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General / Processing Hung up

« Last post by dsmapping on July 05, 2025, 04:52:01 AM »

I am having issues with the newest version of Metashape. I am trying to process a job with less than 500 images and it is stuck on generating depth maps. It has been on 20% for 7 hours. I am using Metashape version 2.2.1. Here are my computer's specs

Processor   Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K   3.20 GHz
Installed RAM   128 GB (128 GB usable)
Device ID   AE267FEE-8EA2-4901-B685-BC93AF0A601A
Product ID   00355-61030-56959-AAOEM
System type   64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch   Touch support with 10 touch points

GPU is an Nvidia RTX 5080


Why would it be taking so long?

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Feature Requests / Re: HEIC image format

« Last post by Paulo on July 05, 2025, 02:00:00 AM »

Hi all,

attached is metadata extracted with ExifTool from a 24 Mpix iPhone 16 Pro Max back triple camera 6.765mm f/1.78 HEIC image.

It seems to have depth data so Metashape support of such format could be very useful  for model construction..

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General / Re: Custom Geoid - Local Network processing

« Last post by Alexey Pasumansky on July 04, 2025, 02:33:12 PM »

Hello Guillaumeb89,

Please try 2.2.1 build 20641 - there were some fixes related to the use of compound coordinate systems, maybe you are experiencing the bug that has been already fixed.

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General / Re: Custom Geoid - Local Network processing

« Last post by Guillaumeb89 on July 04, 2025, 02:25:40 PM »

Hi Alexey,

And thanks a lot for your interest in my issue, the version is 2.2.1 build 20019

For each node, all the geoids are stored in Appdata/Local/Agisoft/Metashape Pro/geoids has shown in the attached picture.

For each node, a custom coordinate system including the corresponding geoid has been made with an identical name, and a identifcal geoid path, even on the server.

I'll try to put the geoids on the location you mentionned,

best regards,

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General / Re: Coordinate Systems

« Last post by Alexey Pasumansky on July 04, 2025, 12:20:33 PM »

Hello Dieter,

If you have the coordinates of the laser scans in UTM projection, then you should choose the corresponding geographic coordinate system on laser scans import. Local coordinates option is recommended when laser scans are not georeferenced.

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General / Re: Custom Geoid - Local Network processing

« Last post by Alexey Pasumansky on July 04, 2025, 11:44:18 AM »

Hello Guillaumeb89,

Can you please specify Metashape version (including the build number) that you are using and the OS installed?

Usually one of two options should work:
- have required geoid in /geoids/ subfolder of Metashape Pro installation directory on each node,
- have geoid embed to the project file itself via Tools Menu -> Geoids dialog.

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Python and Java API / Web document for Python API

« Last post by howcanoewang on July 03, 2025, 10:32:22 AM »

Thanks first for providing the powerful Python API to match the batch processing work more easily, and also the detailed PDF for API documentation to guide how to use that python API.

However, as mentioned in previous posts, https://www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=16236.0, using PDF rather than web API framework is sometimes not reading and checking friendly. Many packages and tools provides interactive web-based documentation for easier check, for example:

1. https://colmap.github.io/pycolmap/index.html#api
2. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/realityscan-mobile/realityscan-documentation

I am wondering if Metashape officially has plan to maintain or release a web-based API documentation for easier usage? If not, personally would like to contribute making such a web-based API documentation. But I am curies about if there is any copyright risk if do so? Here are some options:

[1] Release an open-source conversion tool that generate a website from official PDF only with code, users can generate a local website on their own PC and browser locally.
[2] Hosted the converted website on some public website (e.g. readthedocs, or github pages) using the tool in [1]
[3] Providing different language translations for [2] by LLM models

For user convenience, its increased but also increase the Infringement risk, I am wondering at which level is the most proper way. Also, Is it possible to obtain official authorization to carry out this action?

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General / Re: Threadripper 5995 vs 7995 (and some other build questions)

« Last post by Corensia on July 03, 2025, 10:17:32 AM »

Hey Niklas, the project was several years ago so.... I went back into the archives to check and apparently my memory failed me.

The project had a total of 120k images BUT we processed them ~10k at a time, I believe for time efficiency purposes in case it crashes. We processed orthos in medium, and 3D models in high but texturing was only done in 16k because the model wasn't actually a deliverable and just a reference/testing on our part. Haven't had similar massive projects since so I guess I don't have much help for your 30k project. Sorry for the misunderstanding!

It was during that project when we decided against getting a Threadripper based on data we saw.

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General / Coordinate Systems

« Last post by Dieter on July 03, 2025, 09:12:48 AM »

I have a project with the following requirements:

It involves a tower with interior and exterior footage. The exterior was flown with an RTK drone, while interior 3D laser scans and additional manual photos were taken.

I calculated the laser scans in an external program and then imported them into Metashape using their UTM coordinates with german geoid, setting the group to fixed.
According to the instructions, I defined the laser scans as local coordinates, so the laser scans are defined in the local system but with their UTM coordinates.
Afterwards, I aligned the manual photos of the interior shots to these laser scans.

Additionally, I computed the exterior footage in a second chunk using WGS84 system.

On the facade there are control points, which were also calculated in the UTM system using tachymetric surveying.


So I currently have:
- Drone with WGS84 coordinates
- Laser scans with UTM coordinates defined as local system
- Manual photos alligned to the laserscans with UTM coordinates defined as local system
- control coints in the UTM-System


I then merged the two chunks through the control points.

So far, everything worked flawlessly, now I want to balance the entire project, using the fixed scans from the interior and the image coordinates from the drone's exterior footage and the control points.

This does not work. No matter how I set the coordinate systems, I always get an error message. The only option is to leave all settings on the local system, but then I can't use the drone images outside as control points.

What did I do wrong, or how can I still avoid the problem now?


Dieter

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Bug Reports / Re: alignCameras single network node if keep keypoints and reset alignment = No

« Last post by andyroo on July 03, 2025, 01:28:17 AM »

Just had a colleague ask me if I knew a way to have more than one node process if you're doing a partial realign, or adding to existing alignment, so I pointed them to this thread and figured I'd bump.