Heightmap and NormalMap generation

[gateway]

Is their a way to generate a heightmap and normal map out of the object, landscape so it could be brought into 3d package or a 3d game engine and have it generate its polys for the best optimized mesh value?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello gateway,

You can use Export Depth option from the Photos pane context menu to export diffuse, depth and normal maps for the selected cameras.

[gateway]

Hello gateway,

You can use Export Depth option from the Photos pane context menu to export diffuse, depth and normal maps for the selected cameras.

This spits out each picture as a normal, depth and diffused, I would like to generate one big one out of the aligned photos.  Any way to do this?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello gateway,

From the Professional edition you can export Digital Elevation Model, but it required model referencing in any coordiante system (either local or geographic).

[gateway]

Hello gateway,

From the Professional edition you can export Digital Elevation Model, but it required model referencing in any coordiante system (either local or geographic).

hmm crap, is their some reason this cant be spit out as a full map w/o a coordinate system?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello gateway,

You can try to do so after inputting the following line in the Console pane:

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PhotoScan.app.document.chunk.transform.matrix = PhotoScan.app.document.chunk.transform.matrix

[Exorbitart]

I googled this topic. There is still no option out for it?.. after 5 years of this request. It would be such a big help to export detailed depth and normal maps as textures too!

Anything in future planned to integrate it?

[Mak11]

Google failed you. Normal Map & Ambiant Occlusion baking are available in Metashape 1.6 (no Height map yet).

Mak