Hugin

It would be more userfriendly to do so, I agree, but it's very hard to do
as it requires one to have autopano_sift_ on his/her system. I prefer
panomatic as it uses less memory, it's much faster and also gives a better
spread in CP's as well which is better for stitching. It doesn't allow for
more than 122-125 images, depending on the parameters.
It can hardly be done automatically as there are other CPgenerators and
all require other settings.

Not the ideal, but the optimal way would be something like:
- count images and parameters
- if >= 128 check if autopano_sift-c is used
yes: alter parameters automatically
no: Check for existence of autopano-sift-c
exists: message to user: <blah blah blah> you need to use
autopano-sift-c instead with this parameters
doesn't exist: this is only possible with autopano_sift_c. you
need to install it if you want to use this no. of images. if you are in
the US pay attention to the copyright infringements
Or you should you should lower the images below (128 - parameters)

Your solution with changing the parameters works great but isn't it better
to add the %s parameter automatically if the max images-limit exceeds?

hvdwolf - Good to know about the hard limit. I will try with the setting
you mentioned.

I'm concerned that people that try to use the program without knowing the
hard limit are going to have the same experience. Is there any way that
instead of crashing with no reason given, it could pop up an error message,
prevent more than 123 images, or ideally, throw up a warning of "Max Images
exceeded, changing the param to '--maxmatches %p %o %s'"?

This is a wxwidgets problem, the number of photos is limited to 120 or so,
the solution is to change the autopano preference to supply the list of
photos in a single project file:

–maxmatches %p %o %s

Perhaps a crash/"report this crash to Microsoft" isn't how the program
should react when people load more than 123 images - would it be possible
to have the program instead display the instructions you just gave me?

This is not a Hugin bug. All programs, also the Control Point generators
are limited to 128 arguments. Including the neccessary arguments that
leaves you to 123 images maximum. Less images if you use more arguments.


In case you do need to use more images (180 in your case), you can only
use autopano-sift-c and you should add the %s parameter to autopano-sift-c.
In that case your images will be fed into a temporary script and Hugin &
autopano-sift-c automatically work on.

You can adjust that in the hugin preferences pane on the autopano tab: set
the arguments to something like --maxmatches %p %o %s

Please test and close this bug report if it works as mentioned above.


Harry