HuginOSX how-to

This is a rough guide on how to get HuginOSX working with autopano-sift. It assumes that you already have HuginOSX installed. It was originally posted as a response to a question asked on (I think) gmane.comp.misc.ptx . Note to self: tidy this up at some point.

I chose to use autopano-sift rather than autopano. The steps I followed were: 1. Download and install Mono, available at http://www.mono- project.com/Downloads - just download the .dmg, and follow the instructions enclosed. 2. Download autopano-sift, available at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/ ~nowozin/autopano-sift/autopano-sift-2.3.tar.gz - open that (assuming you have stuffit or similar installed), and then copy-and-paste the contents of the "bin" directory into your applications folder (I put it in the same folder as huginOSX, renaming "bin" to "autopano-sift", but it doesn't really matter where it is). 3. This is the nasty step - you need to open autopano-complete.sh in a text editor. Find the line in the file that starts AUTOPANO_PATH, and put a # in front of it. Then, start a new line and put "AUTOPANO_PATH=/Applications/HuginOSX/autopano-sift" on it (minus the "). Then, edit the path to wherever you've put the bin folder, making sure you don't have a trailing / on the end of it. Then, search for every occurance of "generatekeys.exe" and replace it with "generatekeys-sd.exe". Save, close. 4. If you've used the "PutAutopanoSiftToHuginOSX" application, then you need to do this step. Control-click of the HuginOSX application, and select "Show package contents". Then go to Contents/Resources/ and delete the autopano-sift folder. Then close the window. 5. Finally, open HuginOSX and go to the preferences, and put in the address to the autopano-sift script (e.g. "/Applications/HuginOSX/ autopano-sift/autopano-complete.sh"). Click OK.

Having just typed all of that, I've remembered where I originally found the instructions - in the HuginOSX zip I downloaded (from http://homepage.mac.com/ippei_ukai/software/) there's a guide in the tools/autopano-sift folder.

One thing to note: when you're using the "Create Ctrl Points" button you will get an error message if there is a space in the path to the images. So /path/to/image/image01.jpg will be fine, but "/path to image/image01.jpg" will give you an error. Hopefully whoever codes HuginOSX will see this, and bug-fix appropriately.