How to capture 360-degree panoramas at waypoints

That sounds really encouraging! Is it a big job to do? I know DJI will allow you to tilt to +60 degrees but is there any Litchi limitations that would kick in?

Many thanks

Andrew

It is an easy change. Since this is a new app, I am unaware of any limitations such as this? Do you have the beta version of Litchi Pilot? If so, I can make the change and you can test.

Yes please! We have some nice weather so keen to test new beta today and over weekend :slight_smile:

I’ve changed the maximum to 60 degrees for the top row.

Thank you Sir just need Litchi Pilot to stop telling me the flight is interrupted as the flight mode was changed which I haven’t touched…

Only rises 2m then stops when playing a simple mission. Once I sort that I’m very keen to try your pano edit.

Many thanks

Andrew

Specs for testing
DJI Mini 3 Pro, Firmware 01.00.0600
DJI Fly App Version 1.10.6
Litchi Pilot Version 1.0.0_Beta-dji Build 125
Samsung A54 Phone , One UI Version 5.1, Android Version 13
DJI RC-N1 Controller Firmware 04.14.0600

Seems like a bug Litchi Pilot lets me fly manually in the same zone. In terms of flight mode the top centre screen only ever says Tripod / GPS / Sport relating to Cine / Normal / Sport Controller Modes.

Haven’t really nailed Geo Zone is the issue, will drive out of it and test same mission to see if works…

CAUSE OF “FLIGHT INTERRUPTED. FLIGHT MODE CHANGED” AND MISSION NOT RUNNING
So I trialed my mission outside the Geo Zone and it ran fine! So the Geo Zone appears to be causing the issue. I’m hoping Litchi can sort as even though when in a Geo Zone the mission won’t run you can still fly the drone manually using the Litchi Pilot (after you have gotten authority from DJI) so if you can fly it manually there must be something triggering the flight mode change in the mission scenario that Litchi can fix. Here’s hoping… I have also passed feedback via the app option.

I’m pretty sure when I had the Mini 1 I could use missions in my Geo Zone using Litchi so hopefully is just a bug that can be solved.

I can now try and load up your higher pitching Pano Software and try outside my Geo Zone. I’ll let you know how I go…

I don’t think the going above 30 degrees will work at this stage getting this warning message :frowning:

Maybe too early with the development of the Pilot App and bigger allowed upward Gimbal Tilts of the Mini 3 Pro?

Hello

Does the panorama calculation place several waypoint on each other?

I’m thinking I could make a simple excel where this can be done.

I like to try different ways to do mapping missions and if it’s possible to have several waypoint on each position to do more than can be done normally in litchi it would help.

My web application creates a path where several waypoints share the same location. However, because two adjacent waypoints cannot share the same location I must place intermediate waypoints between those that are used to capture the photos.

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Hey Wes,

I tried to set up a waypoint mission to capture pano’s at 9 different GPS coordinates. For whatever reason it is only taking 7 photos per location and three of them are coming out severely blurry. Can you please help me to get this sorted cause I don’t know what I am doing wrong…

Hmmm. I use this function and I always get all photos. If you have your photos preferences set to take both jpg and raw, try changing that to just jpg. What drone are you using?

It should be taking 8 photos in the top and middle rows then 5 in the bottom row. Do you know which ones it is taking?

That would depend on your camera settings. With a sufficiently high shutter speed there should be no blur. What was your shutter speed? Do you have an ND filter installed? If so, remove it. There is no need for an ND filter when taking photos unless you want to introduce motion blur.

Good morning. Thanks for your quick response.

I was flying the Mavic 2 Pro for this capture. The client wants jpeg and RAW which is why I was using the M2P. I thought it would be my only option of my airframes to get both formats. I tried to do waypoints with my M3E but I couldn’t get it to work and it only allows pano capture in jpegs.

I did have an ND filter on the M2P. Didn’t even think about that. I’ll try taking it off.

What would you suggest I do/adjust to make this mission a success? I definitely need to produce jpeg and RAW files for my client. That was an absolute need for them.

I’m pretty sure I have shot panos while capturing both raw and jpeg. Is it possible that you are using a less-than-optimum microSD card whose write-speed is not fast enough to capture both? If so, try a faster card. Also, if you did change to jpeg only, and it worked, that would indicate that it is a write-speed issue. That would be a good troubleshooting step.

You could try my mission converter to convert a pano mission to M3E format.

I’m using a SanDisk Extreme Pro 64gb card. I’ve never had any problems with that particular card having read issues.

I am actually working on creating a test flight right now to use in the M3 converter.

I just executed a panorama mission created from my web utility using my Mavic 2 Zoom with the photo capture set to JPEG+RAW. It captured all of the photos, 22 jpegs and 22 raw images. I tried when using both auto-focus and manual-focus. Both times it worked as expected.

I’m running out of ideas why it might not be working for you. Have you tried using manual-focus? That would at least eliminate the focusing step before taking each photo.

Maybe it is how I am creating the mission is Litchi before using the converter? I am at a loss as well.

On another note, I can’t locate the M3 converter on the site. Should I be looking somewhere else for it?

Capture

I saw that you made that change. I was able to successfully have the M3E run my test mission. It took 22 jpeg and 22 RAW images at 3 different waypoints. The angles are a bit off cause it didn’t capture the sky totally but I think that more a problem of the capability of the gimbal than anything else. I’ll take it though and hoping it is sufficient for the clients needs.