New Release: RC 1.2.1 Tarasque

Today the new RealityCapture 1.2.1 Tarasque was released. A few exiting new features are ready to be explored. You can download the latest release here.

Highlights:

• Automated workflow for transferring large datasets from RC to UE5
• Console view extended with command line
• Create command sequences and add them to the app ribbon
• Export to Sketchfab at no additional cost using PPI license 
  • (limitation 300k polygons and 1 x 4k texture)
• CLI license floating token is the same for all floating licenses
• Build expiry date extended to 5 years
• Support for colmap scenes
• Refactored UDIM export

Selected new features:

• New smoothing style that works on peaks
• New simplifying options
• Faster depth-map calculation during the Preview Model reconstruction
• Export material information when exporting FBX models
• Upload to Cesium ion through Map Wizard
• Added relative alignment precision options
• Bright background option
• Automatic brightness and contrast enhancement in 2D view
• Sort control points
• Select (non)registered images
• The Display contours option in the app ribbon
• Show component information in the 2D view
• Component name as a suffix for control points imported with a component
• License does not have to be allocated for a certain period of time
• Standard license activation can be deactivated in the application settings
• Several changes in reports
• Signed reports are exported for free

New CLI commands:

• Progress redirected to Command Prompt with printProgress
• Export selected components with two new commands: exportSelectedComponentDir, exportSelectedComponentFile
• Detect features with the command detectFeatures
• Export snapshots with the command exportSelectedCamerasSnapshots
• Print report lines into Command Prompt with printReport
• Delete control points, control point measurements, and distance constraints
• Set the image layer to an image or to multiple images with setImageLayer or setImagesLayer
• Remove the image layer with removeImageLayer
• Various editing options for selections

Selected fixes:

• Map Wizard refractor
• Exported FBX files now have smoothing groups defined
• Cesium 3D Tiles export changed to allow disabling GZip compression and triangle strip generation for improved viewer compatibility
• Texture names specify UDIM tile number last
• Models uploaded to Sketchfab are unlit
  Added option to disable density equalization for simplifying

Minor fixes:

• Fixed artifacts in texturing from images with masks
• Several Depth-Map calculation fixes
  Several cut-by-box fixes
• Several RCNode fixes
• Several small fixes in CLI
• Several SharpnessMap fixes 
• Several Import/Export fixes