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General / Orthophotos incorrectly projected

« on: January 15, 2020, 11:48:00 AM »

I have done two ortho flying session with minimal setup of 4 GCP over a relatively small area (core area of interest 30mx30m). I used a Mavic Pro with a mounted Parrot Sequoia for multispec and the internal camera for RGB. Processing in Metashape 1.6 worked fine and the GCPs are where they should be on both orthos. However, when I export the tifs and open them in ArcGIS, the GCP don't match the locations on the orthos anymore. It looks as if the scale of the images is completely off. Has anybody got an idea of what is going on here and how to rectify the issue?

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General / Multi-camera system option not showing

« on: January 13, 2020, 01:57:56 PM »

Metashape 1.6 Mac, import Sequioa UAV survey. When importing images from folder or folder directly, I can only choose a single camera or dynamic scene in the 'select data layout' dialogue. This does not happen under version 1.5.5 where I can select 'mullti-camera system' for the exact same data set. How can I overcome this issue?

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General / tiled model creation stuck: tex.dat file missing

« on: March 06, 2019, 04:31:34 PM »

I have been cluster processing a rather large model into a tiled model. The process is in its final 10% and I am now getting the error that a specific file (tex18.dat) is missing. I manually browsed to the location and indeed, the file is not there. Going back through the work log I can see that the file in question was successfully created and saved. All other files are also present. The files <images 18.zip> and block18.zip are also present. I would hate to cancel the process after more than 24 hours of processing and so close to completion. What went wrong and how is it possible that a file simply goes missing? Is there any way to salvage this? Processing is currently stuck in a loop because of the missing file.

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General / Network cluster machine running slow

« on: February 27, 2019, 07:14:50 PM »

I am running Network with two machines, an Alienware Aurora (GTX 1080, i7-7700K, 32GB RAM) and a Mac Pro 2013 (6 Core Xeon E5, Dual Radeon FireProD500, 48GB RAM). The Aurora is acting as a server, client and node while the Mac Pro solely acts as a node. The machines are currently aligning the cameras of a project of some 6300 photos and c. 50GCP. Accuracy is set to highest.

The Mac Pro is using its 2 AMD Radeon to full capacity whilst the CPU is hardly doing anything. RAM use is at c. 25%.
The Aurora uses 5% of its GPU and 14% CPU, RAM use is at 50%.

Processing is running now at 41.9% after just over 26 hours.

Why is the Aurora a) not using all its RAM to feed the GPU/CPU and b) why is it only using so little of its processing power?

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Feature Requests / Save GUI settings

« on: February 22, 2019, 11:44:56 AM »

How about making Metashape save specific settings such as the arrangement of columns in the Reference and Workspace panels. Every time I open pop a project to add GCP I have to re-arrange the panes to see projections and error columns.

Make networking of computers more intuitive maybe by adding a GUI to set it up and run server and nodes from within the GUI app.

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General / Network processing Windows and Mac

« on: February 20, 2019, 07:28:52 PM »

Hi,
I am trying to Network to machines, an Alienware Aurora and a Mac Pro for some cluster processing. The Aurora is acting as a server, client and node while the Mac Pro solely acts as a node. I used the very basic parameters to configure the network, only specifying the --root in the nodes and client. The root folder is an external HDD E:/[directory].

I can process data through the Alienware node but cannot get the Mac Pro to point to the correct -root. Whatever path I put in, I get the 'No such file or directory' error with the specified path appended with the E:/[directory]. What am I doing wrong?

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General / Missing image path after changing platform

« on: February 14, 2019, 05:51:54 PM »

Hi,

I have a fairly large project (6000+ images, 150GCP) that somewhat outgrew my MacPro. I copied the project to a Windows formatted external HD (E:\) (E:\Project/images/subfolder/imagexyz.jpg). When I opened the project on the new Windows machine for the first time, I had to change the paths to the images' new location on the external drive which worked fine in most instances. However, some images were not located by Metashape, even though they are in exactly the same location where MS says they are not. So when I redefined the path I pointed MS to the same location again. Worse, when I try to redefine the path for multiple images, MS doesn't automatically recognise the primary image and I have to change  and only manages to relink the primary image and ignores all selected subsequent images, even if they are in the same folder. This only happens to a series on images that are store in 2 different sub folders. However, changing their location does not help. I cannot afford to re-load the images, re-tag them and run the entire model again.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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General / Network processing Client crashes "not registered"

« on: February 11, 2019, 01:00:44 PM »

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a test network to evaluate how Agisoft's network processing works. I am running two nodes 1. MacPro (Pro academic license) and 2. Alienware Aurora (academic Pro license). Server is an iMac with running in unlicensed demo mode. Client is a MacBook Pro (trial Pro license). They are currently running off a WIFI network hosted by the MacPro. All machines are running the lates version of Metashape (1.5.1).

My problem is that as soon as I start up Metshape as a Client, it hangs and the server tells me that the Client has been disconnect because it is not registered. Thinking that it might be the trial license that is at fault, I swapped the roles of MacPro and MacBook. Now the MacBook runs fine as a node (server accepts registration) and the MacPro as a client hangs and server claims that the client is not registered. The machines actually do not crash but grind to almost a halt because they are constantly trying to connect to the server. Clearly, there must be something wrong with my setup.

I am confident that communication between the individual machines is establishes, I can see them showing up in the network monitor. 'root' is set to a directory on the iMac and is accessible by all nodes and clients with read and write permissions. The only variable I have defined on the server is the root.

I am at a loss here..

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Bug Reports / Photoscan crashes after update

« on: May 18, 2018, 10:39:02 AM »

I am working on a large landscape project (5700 photos) and generated a medium quality dense cloud using version 1.4.0. Now that I have updated to 1.4.2 the same project not only crashes Photoscan but takes down my entire system with it. I am running Photoscan Pro on a MacPro with 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM and 2 AMD FirePro500 with 3GB each. While the RAM is a bit on the low side, this configuration has not let me down so far, so I suspect there is some sort of bug in the latest
 update.