I did this mission a while back, but never was able to completely process the photos. I took 1,336 photos of all elevations of the building and whenever I tried to process them, it would turn up incomplete or just plain awful. So I decided to process each elevation individually and later merge them together in hopes that the building will end up complete.
The process I used is as follows:
- Set the camera to timelapse 2s with the camera pointing at 0 degrees.
- When flying the building, make sure the Evo remains on it's Y axis as stable as possible, so all photos match perfectly when you scroll up or down. When I did this specific shoot, I was flying in 20mph winds with gusts up to 40mph.
-Go all the way up, slide left or right and go down, slide left or right and go up as to create a pattern, just like an horizontal mission.
Sadly, this building is humongous, so each elevation can take up to 1 week on my laptop.
(Intel i7 4660HQ, 32Gb DDR3 RAM, 2 4Gb GTX 860M in SLI)
So far I have completed 1 elevation and the photo I'm posting isn't the completed version. I left it finishing the Tiled Model this morning, before leaving for work, so I will update at a later time as time permits.
Please pay no mind at the garbage on the sides. I will clean those out when I merge all 4 elevations together.
If all goes according to plan, I should get a high resolution version of Google Map's.
Sadly, it will never look as complete as Google's since this building is in controlled airspace and there is a ceiling limit which won't allow me to fly over it.
If you are interested and want to know my settings, please don't hesitate to ask.
The process I used is as follows:
- Set the camera to timelapse 2s with the camera pointing at 0 degrees.
- When flying the building, make sure the Evo remains on it's Y axis as stable as possible, so all photos match perfectly when you scroll up or down. When I did this specific shoot, I was flying in 20mph winds with gusts up to 40mph.
-Go all the way up, slide left or right and go down, slide left or right and go up as to create a pattern, just like an horizontal mission.
Sadly, this building is humongous, so each elevation can take up to 1 week on my laptop.
(Intel i7 4660HQ, 32Gb DDR3 RAM, 2 4Gb GTX 860M in SLI)
So far I have completed 1 elevation and the photo I'm posting isn't the completed version. I left it finishing the Tiled Model this morning, before leaving for work, so I will update at a later time as time permits.
Please pay no mind at the garbage on the sides. I will clean those out when I merge all 4 elevations together.
If all goes according to plan, I should get a high resolution version of Google Map's.
Sadly, it will never look as complete as Google's since this building is in controlled airspace and there is a ceiling limit which won't allow me to fly over it.
If you are interested and want to know my settings, please don't hesitate to ask.
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