Panospheres : a Blender add-on for photo-based landscape simulations

[ChameleonScales]

Hi,

I made this add-on for Blender : https://gitlab.com/ChameleonScales/panospheres

It lets you import panoramic images as panospheres in Blender and manipulate them to match the photographic elements to a 3D terrain and optionally report back corrective Yaw/Pitch/Roll values to Hugin to straighten them.

It's not 1.0 yet because there are several improvements I'd like to bring to make it usable for a wider range of situations and to make it easier to use but it works fine if you follow the steps.

Have fun panoraming.

[ChameleonScales]

The add-on is now at 1.0, after many small and less small improvements. Most notably, it now supports both equirectangular and cylindrical projection.

If you work in landscape simulations and think it might interest you but the readme is lacking in clarity for you, feel free to ask about it.

[Tobias]

Hi,

It sounds interesting, but I have no clue what you are doing. Perhaps you can create a video or an tutorial with screenshots to show us what you are doing.

Best regards,

Tobias

[ChameleonScales]

I prefer a good documentation with screenshots and illustrations. If you don't have a clue, maybe it means you're not in the demographic who would have a use for it. But basically, if you know a little bit about 3D software, imagine you import a 3D terrain data (from the real world), then you place a 3D model you made of a building or whatever is to be constructed on this terrain at the correct location. You take your reflex camera, move to the location, take a panoramic photo in the direction of the object you modeled, go back to your desk and stitch your panorama. My add-on comes at this moment, when you need to import that panorama in Blender at the correct location and with the correct orientation, so that when you look through the virtual camera at the center of the panorama, your 3D object looks like it was on the photo, so you can render it and show how this construction will look in the future.