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How to 360 photograph a large boat in a boathouse for dollhouse view?16103

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Hi all,
I'm fairly new to 360 virtual tours, I use the Ricoh Theta Z1 with Matterport app, have been using it a couple of weeks now.

I've been trying to do a virtual tour shoot at our town's lifeboat station and have a shoot at the museum tomorrow which has a number large boats inside but I can't seem to work out how to successfully shoot it so that the meshing works and it provides a decent dollhouse view showing the boat properly.

The boat is on a carriage so the hull is about 3ft off the ground and the top of the boat is about 9ft off the ground. If I start at ground level and go around the boat all it's getting is the hull so I tried reshooting it with the camera 12ft up on a large lightstand and then shoot another sequence of scans from the usual 5 ft stand I use but that doesn't see to be working either.

I'm wondering if anyone else has found a solution to shooting really big objects/boats/vehicles in a room. I potentially have a camper van show room to do in a couple of weeks and would like to be able to get the roofs of the campers in for the showroom dollhouse view so presumably that will require shooting a sequence at a much higher level and then hiding those points for the virtual tour. Is shooting at different heights going to confuse the software?

Have spent hours Googling & looking on YouTube but not found an answer yet so would really appreciate any tips please?
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I've been trying to do a virtual tour shoot at our town's lifeboat station and have a shoot at the museum tomorrow which has a number large boats inside but I can't seem to work out how to successfully shoot it so that the meshing works and it provides a decent dollhouse view showing the boat properly.


There is an option to NOT SHOW the dollhouse. Does that help?

Dan
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Thanks Dan, yes I have tried that option but it seems a real shame to have to disable it. I’d really like to work out a way to shoot it so that it works.
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Do you have a photo of the boat house that you can post here? It might help understand the challenge.

Best,

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Thank you - the virtual tour is at the link below but it has lots of issues. Will reshoot if I can work out how to get it working for this space. I think the sides of the trailer aren’t helping either. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=FnwU76GFBnf

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Thank you - the virtual tour is at the link below but it has lots of issues. Will reshoot if I can work out how to get it working for this space. I think the sides of the trailer aren’t helping either. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=FnwU76GFBnf



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Got any thoughts about how to improve the mesh on this boat house when shooting with a Ricoh Theta Z1?

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Video: Editing your Matterport Model: Trim | Video courtesy of Matterport YouTube Channel | 8 November 2021

@ChrisTaylor

While not your question, this may be helpful regarding trimming the top of the dollhouse:

Post-process trimming in Workshop!

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Thank you, I haven't bothered trimming this one yet as it just looks so bad I didn't want to spend any more time on it if I'm going to re-shoot it. It may just be that spaces like this are outside of what is possible with the technology right now.
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I believe it looks bad because you are using a one click camera. If you use a Pro2 it will look much better.
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