Duncan Baird
Nathan Dunne
Sept 18, 2024
Sept 30, 2024
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue where new users could not activate their license keys
Results
Improved Normals results when light offset from camera is large
GUI Changes
Added 3D viewer for previewing light positions
Added storage estimate for Preparation stage of Job
Bugfixes
Addressed an issue with how backface were handled in the Alembic file that could cause a crash
Addressed an issue with how orientations of RAW files were handled
Addressed an issue where the row highlighting for a new light system was not working
Added ability to deactivate license for moving to another machine
Enabled experimental 2D processing
Enabled option to process 3D scans at 16k on powerful enough systems
Added ability to specify mesh mask for 3D processing
Added option to choose between JPG and EXR for photogrammetry images
JPG
EXR
Results Improvements
New algorithm for handling low UV resolution processing
Addressed a backend issue that would sometimes cause an error to hang indefinitely
Addressed a UI scaling issue with some Windows settings
Addressed an issue that would cause errors to not report correctly during the preparation stage
Addressed an issue where the colour space for normals in PNG and JPG was mistakingly sRGB
PNG
sRGB
GUI changes
New queue system
Added ability to create multiple jobs and then run them in sequence
Queue supports pausing jobs and skipping job to then continue to next in queue
Added configuration button for handling user input after job creation
Added details panel to see more meta information for a job
Added ability to select multiple texture resolutions when configuring a job
Added button to see license information & details for Marso
Added ability to keep intermediary files in Application Settings
Added storage utilisation chart to Application Settings
Results improvements
Added a filtering system to remove artefacts in scans with non optimal distributions
Bugfixes:
Addressed crash when attempt to calibrate some Phase One RAW image files
Addressed issue where some submodules would hang at the end of execution rather than closing normally
Added progress bar to indicate sub-step progress for running job
Added ability to interrupt and resume from last checkpoint
Added scan mode indicator to job row
Fixed an issue where some errors would cause the program to hang and not report the error
Added clear error for when updater/installer is not present
Updates to backend
Improvement in processing speed (~1.2-2.0 x)
Improvement in storage utilisation (~2.0 x)
GUI changes:
Added display for details of currently selected light system
Added display of reconstruction tool to job row alongisde resolution
Fixed an issue with the results button not always opening the folder
Fixed an issue where the uv bleed was not applying to the normals output texture
Fixed an issue with the build system which would cause Marso to not run on some systems due to a non bundled dependency
Fixed camera ordering issue for some Reality Capture alembics
Fixed issue with UV margin algorithm for very dark textures
Fixed ST map loading for uncommon size combinations
Added and improved UV margin algorithm
UX improvements
Step reporting during processing
Links to help pages for calibration
UV Resolution can be set by user
Enabled removing materials
Enabled resizing on UI windows
Added UV margin to Output Textures
Photogrammetry images output at default brightness
Marso checks for new versions on launch
Reality Capture support
Verbose logging from UI
Option to control display brightness during calibration process
Improvements to crash handling
Support for rotated cameras (i.e. portrait and landscape)
Database Upgrade
Preprocessing accounts for rotation parameter in Raw data
Removed dependency on Agisoft Pro installation
Several under the hood improvements to output textures
Performance improvements to some modules
Support for photogrammetry not solving all cameras in a scene
Support for varying numbers of lights used in scanning light system
Added ability for user to specify the grey value of their calibration target
Added some security improvements
Added support for mobile scans
24.4.1+