I'm currently running some tests on making 360° panoramas with TG2 and have seen in other posts concerns over issues possibly relating to GI... in particular, tonal mismatches between adjacent images. Can someone please point me at a sample image (or post one here). I'll be doing some more tests tonight with higher quality settings but it would be nice to see what problems people are having.
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http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~bernardk/tgdemo/tetons_pano00.mov (http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~bernardk/tgdemo/tetons_pano00.mov) (468kb)
These were done with the default quality/lighting settings and I can see no problems.
The only other potential problem I can think of is if people are producing panoramas without remapping the images first (i.e. just butting them together in Photoshop).
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While the images match along their borders, they are geometrically distorted in different directions which results in all sorts of glitches including an apparent vignetting.
Could be that thread :)
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=712.0
Thanks for the reference. There seem to be two issues in that post. 1: changes with camera movement, which would be relevant to animations but not for panoramas, and 2: cropped renders, for which there is an easy workaround (don't crop ;)).
I dare say they'd be working on a fix for this one.