Different image sets for alignment and texturing

I would like to see the option to have different Image sets for alignment and texturing.

When I take photos of objects I tend to take two photos for each position.
One with a pattern projected onto the object, one without the pattern.

That pattern helps with the alignment process as it adds structure to otherwise featureless areas and areas that are only one single color.

But, of course, I do not want said pattern to show up on the final texture - which is why I take the second set of photos.

I’d like to have a way to tell the program that I have two sets of photos and which set to use for alignment and which for texturing.

Hi Dennis Maurer

if you are doing it for fullbody scanning then with CLI version you can do it fully automatic once is set properly.

Do you have PROMO or CLI version ?

Dear Dennis,
thank you for the post. We plan to implement support for this also to the UI. Meanwhile you can use ugly manual workaround : Import set 1 -> align -> reconstruct -> save -> close RC -> replace set 1 with images from set 2 -> open RC -> open project -> texture.