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General / Re: What are workflow steps masking in photoshop then bring into Agisoft ?

« on: May 08, 2023, 02:37:05 PM »

short answer is absolutely YES. You can use 3rd party software to create the masks and then import them in Metashape.

An old thread on the forum: -> https://www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=5886.0

Helpdesk Portal: -> https://agisoft.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/folders/31000119359

Other tut: -> https://www.academia.edu/34745519/TUTORIAL_CREATING_MASKS_IN_PHOTOSHOP_TO_IMPORT_IN_PHOTOSCAN_ENGLISH_VERSION_pdf

hope these helps

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General / Re: Optimizing Processing Time?

« on: March 10, 2023, 04:12:26 PM »

Do you have you images in a HDD or an SSD or M.2 drive?

I think (somebody correct me if i'm wrong) that and old HDD can have an impact in performance compared to SSD/M.2 if you have a lot of high resolution images.

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General / Re: Issues with Cleaning up Mesh Clouds

« on: March 10, 2023, 03:57:13 PM »

Have you tried to use Gradual Selection?

Go to the to menus -> "Model -> Gradual Selection" and choose "Connected component size" move the slider until you select all the small components you want to delete.

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Feature Requests / Re: Orthomosaic/DEM export with watermark

« on: November 03, 2022, 12:40:03 PM »

I know it is an old request but as Alexey said it was on their to-do list for a long time.

Any news on the possibility to add custom watermarks? Should we expect to be added anytime soon ?

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General / Re: Automated Drone Route for Vertical scanning

« on: June 08, 2022, 01:38:04 PM »

Did you you try Agisoft's "Mission planning for complex structures" tutorial?
https://agisoft.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/31000157953

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General / Re: Oblique Camera 12mm on Wingtra Gen II

« on: February 14, 2022, 05:46:30 PM »

Darko, thank you for you info.

The settings i used are the ones that Wingtra says to use as default. Some of them are:
aperture between 4 and 5.6 (i suppose it's the 4.5)
Exposure: 1600
Exposure composition: -0.3
ISO: Auto

I tried a test project before i got your answer and i indeed tried the Frame Camera setting but I didn't enable the Rolling Shutter. I thought that the camera had a mechanical Shutter. Don't ask me why, i just forgot to check the shutter type on this camera. :-)  Maybe because the other camera i use on Wingtra is the Sony RX1R II which has a mechanical shutter.

Anyway the results are pretty good (see pic) and the accuracy is about 1cm for X,Y and 5cm for Z at 3gsd without Ground Control Points.

Thank you for pointing out about Rolling Shutter.
Another question is about the "Adaptive Camera Model Fitting". I choose to not use this feature in Alignment and on Optimising. I have not tested yet with this option ON. Do you use it or you leave it unchecked?

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General / Oblique Camera 12mm on Wingtra Gen II

« on: February 08, 2022, 12:58:48 PM »

I have Wingtra Gen II drone equipped with an Oblique Sony a6100(wide lens).

The pictures does not contain any info about Focal Length and F-Stop in exif. (all numbers are 0 when imported in Agisoft)

The camera specs state that it has 12mm lense, APS-C sensor. The focal Length is 12mm (18mm equivalent for 35mm). F-Stop is set at 4.5 in the lenses ring (no software option in camera menus).

So the questions are:
1) In Camera Calibration settings what should i choose? Is it Frame or Fish Eye?
2) Can i add this numbers (specs) in Agisoft myself and how? If yes should i add the 12mm or the 18mm equivalent to 35mm?

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General / Re: Using external drives (USB)

« on: February 02, 2022, 02:25:51 PM »

So, as I'm running out of storage capacity quite fast, here they are my questions:

Metashape indeed creates huge amount of data. (as you can see here -> https://www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=13771.0 )

One thing you can do to save huge amount of space is to "Remove Orthophotos" assuming that you do not need to do some patching after.

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Python and Java API / Re: Photoscan Module is deprecated WARNING

« on: December 07, 2021, 06:36:38 PM »

Thank you a lot for your help Paulo.

I didn't expect someone to look this up. A big THANK you.

