TG2 and HDRI Panoramas (Hugin)

[neon22]

Hugin has reached the point of a stable release.
This means an OS alternative to PTStitcher.

For HDR work IWBNI we could get EXR images through the pipeline.
However Hugin (Nona really) does not support OpenEXR directly - but it does support float Tiff for HDRI purposes.

In the interests of getting a complete workflow - would it be possible for TG2 to support floating point tiff output for HDR renderings.
If so then a soup to nuts solution would exist for rendering HDR environment maps etc using TG2
(Using http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=2816.0)

[Oshyan]

Expanding import and export format support is in the list for the future. The currently supported formats are what the final release will be able to handle.

- Oshyan

[bigben]

Haven't tried it yet, but ImageMagick can be built to handle EXR which might do the job(?)

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/high-dynamic-range.php

[neon22]

Hi Ben,
yes that is the best solution right now. Alas you have to build it yourself. There is no distributed binary with EXR support.

Also Hugin beta-5 is expected soon and may well have Nona using HDRI also but no guarantees.
I am trying to get people on these two lists to produce an OpenEXR version when they do their next build but I am a lone voice...

If we had an Imagemagick build with EXR support then tiling in HDRI would be easy, using my published script.
If we had Nona with EXR support then Panoramas in HDRI would be simple too.

At the moment Nona will do Tiff (float) for HDRI but conversion is not automatic due to missing Imagemagick EXR build.
And alas - i don't have VS2005 to build it