Looking for a tutorial on pto files

[Brandon]

Messing around with the nona and the command line I have acquired an interest in learning more about what is inside a pto file. I have opened them with text editors and I have figured out most of it. http://archive.bigben.id.au/tutorials/360/readme/index.html Also helped.

There are variables in the PTO files that hugin creates that I have not been able to find an explanation for. Is there somewhere that I can go to read up on PTO files as hugin understands them?

[Terry Duell]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:53:12 +1000, Brandon <bra...@flyingtsalers.com>
wrote:

> Is there somewhere that I can go to
> read up on PTO files as hugin understands them?

Have you seen this ?

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/PTOptimizer.html

Cheers,
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Regards,
Terry Duell

[T. Modes]

Am Freitag, 22. August 2014 07:53:12 UTC+2 schrieb Brandon:

Messing around with the nona and the command line I have acquired an interest in learning more about what is inside a pto file. I have opened them with text editors and I have figured out most of it. http://archive.bigben.id.au/tutorials/360/readme/index.html Also helped.

There are variables in the PTO files that hugin creates that I have not been able to find an explanation for. Is there somewhere that I can go to read up on PTO files as hugin understands them?

All parameters are described in doc/nona.txt.
Most aspects of a pto can be modified with command line programs in Hugins package. What want you modify which can't be done with command line programs?

Thomas

[Brandon]

Thanks that is exactly what I was looking for.

For some reason I never even saw the doc folder(I had to have seen it, I just never stopped to look at it).

I am doing some odd things such as making cubes or taking cubes and making them into an equalrectangle and other things that near as I can tell are not supported by the command line programs. So far anything that I have wanted to do Bruno has made a pear script to do. Where I do not get along with peal I have been reworking most of them into AutoIT3. The main advantage being that it is easy to make any kind of a GUI and some pretty complex scripts with AutoIT3 and then I can have it run command line commands with nona to do the work. (the main down side is that it will only work on a windows machine, I am actually getting some pretty good performance out of it.)

I am wanting a better understanding of what is in the PTO files to make it easier when I translate one of Bruno's scripts for AutoIT3 to work with. Plus if I understand what is happening well enough I hope to be able to add new features to the hugin scripting community.