Using Enfuse in PTGui --

[Ken Warner]

I know how to tell PTGui where to find Enfuse.
It's in Options -> Plugins.

What I don't know is what command line arguments
to give Enfuse. Are there appropriate command
line arguments that need to be specified to use
Enfuse in PTGui?

And what command line arguments does PTGui supply
to Enfuse when PTGui uses Enfuse?

And should I use Autopano-sift-c? What does
PTGui use for control point generation?

What I've seen is that PTGui usually does a
better job than Autopano-xxxxx. But are there
times when Autopano-xxxx would be a better choice?

Ken

[Erik Krause]

On Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:02, Ken Warner wrote:

> know how to tell PTGui where to find Enfuse.
> It's in Options -> Plugins.

You speak about enfuse or enblend?

You can't specify enfuse instead of enblend, this won't work. To my
knowledge there is no possibility to have enfuse as an exposure
fusion tool in PTGui, you must either use the internal exposure
fusion or use enfuse outside PTGui (f.e. with my enfuse droplets ->
http://www.erik-krause.de/enfuse_droplets.zip or the enfuse GUI ->
http://software.bergmark.com/enfuseGUI/ )

> What I don't know is what command line arguments
> to give Enfuse. Are there appropriate command
> line arguments that need to be specified to use
> Enfuse in PTGui?
>
> And what command line arguments does PTGui supply
> to Enfuse when PTGui uses Enfuse?

ASAIK for enblend only the -w parameter is specified automatically if
the panorama is 360°. You can specify -a -l20 additionally to get
faster/better results.

> And should I use Autopano-sift-c? What does
> PTGui use for control point generation?

PTGui uses it's internal control point generator.

> What I've seen is that PTGui usually does a
> better job than Autopano-xxxxx. But are there
> times when Autopano-xxxx would be a better choice?

Sometimes autopano is better if the images are differently exposed.
autopano-sift is reported to be better than autopano, but I didn't
test.

best regards
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

[Ken Warner]

I meant Enblend. Sorry.

[Ken Warner]

I run Windows 2000 SP4. I have .NET 2.0 but
EnfuseGUI doesn't run I guess because it
checks to see if it's on XP or Vista.

Any plans to back port it to Windows 2000?

[Erik Krause]

Ken Warner wrote:
> I run Windows 2000 SP4. I have .NET 2.0 but
> EnfuseGUI doesn't run I guess because it
> checks to see if it's on XP or Vista.
> Any plans to back port it to Windows 2000?

I've asked Ingemar already (I'm on Win 2000 as well), but apparently he
didn't find the time...

You might want to try tufuse Pro instead. Just another implementation of
the algorithm with some nice features:
http://www.tawbaware.com/tufusepro.htm

--
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

[Ken Warner]

Yes, I've used TuFusePro. Max has
done some good things there.

[Philipp B. Koch]

Erik Krause schrieb:

There is also "TuFusion", a free GUI for tufuse. It's not as sophisticated as TuFuse Pro, but I still find it very useful though:
http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=4966

Regards, Philipp Koch

[Kevin Wilton]

Ken

I guess you have two options and my sympathies:

1) A new computer in XP/Vista - the 64 bit version of
the latter
is very nice.

2) A dual boot computer with what you have. I have to
be honest,
I only left W2K because CS3 required XP SP2 or newer
to run,
it's a superb OS, stable and robust.

Kev