Multiple Component Problem with full body scan

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Hi everyone,

I love this software it gives great results and thanks for that!

Now I’m trying to get to the best possible results and I couldn’t help but notice that from time to time I end up with many components after image alignment.

In this given example I get 8 components out of my 3D scan where the biggest component contains 73 images from a total imageset of 90 images.

As far as I understand this means I have to work with only 73 images for alignment and reconstruction and 17 images are left un-used.
This is a pity as it would offcourse improve the quality of the final mesh if I can use all the 90 images for reconstruction.

How can I merge these multiple components into 1 component so that I can use all 90 images for alignment and finally reconstruction?

I have already tried looking for an answer on this forum but couldn’t find.
What I did see was some settings which I copied into my software but it didn’t do the magic for me.

In attached screen shots you may see all the settings which I found on this forum and which I use before starting alignment.

I look forward for your assistance, thank you!

Sander

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Hi Sander,

you can use control points to get the missing images into the larger component. You can see more information in this point Faster workflow for adding ground control points

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Hi Sander Diels

Best if you use the XMP workflow. Align properly at least one dataset -> so that all cameras are aligned, good lighting, good subject clothing etc. When you have good alignment, select all cameras and use the METADATA ( XMP ) tool and export cameras as LOCKED.
Then get the exported XMP files into a good dataset. COPY them to another problematic data ( JPG folder ), load in RC and hit align…