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General / Re: [SOLVED]why search for matches withing masked area?

« on: December 13, 2025, 10:01:30 AM »

Ok! I was able to orient ALL 8416  cameras! WOW

I've upwards and downwards but I did only align upwards sincen I was using the linear mode and while it may have aligneda ll there would be spatial missalignments for sure

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General / Re: [SOLVED]why search for matches withing masked area?

« on: December 13, 2025, 12:07:53 AM »

I was able to finally align the images. It seems like it needed even more density of images. I thought I was chocking the system but it was actually opposite.

This is a 7Km capture so not sure if it will hold the whole track. But the initial testings are now promissing.

Aligned both with sequential and unordered (can´t recall exact name)

see attached

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General / Re: [SOLVED]why search for matches withing masked area?

« on: December 12, 2025, 01:46:58 PM »

the mask seems to be working now, besides the alignment breaks

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General / [SOLVED]why search for matches withing masked area?

« on: December 11, 2025, 08:46:20 PM »

EDIT-->  I did not see there is a how maks operates in the align menu. Regardless seeems to have no effect. I keep doing tests.



As you can see in the attached image, the  car area is target for matches. Despite it is masked. Should that area be off limits for matches of any kind?.

I'm trying to align cameras with a 360 camera mounted on a car and alignment sudendly breaks in perfectly matchable section with a lot of matchiable elements ignored. To my knowedge there are no means to manually add matches between images in the standard version....

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Bug Reports / colmap camera exports in pro version

« on: October 20, 2025, 11:24:59 PM »

edit, now I tried again and both give error, so I'm not really sure if the problem is in postshoot or metashape itself..

Hello.

I'm testing the pro version wtih the 30 day trial enabled.

when exporting camera to build splats, I export them in colmap format.

It works great in standard version but if I export from pro version I get "failed to load camera poses: Invalid  COLMAP database format.
If I open that exact same project in standard version and re export , all is ok, so seems like there is a bug in teh pro version

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General / [SOLVED]GPS in exif ignored?

« on: October 19, 2025, 12:18:44 AM »

SOLUTION:
standard does not read gps in exif

I installed the demo of professional and as I import I can see the road drawn by all the images due to them bein correctly positioned.

Pro is way too expensive for me :\

Mistery is solved tho.


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Hello.


I'm a casual user. I've the standard version.

My previous version was 2.0.1 and I had not touched much since.

I was testing the latest stable releas and I was noticing it has much improved for datasets of a camera on top of a car, when prior would loss track soon after, now seems able to go much much furhter and do not lose scale etc..

the thing is that I had one dataset taken with a virb camera that had gps on board. So each picture is geotaged.

I recall in previous version when importing all the 6K pictures would simply align in the space but now they don´t as gps data seems ignored.

GPS information: -
GPSLatitudeRef - N
GPSLatitude - 41  35  8.620078 (41.585728)
GPSLongitudeRef - E
GPSLongitude - 1  59  22.495548 (1.989582)
GPSAltitudeRef - Above Sea Level
GPSAltitude - 359.99 m

this is the data in the exif,

I surfed the menus and found nothing,

cheers

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General / Short term pro license or command line for Standard version

« on: June 02, 2024, 01:06:22 AM »

Hi.

I think the jump between tiers is too high. I own the standard version, has a legit price. The only thing I miss is a command line or a better batching tool.

As of now I only use to mesh point clouds and bake normal maps into the low resolution mesh. Ressult is 10/10.


The thing is that from time to time I've to process multiple files and doing so manually is an absolute pain because computing normals and meshing the desne scan clouds in high quality takes very long.


Back in the days I did the trial of the pro, only to try the command line option and with a Python script I was able to do this task gracefully. But paying 3K+€ for a batching option is waaaay to much.

Should be an option wether to have pro access for days/weeks/month or a make the batching be able to work with folders not only with the active chunk. Or make python command line an extra for the Standard,

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Feature Requests / Import point cloud without normals compute

« on: December 14, 2023, 01:15:03 PM »

Hi.

Ocasionally I need to recolor a mesh using the point cloud that was used originally, but this time the point cloud has received some color corrections in Cloud Compare.

The import process takes very long in big data files of several GB. For a color transfer I believe normals would not be needed so my request would be to add the option checkbox to import a point cloud without computing the normals to have a quick loading instead fo 20-30 minute wait.

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Feature Requests / Re: Gaussian Splatting

« on: October 09, 2023, 03:14:57 PM »

Hi! You can use script to export camera images and camera alignment and after that use them in gaussian splatting.

Thanks a lot!!

My main issue is to align images, I guess uses Colmap under the hood, an my datasets seem to particularly not owrk nicely in there. I've 3-4 weeks of intense work in other topics but definitelly will try the script!

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Feature Requests / Gaussian Splatting

« on: September 23, 2023, 05:50:46 PM »

Hello,

Do you plan to introduce hability to generate Gaussian Splatting?

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Feature Requests / Re: Export model autonaming

« on: May 25, 2023, 11:49:18 AM »

I did not know that, tx, but still the chunk name, when you load a point cloud does not change I would love to have the mesh exported with the same exact thame the mesh has inside the chunk, which is the correct name derived from the source .las point cloud.

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Bug Reports / Re: Cancel fbx model export--> freeze

« on: May 25, 2023, 11:38:46 AM »

I'll check like when I've a dead time like going to lunch be the time I killed the program the cancel attemp had been running like for 25minutes.

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Bug Reports / Cancel fbx model export--> freeze

« on: May 24, 2023, 05:56:23 PM »

Hi,

If I accidentally export a very high face count model, like 23M into FBX and I cancel the save, it does not cancel the save it keeps going, not sure if it keeps saving or just stalls but it won´t cancel.

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Feature Requests / Export model autonaming

« on: May 24, 2023, 05:54:59 PM »

Hi,

It would be very convenient if when exporting the mesh instead of blank name it had the same exact name that the mesh has inside the chunk.

Keep int mind that some of us are meshing point cloud scans that are already named so having the name already in place would be very convenient.

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Bug Reports / [python] Metashape.Metashape.PointCloud' object has no attribute 'points'

« on: May 18, 2023, 10:33:24 AM »

Hello,

I think there may be a bug since I'm trying to get the count of points in a .las file and I'm getting this error.

    points = point_cloud.points #collection of points
AttributeError: 'Metashape.Metashape.PointCloud' object has no attribute 'points'

that is what It is printed,

and poitn cloud is defined as 

point_cloud = chunk.point_cloud #current cloud

and is properly read since I get the logs on screen.

I checked the forums and the code seems corrrect, I checked python reference just in case this had changed, yet seems correct

"class PointCloud.Points
Collection of 3D points in the point cloud"

Could you please check?

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