Changelog

• Features

  • [NEW] Photogrammetry images brightness can be adjusted before they are generated, as well as their filetype and output directory.

  • [NEW] Jobs that have already had photogrammetry images generated can regenerate them using the Develop tab in the configure dialog.

  • Added an ‘Export ZIP’ button to make it easier to collect data for support when jobs fail

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed jobs reporting Failed if the user directory contains non-ascii characters, now supports most latin languages.

  • Improved readability of some error messages

• Workflow

  • Added a new check to processing to ensure all raw files in a job have consistent exposure settings (shutter speed, aperture, ISO), the process will error now if the values are not consistent

• Performance

  • Improved the GPU utilisation of one of the processing modules, resulting in a notable performance improvement

• Features

  • Marso and Updater are now signed with a self signed certificate (M-XR Ltd)

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where the default type filter for the ST Map explorer window would be not set correctly for RealityCapture

  • Fixed an issue where the ESC key would not work in the photography calibration rectangle selection window, now you can back out of the program back to the main GUI

  • Fixed an issue where the extension dropdown list would not refresh when creating a second job with the same raw images folder as the first job

  • Fixed an issue where during deletion of a job if a user very quickly selected another job during the deletion it would remove the newly selected job from the list but leave the original

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed Marso being unable to start due to unnecessary dependency

• Workflow

  • Photogrammetry images can be produced without creating an Exposure Params preset

  • Exposure Params Preset and Light System can be re-assigned in the configure dialog rather than being fixed after job creation

  • Jobs can now be sorted by most recent interaction

  • License key will be populated on start-up if installed with the updater

  • Marso logs will now roll-over daily instead of creating a single massive log file

• Bugfixes

  • Exposure Preset creation would hang if started while a job was running

N.B. Some Finished jobs may need to be re-configured before they can be queued again, if they were created on a previous version of Marso

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where some RAW image files would fail to be read correctly

• Results

  • Added new experimental Specular workflow as an optional output

  • Added new filtering to reduce artifacts from photogrammetry reconstruction

• Performance

  • Reduced storage utilisation by 40%-90% (depending on input data size)

  • Time to process scan reduced by 35%-75% (depending on input data size)

• Workflow

  • The prep stage is no longer required if the photogrammetry data is available

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where changes may be lost in settings window

  • Fixed an issue where parts of the GUI could not be resized

• 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

• GUI Changes

  • 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

• Results Improvements

  • New algorithm for handling low UV resolution processing

• Bugfixes

  • 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

• 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

• GUI changes

  • 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

• Bugfixes

  • 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

• Bugfixes:

  • 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

• Bugfixes:

  • 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

• Bugfixes

• Added UV margin to Output Textures

• Photogrammetry images output at default brightness

• Marso checks for new versions on launch

• Reality Capture support

• UX improvements

  • 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