It is tricky, for sure, to get multi-image PhotoMatch projects to work.

One thing that may cause problems is that no lens is perfect.
Most wide angle lenses get a barrel, and most teles get a pillow radial distortion. This is usually more pronounced in zoom lenses than in primes.
This should really be corrected to get good results, and that is what real photogrammetry apps do.
It may be done with PS, AcDSee or other tools like PTgui and other panorama stitchers.

Another thing that may cause problems is that house corners aren't always 90 degrees, particularly in city streets. Very often they follow the street instead of being perfectly squared corners. As SU relies on such corners being 90 degrees it fails when trying to force the photo into a model with 90deg corners.
Using cropped photos is another source for problems - always use the full image.
Always try to avoid ground lines for aligning perspective. The ground is rarely completely level (at least here in Norway .
PhotoMatch is great fun to use, and very fast, but it does have its limitations.

There is a real photogrammetry solution for SU now, PhotoScan from tgi3D. I'm testing it right now (30 days full version trial), and it is very promising. It uses triangulation to place points in 3D space, and then allows you to build the models quite easily inside SU. Like this partly built boat made from 5 photos (too closely for capturing the full boat).

Here's a Javascript viewer/player for objects and panoramas: http://jquery.vostrel.cz/reel
Using js and JQuery, and it can do multi-row. Look at that Mini.

@dave r said:

Late last night I got the DXF files back from the PDFs I submitted to CometDocs. Unfortunately the single lines were all doubled so they weren't usable floor plans. Ah well. It probably works for some.
That's the problem with many pdf site plans etc; that lines with a thickness (which is often all of them) gets converted to double lines.
When I get pdf files I usually load into PS, with a resolution like 100 dots per cm. Then it's easy to get it into SU with the exact size/scale maintained.
That's OK for us metric guys anyway, which according to a report I just read, is every country in the world except Liberia, Burma and USA

If you export as 3ds you will get the bitmaps extracted too. If they'll fit the UV maps in Unreal is another questions though... However, they do fit very well when importing the 3ds files into LW

I use Nugraf/Polytrans from Okino for this.
Works great, and also translates directly to skp if you want.

Thanks a lot for your in-depth reply
This really looks like it is the "missing link" for me, after being abandoned by Realviz/Autodesk and MetaCreations/Canoma/Adobe.
I wonder why you're not using the work 'photogrammetry' on your product?
If you did I would have found it earlier, instead of bumping into it by accident, because that's what I've been searching for as a replacement for Imagemodeler.

Have you ever thought about running an upgrade campaign:
'Abandoned by Autodesk/Realviz? - upgrade to tgi3D PhotoScan for $??? now!' ?

@unknownuser said:

I can't answer the upgrade to Photoscan part. But if you haven't availed of the 30 day trial yet then you'll survive the weekend playing with both.

I just downloaded both, but had planned to start with Amorph. A bit short of time currently..
I hope that the PhotoScan trial period doesn't start counting until after installing?

@unknownuser said:

But I do know the Tgi developers are hard at work with some user feedback suggestions been implemented. And the new UV addition looks pretty awesome.

Looking forward to that too

@unknownuser said:

Yes Amorph is included in tgi3D Photoscan. Photoscan is a standalone piece of software that exports to .skp. In fact when you choose export, SU will open with your Photoscan calibrated images loaded as scenes. It Photomatch on steroids

Thanks
Then I suppose that if you first buy Amorph and later want the full PhotoScan version then you could have those $150 deducted from the full price?
I asked support the same question, but they probably don't work at weekends (like the rest of us do
At the moment I cannot afford to spend $1000 on a tool that I currently don't really need, but Amorph I need/want right now..

Sorry, but it isn't quite clear to me if Amorph is included when you buy PhotoScan?

They both seems to be able to make good models from photos.
I've been using Imagemodeler and Photomodeler for many years now, combined with SketchUp. Since Autodesk bought RealViz and removed Imagemodeler from open/single sales (need to buy Max or similar), and Photomodeler is not quite so good at modelling (and also quite pricey and with a very expensive licensing policy for us that don't live in USA/Canada - being forced to buy from local dealers with bloated prices), the availabilty of easy-to-use and affordable photogrammetry software is very limitied. That LockView tool looks very promising!
It looks like PhotoScan (Amorph) will do the job fine?
There's no calibrated cameras, but I hope that they take into account lens parameters/distortions?

I'm downloading Amorph/Free and PhotoScan/Trial right now

@gulcanocali said:

Hi Pixero,

We are aware that many users now own multiple computers (at least one at home and one at work) and need to be able to use the same software on each without any additional cost. We are trying to figure out a remedy for this, we may move to a similar licensing scheme as described which will require some development time or maybe have a "2 for 1 sale" .

Of all the single-user schemes I think I like the Messiah verison best. It's like a USB dongle, but using a standard (one of your own) USB memory stick.
Works great