz
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Well, I had the same problem as you with the result being a white world, although I tried to save my images down with 24-bit colour depth.
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If you want to use the tga's (instead of the dds files), then save the tga's uncompressed. Usually ... in the options/preferences area of your photo editor there will be a setting to turn off compression when saving tga's.
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The illusion you're getting w/ the plane not looking right on the ground is indeed due to the horizon being in the wrong place (too high or too low) in your image. It's not a function of your camera --- a spherical panorama is a spherical panorama. So it is a ground elevation/horizon issue.
The pano image codes usually have a way to set the horizon. BTW - AutoStitch is a nice code for painlessly getting panos, but I don't know if it allows the user to tweak the horizon.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
Michael
Hi Michael
Yes, my problem was indeed due to the horizon being too HIGH in my first pano. I lowered it to the correct position and the perspective seems spot on now (I took the Funtana 90 and parked it where there was a real one parked two weeks ago - looked perfectly sized). I also placed the sun in the correct position. Now the aircraft shadows match the scenery shadows. Lovely!
I have some problems with the picture quality of my sky (not enough cloud cover on the day to get a good, stitchable sky pano), so I'm borrowing one of FS One's nice sky panos.
Thanks for the help!
Regards