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Python and Java API / Re: Chunk Region Control Script

« on: December 02, 2021, 11:17:41 AM »

Thank you a lot.

It loads fine now. 

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Python and Java API / Re: Photoscan Module is deprecated WARNING

« on: December 02, 2021, 11:08:19 AM »

Thank you for your answer Alexey.

I checked my scripts and none of them had this line

Code: [Select]

import PhotoScan
They all had "import Metashape"


So i'm sure that the problem is somewhere in the Collection of scripts from Geoscan (https://github.com/geoscan/geoscan_plugins)
The problem is that i cannot check all of them because there are a total of 178 folder with 441 files and almost half of them are .py files.

I did some checking in a few files but none of them contained the word Photoscan. All of them were for Metashape.

Anyway.

My question is if there is a problem with functionality or it's just a Warning message with no other effects.

Is there a problem with my version of Metashape witch is actually "Agisoft Photogrammetric Kit for Topcon" ?

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Python and Java API / Photoscan Module is deprecated WARNING

« on: December 01, 2021, 05:46:19 PM »

When i open the program i get the following Warning (in RED) in the console.

2021-12-01 16:36:25 Agisoft Photogrammetric Kit for TOPCON Version: 1.7.5 build 13229 (64 bit)
2021-12-01 16:36:25 Platform: Windows
2021-12-01 16:36:25 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor (desktop)
2021-12-01 16:36:25 CPU family: 23 model: 8 signature: 800F82h
2021-12-01 16:36:25 RAM: 63.9 GB
2021-12-01 16:36:25 OpenGL Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
2021-12-01 16:36:25 OpenGL Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
2021-12-01 16:36:25 OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 496.76
2021-12-01 16:36:25 Maximum Texture Size: 32768
2021-12-01 16:36:25 Quad Buffered Stereo: not enabled
2021-12-01 16:36:25 ARB_vertex_buffer_object: supported
2021-12-01 16:36:25 ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: supported
2021-12-01 16:36:25 To execute this script press Custom menu/Add reference altitude
2021-12-01 16:36:25 To execute this script press Custom menu/Align model or dense point cloud
2021-12-01 16:36:25 To execute this script press Custom menu/Color Model with Altitude
2021-12-01 16:36:25 To execute this script press Custom menu/Color Model with Overlap
2021-12-01 16:36:25 To execute this script press AI tools/Detect objects
2021-12-01 16:36:25 To execute this script press Custom menu/Masking by color
2021-12-01 16:36:25 To execute this script press Custom menu/Read RelativeAltitude from DJI metadata
2021-12-01 16:36:25 Warning: PhotoScan module is deprecated, use Metashape module instead
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  auto_gamma_correction
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  buffer_by_markers
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  chunk_region_setter
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  crs_uploader
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  expimp_by_marker
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  export_by_shapes
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  fast_layout
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  gnss_post_processing
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  image_channel_mixer
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  gnss_processing
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  make_masks_from_shapes
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  mesh_creator
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  shape_worker
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  plugins_configurator
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  quality_estimator
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  remove_image_duplicates
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  set_altitudes_for_shape
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  shape_worker
2021-12-01 16:36:33 imported  tab_meta_creator
2021-12-01 16:36:33 To execute this script press Custom menu/Split in chunks

If i remember correctly (it's months now) it started after installing a collection of scripts from Geoscan (https://github.com/geoscan/geoscan_plugins#readme)
Most scripts from Geoscan (but not all) work fine but a few do not work. All my other scripts from the community work fine.


Why is that and how can i fix it?

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Python and Java API / Re: Chunk Region Control Script

« on: December 01, 2021, 05:30:39 PM »

I have already done that as i have done with all other scripts but i get no custom menu for this script.

The menu appears only if i run it through the console.

When i start Metashape i get this error in console

Traceback (most recent call last):
2021-12-01 16:32:17   File "C:/Users/ANAX-UAS/AppData/Local/Agisoft/Photogrammetric Kit for TOPCON/scripts/ChunkRegionControl.py", line 246, in <module>
2021-12-01 16:32:17     dlg = ChunkRegionControl(parent)
2021-12-01 16:32:17   File "C:/Users/ANAX-UAS/AppData/Local/Agisoft/Photogrammetric Kit for TOPCON/scripts/ChunkRegionControl.py", line 12, in __init__
2021-12-01 16:32:17     self.chunk = Metashape.app.document.chunk
2021-12-01 16:32:17 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'chunk'

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Python and Java API / Re: Python scripts collection?

