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Feature Requests / Saving projects with all photos and photo groups included

« on: January 06, 2020, 04:30:15 PM »

When I finish my project or when I want to move it to another computer, I end up manually checking if I have all the necessary files included and if the paths are correctly saved.


 I would love to have an option to easily save the whole thing in in one folder. It would help when:
1.  I want to easily archive the project and save it onto a different drive knowing that if I ever come back to it, it will just work.
2. I want to move the whole project to another computer.



What I meen by "the whole thing" is:

1. Metashape project file and all the required files for all chunks (as it already is).
2. All photos used in the project (by copying them from their original location to a subfolder "photos". There should also be an option to remove the photos from their original locations, so there are no duplicates left).
3. All paths to the new location of the photographs.
4. All information about photo groups.
5. In case the photos are extracted from a video, there should also be an option of including the original videos.
6. Everything else that you might think would also be needed....

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Feature Requests / Romove disabled cameras option

« on: January 06, 2020, 04:16:14 PM »

Some times I end up disabling many cameras for various reasons - too many to begin with, too blury, too little details... Anyway, when I finish processing my projects I would like an option to permanently remove all the cameras that are already disabled, because these are the cameras I do not need any more. Then I can make my archived projects so much more optimised.

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Feature Requests / GPU processing - on/of switch in the process window

« on: January 06, 2020, 04:09:21 PM »

With every version you introduce a GPU support for more and more processes and this is great. However, sometimes they produce results different than expected. Although this is usually fixed later on with new versions, the easiest way so far to temporarily avoid problems has been manually switching off GPU in options. But is not the best solution, as it swiches off GPU for all processes, including theones that work much faster on GPU. So please please add to each GPU-accelerated process a tick box "use GPU" which would be ticked by default if GPU acceleration is switch on in options. But when I wanted to I would be able to easily switch GPU off for a specific process only. Also, please add this option for each process in batch processing, so I would be able to created a queue that is mostly GPU-accelerated with some exceptions for processes that currently work better on CPU.

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Feature Requests / Pins to lock photos, console and jobs panels

« on: January 06, 2020, 03:56:52 PM »

Hi. Every time I mask something I end up accidently closing the bottom panels. I understand that some people may want to move them from time to time or close them. However, please introduce a pin at the bottom on each panel. When the panel is pinned, it will be impossible to close. If someone wants to close it or move it, they have to un-pin it first.

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Bug Reports / 1.6 -new GPU texture generation takes over twice longer than in previous version

« on: January 02, 2020, 03:07:36 AM »

Just updated to the newest build 1.6. The chunks that needed 40 - 60 minutes for texture generation in the previous versions, now need over 2 hours. For some reason GPU accelerated process works slower than non-GPU before. I have Nvidia Geforce 980M and so far with every update all GPU-accelerated processes have always worked much faster than non-GPU. This time it is different. Why?

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Feature Requests / Reduce the number of photos (both Standard and Pro)

« on: July 29, 2018, 06:56:27 PM »

Hi. Sometimes I use 1000 of photos and when I see the sparse cloud I know that my model will look great and I do not need so many photos. I would probably do with 500 and it would decrese the time needed for processing.

So in that case instead of manually disabling every second photo, I would love to have a button that will open a window and let me select every second (third/forth/fifth.. etc.) photo for me, so I can disable them quickly. This would be very helpful for projects where I start with over 4000 photographs.