Orbit Capture Interval in Degrees
Trying to automate the capture of photos as I orbit around a building. Is it possible to specify the capture interval as a number of degrees? I.e. capture a photo every 12 degrees? Is there a way to specify overlap? I am guessing that potential solution is to create a facade instead of an orbit and position boundary points to make an orbit rather than a straight line.
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Facade is what you are looking for.
Thanks Jim - how about a feature request? Option to create a facade path as a straight line (current functionality) and an option to create a facade path as an orbit, complete with a radius setting (and direction of course)?
The workaround, if you use facade, is to create an orbit with the desired radius and then create the facade and layout waypoints using the orbit path as a template. Great until you realize the initial radius doesn't work quite right and you need to increase or decrease it.
Thanks for your response and consideration.
I suppose a small rectangular path, it took 6 boundary points to be able to close the loop, might work. Change the target distance if you decide the radius needs to change. I have not run this yet but is this what you had in mind? Will the overlap parameters work in this scenario? Increasing the corner radius helped smooth out the path. It looks good in the preview but a little concerned about the overlap parameters since the facade is supposed to be taking pictures of the boundary line?
@Bob juust set the boundary face to circular in the facade settings
Well that's pretty easy! Thanks Martin. I did not pick-up on / recall those settings from all the searching I did.
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