order of placement, how to do on dark images

[Kevin York]

HI,

    I know the order of the images my drone makes for 21 images... and Hugin is just not working well for them sometimes.  Is there a way to get hugin to allow me to shuffle the images to place them in the correct order.

for example according to copilot the order for this one project is:
Top Row:     12   7   6   2  13  18  19
Middle Row:  11   8   5   1  14  17  20
Bottom Row:  10   9   4   3  15  16  21

I feel that if I could show the correct order, the ap would have an easier time stitching.

[T. Modes]

Hi,

11ky...@gmail.com schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2026 um 00:20:59 UTC+2:

HI,

    I know the order of the images my drone makes for 21 images... and Hugin is just not working well for them sometimes.  Is there a way to get hugin to allow me to shuffle the images to place them in the correct order.

for example according to copilot the order for this one project is:
Top Row:     12   7   6   2  13  18  19
Middle Row:  11   8   5   1  14  17  20
Bottom Row:  10   9   4   3  15  16  21

 that's a very strange shooting pattern.

You can drag the images into a single snake: 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 1 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

But it is some work to do.

Otherwise you can use a template with pto_template or pto_var with cpfind --prealigned option

https://wiki.panotools.org/Cpfind#Matching_overlapping_images_.28prealigned_panorama.29 and https://wiki.panotools.org/Pto_template

or something similar https://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Panorama_Workflow#Scripting last example

Otherwise there a several threads on this workflow on the mailing list.

But maybe the simplest way would be to change to simpler shooting pattern like a single snake.