Poor Alignment with DJI Mini 3

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I have been using a Mavic Air 2 with great results. I recently purchased a DJI mini 3 which supposedly has a similar camera. I probably did the most detailed take off I’ve done to date and I was surprised when the alignment came back with a very poor 100/700 photos. It only aligned the front of the building and it was quite unlevel / tilted.

Does anyone know if the Mini 3 was the issue? I did not change any settings before shooting. The photos themselves look fine and similar to what I would capture on the Mavic Air 2.

I tried aligning multiple times with the same results.

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When adding the folder of images I get this error message:

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Then, it only imported a few of the images in the folder. Very strange.

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Here is a 2nd scan. I took 292 images and it aligned all images. However, the model is not level:

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What in the world is going on?

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Hello @Big_Picture045
The Adding images is a known bug on Windows side: Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (RC-1881)

The problems with your alignment could be a poor GPS for such drone. Try to turn off the camera priors (the positions obtained from the capturing) and then align the images again.