Panoramic won't generate

[mbrett]

I have been trying to make a panoramic from a set of 36 images. When I follow the tutorial and put the images into a group and set that group as a station and set the camera type as spherical and align photos, I don't generate any tie points. If I align photos without setting the images as a station it will generate a spare point cloud. If I then create a station out of the photos, I can use the panoramic command and the preview looks correct, however, when I try to actual create the panoramic nothing generates.

I took the pictures with my phone without a tripod or anything, do I need to take images with a tripod/camera setup for this to work?

If anyone has suggestions to fix my workflow that would be greatly appreciated.

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello mbrett,

What camera model you are using?

If it is the common digital camera, then you should keep Camera Type as Frame in the Camera Calibration dialog. Spherical camera type means that the input images are already represented as stitched panoramas in equirectangular representation.

Using Camera Station image grouping in the Workspace pane assumes that all the images have been taken using the tripod and calibrated nodal head.

That is the only way in the current version to generate spherical panorama: take images with the calibrated nodal head: https://agisoft.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/31000148830-spherical-panoramas-generation-
Using arbitrary shooting from multiple locations would not allow to generate spherical panoramas, unless you generate textured mesh or tiled model and then using the Python scripting render panoramas from synthetic cameras:
https://github.com/agisoft-llc/metashape-scripts/blob/master/src/render_spherical_panorama.py