« on: December 01, 2021, 04:38:14 PM »

So, i tried to install the script "detect_objects.py" from https://github.com/agisoft-llc/metashape-scripts/tree/master/src but i have a problem.

When i try to run the script i get the following error

Shape layer: key=0, label=Layer, enabled=False
2021-12-01 16:19:52 Shape layer: key=1, label=Train zones, enabled=True
2021-12-01 16:19:52 Shape layer: key=2, label=Train data, enabled=True
2021-12-01 16:19:52 Shape layer: key=3, label=Objects, enabled=True
2021-12-01 16:20:11 Shape layer: key=0, label=Layer, enabled=False
2021-12-01 16:20:11 Shape layer: key=1, label=Train zones, enabled=True
2021-12-01 16:20:11 Shape layer: key=2, label=Train data, enabled=True
2021-12-01 16:20:11 Shape layer: key=3, label=Objects, enabled=True
2021-12-01 16:20:32 Using resolution 0.020156805028629442 m/pix with patch 1600x1600
2021-12-01 16:20:32 Additional neural network training expected on key=2 layer data w.r.t. key=1 layer zones
2021-12-01 16:20:32 Loading train shapes...
2021-12-01 16:20:32 1 train zones and 12 train data loaded in 0.00 sec
2021-12-01 16:20:32 Working dir: E:\- PROJECTS -\01. ANAX Projects\10. DIAFORA\Ioannina - University\- Agisoft Projects\objects_detection
2021-12-01 16:20:37 Traceback (most recent call last):
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:/Users/ANAX-UAS/AppData/Local/Agisoft/Photogrammetric Kit for TOPCON/scripts/detect_objects.py", line 1139, in <lambda>
2021-12-01 16:20:37     QtCore.QObject.connect(self.btnRun, QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"), lambda: self.process())
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:/Users/ANAX-UAS/AppData/Local/Agisoft/Photogrammetric Kit for TOPCON/scripts/detect_objects.py", line 154, in process
2021-12-01 16:20:37     self.prepair()
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:/Users/ANAX-UAS/AppData/Local/Agisoft/Photogrammetric Kit for TOPCON/scripts/detect_objects.py", line 221, in prepair
2021-12-01 16:20:37     from deepforest import utilities
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:\Program Files\Agisoft\Photogrammetric Kit Pro\python\Lib\site-packages\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport\__feature__.py", line 114, in _import
2021-12-01 16:20:37     return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:\Program Files\Agisoft\Photogrammetric Kit Pro\python\lib\site-packages\deepforest\utilities.py", line 10, in <module>
2021-12-01 16:20:37     import rasterio
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:\Program Files\Agisoft\Photogrammetric Kit Pro\python\Lib\site-packages\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport\__feature__.py", line 114, in _import
2021-12-01 16:20:37     return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:\Program Files\Agisoft\Photogrammetric Kit Pro\python\lib\site-packages\rasterio\__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
2021-12-01 16:20:37     from rasterio._base import gdal_version
2021-12-01 16:20:37   File "C:\Program Files\Agisoft\Photogrammetric Kit Pro\python\Lib\site-packages\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport\__feature__.py", line 114, in _import
2021-12-01 16:20:37     return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
2021-12-01 16:20:37 ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _base: The specified module could not be found.

I do not what is wrong and why it does not work.

Anyone installed that script and got it working?

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Python and Java API / Re: Chunk Region Control Script

« on: December 01, 2021, 02:40:39 PM »

I'm not good at scripting.

I have many scripts that load itself when i open Metashape and are added in a Custom Menu. (pic 1)
This way i open that menu and click the script i want to run.

Your script does not load automatically when i open Metashape. To make it appear in a custom menu i have to run it through console first. (pic 2).

Is it possible to make it to run automatically when i open Metashape? Can you modify it for me please?