I’ve plowed through outputting a substantial percentage of scan data of a cave. I had encountered a couple of tricky sections with inadequate overlapping photography, will go back to rectify that situation, but the plan was for now to eyeball scaling and aligning these orphaned sections. In so doing, I discovered an overlapping area previously missed, set 6 CPs and viola, this section is now tied in. This new Composition, however, has it’s own coordinate system, so my .rcbox regions don’t help me tie a reconstruction in to the existing meshes. Since RC has knowledge of how all these cameras relate to the earlier Composition minus the new section, is there no way to have the new grown Composition somehow inherit the scale and coordinate system from the earlier Composition?
Hi Benjamin
are you using LOCAL or some specific EPSG coordinate system that is different per COMPONENT ?
try to do this and report back if it has worked for you:
in the “reference” COMPONENT select all images and export XMPs as LOCKED. Then open the new project where you have all the data you want to process and align them again. the XMPS have existing coordinates and LOCKED down, so they should be put together with the new data.
Thanks, Milos. I’ve since decided to redo, realized my decision to rotate the Reconstruction Region wasn’t smart, unless every adjoining RR shared that rotation. In any event, I’d like to ensure we’re on the same page about this actually being possible, should I face this need in the future. I’m am using the same coord system, Local. By exporting XMPs as Locked, bringing them into the updated aligned Composition and aligning again, are you suggesting this updated Composition should inherit the coordinate system locked into the XMPs?