Enhancement request on behalf of customer
Product: ReCap Pro
Function: Project Export
Feature: E57 exported from Recap (structured) do not properly encode spherical images
Request:
Unfortunately regardless of who is right or wrong, it simply does not work in the reality of our business and Recap is not usable as a product in a meaningful work flow for us as of now without a compatible E57 export. Great potential in terms of the product, but the data is locked up in Recap for us and we cannot get it out of it for our use.
Regarding BLK360, that's good to hear, but the simple fact is still that given the way that Recap does it exports, we will not be able to export the panorama images with pose information! So we cannot use them with other software as we intended to. In short, this would eliminate any use of the BLK360 for us and may require us to cancel our order. There is also no EXR / RAW type panorama export from what we have seen in the current version so that's not a feasible export option either (on top of those files loosing the camera pose information). The end product of Recap for us is not viewing panoramas in Recap. Hope that makes sense.
You mentioned Faro. Faro Scene's E57 export has the exact same issue and will loose this information in other industry software. They do have an E57 with image tags on the E57 standard site as the Faro example, but Scene itself also misses image tags.
As a side note: Faro Scene does support exporting panoramas, but then the pose information goes missing unfortunately.
At least one can load the panoramas into a photo or paint type application with Faro.
The E57 export with image tags would be the most urgent one to unblock us.
The ability to export a FBX including cameras and mage back planes, plus a layered projection shader referring to all back images and projection cameras included, would also greatly help to work with the data. We could then load resulting meshes together with the cameras in Maya and Mudbox for texture painting. We need to fix the model with mesh editing/modeling tools and then re-project the spherical images as well as other images as textures.
Currently, there is no way we are aware of to get the panoramas exported to Maya. Do you know of any way?
Also support for point clouds in Maya would help a lot as the modelling tools are quite good (snap to point).
This type of missing functionality causes us to have to use a lot of other software in the workflow unfortunately..
As a side note, the raw/EXR type panorama export in Recap with e.g. camera pose information in text files (land xml, bundler, etc.) would be helpful as well (to export all spherical cameras at once). There is several tools that can load bundler tools. And EXR would allow to get the RAW images with multiple exposures into programs like Photoshop.
Thanks again. Hope this helps as feedback of how to make Recap an even more powerful tool!
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