Add support for Smartblend and PTmender

[andylawn]

It would be nice to be able to use Smartblend or
PTmender as an alternative stitcher. I gather
PTmender is similar to PTstitcher but faster, and
Smartblend is designed to stitch around parallax
errors.

[nickzumstein (nickzumstein-users)]

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you can already use smartblend
tested with smartblend smartblend_1_2_3b0 and hugin 0.6.1):

on windows in the hugin program folder:
-rename enblend.exe to enblend_original.exe
-put smartblend.exe incl. all accompanying .dll files into
that folder.
-rename smartblend.exe to enblend.exe

enjoy

nick

[Pablo d'Angelo (pablo.dangelo)]

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For smartblend, there is no need to rename the exectuable.
Just open the preferences panel, go to "enblend" tab and
select "use custom enblend", and select smartblend.

The same can be done with PTmender. Just use it as a
replacement for PTStitcher. I haven't had the time to create
a PTmender choice yet... The only problem is that the
cropped tiff output can only be activated when editing the
script..

[nobody (nobody-users)]

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Am I the only one who cant get Hugin to work with smartblend?

Have the latest versions installed, and have the preferences
set as mentioned. But when its is time to blend I experience
the smartblend window opening but clocing again imidiately -
it seems no data is passed to Smartblend??

PS. I choose TIFF format and check the softblend field.

Am I missing something??

Anyway thanks for all your great work - and yes please find
time and way to incorporate choice options for different
blending programs. Would really love the smartblend
incorporated.

Thanks
Soren - Italy

[fakko (fakko)]

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In order to support Smartblend under Linux it would be really nice to have a switch in the options for the alternative enblend program that allows using relative paths. I run Smartblend with Wine and it works fine except that it needs the pure filenames (assuming the working directory for the external program is the directory in which the images reside).

A call to smartblend should then look like this:
wine smartblend.exe -o result.tif 01.tif 02.tif 03.tif

[fecundfec (fecundfec)]

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I also can't get smartblend to work with hugin. I'm using windows, smartblend 1.2.5, and Hugin 0.7 beta 4. Smartblend just opens a DOS window and immediately closes when run from Hugin. It seems to run from a cmd window ok though. Wish I could see the command line Hugin is trying to execute!

[nickzumstein (nickzumstein-users)]

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*HOW TO USE HUGIN WITH SMARTBLEND*

enblend 3.0 can be used with cropped tif images. Smartblend doesn't support that. In order to make hugin work with smartblend you have to *disable* this function in the settings. (sorry, don't have a hugin installation right now, can't give you a more detailed instruction)

nick

[tmodes (tmodes)]

smartblend does not support HDR images. So I will not add it to the main interface.
But the user output (added in changeset e742ac9250cd) allows now an easier way to use smartblend (normal_smartblend.executor)