Panorama | Center view as we want on 360°

[Petrus]

Hey, as Hugin is able to do... It's possible to change the view of the final stitched image

https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/10233b44-1683-40bf-82c1-8c42f329da91

May be I've not found this in Photo... or it can be a cool feature

[Dan C]

Hi @Petrus 

Please navigate to Layer > Live Projection > Equirectangular Projection and enable this option.

Once within this projection, you can move the 360 image around until you're happy with the 'centre point'.

Now, select Centre Coordinate System from the context toolbar. This will take the current view and set this as the starting point for the image when being viewed in 360 mode.

I hope this helps!

[Petrus]

Thx @Dan C

It looks like the right tool
But sadly this is not the same steps as Hugin. Hugin will recalculate/stitch the panorama from the centered view. Photo wil "only" rotate the final result.
As you can see on my final 360°, the panorama is not well stitched.

May be I've not used this tool as it should ?

[Dan C]

Apologies for the delayed response as we have been closed over the holidays!

On 12/24/2020 at 11:46 AM, Petrus said:

Hugin will recalculate/stitch the panorama from the centered view. Photo wil "only" rotate the final result.

Thanks for confirming that for me, I can confirm that Affinity is not re-stitching the image, as you've mentioned this option is designed to transform the final 360 image to change the origin point.

On 12/24/2020 at 11:46 AM, Petrus said:

As you can see on my final 360°, the panorama is not well stitched.

Sorry to see this! Was the image correctly stitched before changing the centre origin?

When using Affinity to create Panoramas, please note that this isn't designed to create seamless 360 images, as the algorithm in use here will only try to make a seamless 'flat' panorama, so you may need to manually edit each end of the image to achieve a seamless 'looped' image.