Orbit options?
How does one change the height of the Orbit POI such as orbiting a tower to focus on a point other than ground level?
Can one orbit and view along the heading? At different gimbal pitches?
How about looking outward? At different gimbal pitches?
How about focusing on a POI outside the diameter of the Orbit?
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We are considering whether to implement this functionality as additional options on the Orbit component type, or as a new type of Waypoint. In the latter case, when you drop down a Waypoint in a Path component, you would be given a choice as to what type of Waypoint (standard, circular, square, etc). If you chose circle, it would effectively put an orbit within the path, which would then allow you to use all the other controls that Path offers, such as markers and points of interest.The advantage to this approach is it keeps Orbit simple, for those that just want to do a regular orbit without having to think about all the advanced stuff. What do you think?
Jim,
I like that WP approach; still might want to have the ability to raise the focus on even the simple Orbit .
Excellent questions and feature requests...
All of those are on our dev plan along with some other advanced orbit functionality to permit taking an image at NWES, etc. etc.
Keep your requests coming and we're prioritizing the things we want to have done by full launch.
The WP approach would be great for 3D photogrammetry of 'simple' structures, but would it be re-usable (ability to change the distance-to-POI of all the WP to adapt to different structures sizes for instance) ?
Been trying to achieve something similar using orbit, filming at very low speed. Unless I'm mistaken you can't insert markers to pause the drone and take a shot, right ?
I think a new Facade Scan component type might be more appropriate for that use case. This is also on our roadmap.
Was a POI height for orbit ever implemented? Seems important and should be easy to add.
The option is not implemented yet. We did add the option to specify a custom drone heading and gimbal angle though:
I would like to orbit or path around a house and take photos at 10 feet, 20 feet, 30 feet, 40 feet and then use photogrammy software to make a 3D model. Is this something that a component exists for? Or would I just write a new component that combines orbits?
You can either put 4 orbits down, or use Final Altitude and do a spiral.
We have Facade ready to test on our dev server. Let me know if you want to take a look.
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