Posts by Mische

I tried various settings without really knowing what I was doing...

In the end, I went with the MCMC version because, in this case, the reflections on the ceiling and floor seemed clearer.

Hi jeromebg
There is an info button with various details about each scene (right below the scene buttons).

The model is trained in LichtFeld-Studio Version 0.5.1

Settings:

• Method: MCMC
• Iterations: 52 200
• Max Gaussians: 3 000 000 (1 000 000 for mobile)
• SH Degree: 0
• Sparsity: true

Filesize: 19 018 KB (mobile: 6 332 KB)

I tried to keep the file size as small as possible...

PMT Gallery

A 3D Gallery modeled in Blender, with a direct comparison of three different 3D rendering technologies in krpano:
Gaussian Splats, threeJS and Depthmapped Panoramas.

The intro was created using Panimator.
You can start two additional camera movements by clicking the button in the top-left corner.
A small butterfly is flying around the smaller room. If it has just landed on Tuur or me again, you can make it fly again.

PMT-Gallery

I can't see the images. “Access denied”

Hello!

I removed my WordPress installation last year and unfortunately lost some tutorials and links in the process...

However, the new documentation is up to date, and the Detailed Texture tutorial has already been rewritten.

Detailed Texture Tutorial

PCA-Docu/Dollhouse

I hope this helps for now; if you have any questions, feel free to ask them here.

Best regards, Mische

Hello,

Thank you for providing the example! That makes it much easier to explain. 😃

The _TOUR and _DEPTH models are exactly the same. This means that they are the same size and the ORIGIN is at the camera location. The only difference is that in the DEPTH models, the rotation is reversed and the model has been moved to 0/0/0 (which means they are lower in your example). This allows the DEPTH models to be exported as STL and then match the corresponding panoramas.

The appropriate values for this can then be determined either at the pano_HANDLE or at the TOUR_models.

I hope this was helpful!

Best regards, Mische

Hello,
I'm not sure what you mean and where exactly the problem lies.

Can you share a link to the tour and/or send me the Blender file?

Best regards, Mische

Yes! Great update!
Okay, I'm a little late to the party..
..I haven't played around with it yet because I wanted to create a few splats first.
Now I have a few and am looking forward to using the update!

It would be nice if we could load an additional collision model (.stl/.DEPTH) for the scenes in addition to the splats.
I've seen Tuur's solution with two krpano layers, but this would be much more convenient.

I'm not sure what you mean.
The input video must be equirectangular. The video is then loaded into the world background and the render camera then renders rectangular sections.

Hello,

You can add hotspot placeholders in Blender and then read out the required values. It is also possible to output preformatted XML code.

Hello!

Since you write that you have already created a “Dollhouse”, I assume that you have already successfully exported a model with UV layout and a texture.

Please also take a look at this tutorial. There I also show how to integrate the model into a krpano scene.

“Render” and “MakeExportReady” have nothing to do with the Dollhouse, but the error message should not appear anyway, I suspect an unclean installation.

Please proceed as follows:

1. Deactivate AND uninstall PCA.
2. Close Blender and restart it(!)
3. Then install the latest version (I will send it to you via PM)

Hello!

I am currently experimenting with Gaussian splatting for the first time.. To do this, I have written an add-on for Blender that allows you to extract images from 360° videos.

It is very easy to use and many settings can be adjusted as needed.

Here is a short introductory video:

It seems to be a useful workflow and I can't wait to make more 360° videos.
I hope there will be less wind in the next few days..

You can buy UnPano-Renderer on GUMROAD:

UnPano Renderer

UnPano Renderer is an add-on for Blender.With Unpano Renderer, you can extract multiple images from 360° videos. This can be very useful for photogrammetry or…

dermische360.gumroad.com

I could not reproduce the exact error, but here are a few ideas what could have gone wrong.

For this update it is very important to completely uninstall the old version. Just turning it off with the checkbox is not enough.

Click “uninstall” or “remove” in the add-on menu.

Then close Blender and start it again.

The name of the ZIP file must be “panocamadder.zip”.

Install PCA as an add-on, not as an extension.

PanoCamAdder 2.3 has been released

The add-on has been heavily revised for this release. It contains some BUG-fixes, many small improvements and some new very useful features!

NEWs

• PanoGroup materials: For mixing materials (helpful for panocam positioning).
• Auto updater: Install upcoming releases in the addon-preferences.
• PanoCam Importer. Batch import multiple panocams at once (JSON needed).
• Protect Vertexgroups: Exclude different vertexgroups from any PCA-material operation.
• No more console output! The output is written to a txt file in the text-editor.
• Optional JSON and PCi-JSON output.
• Output 3D-model hotspots: location, rotation and scale values (MESH and EMPTY)
• PanoRender: Outputs more values and optionally PCi-JSON.
• More quick viewport settings.
• Addon Preferences: Define basic outputs for different hotspot types and more.
• UI improvements: Some names and descriptions, layout, tool-tips, few icons..
• Many small improvements. For example, backface culling and bounding box for image hotspots; If no name is specified for image hotspots, the image name is used; Creating a TOUR folder is now optional..

FIXes

• hotspot-color output was slightly wrong.
• hotspot-alpha is now only visible/printable if it has a pca-hotspot material.
• Create Depthmap (old MakeExportReady) has created doubles if the depth/tour-model already exists.
• internal PCA-renaming (remove/add '_HANDLE' and so on) was sometimes wrong.
• JSON output: "Scene" was not lowercase.

New Documentation:

der-mische.de/pca-docu

..the tutorials will be updated bit by bit...

Buy/Update

PanoCamAdder2.3 costs 15€. All future updates are free of charge.

GUMROAD

The upgrade from 2.0+ is free of charge. You should have received an email from GUMROAD. Click on the “View Content” button to download the update.

IMPORTANT:

For this update it is necessary to uninstall the old version first!

All future updates are free and can be easily installed via the add-on preferences.

Donations are welcome:

PayPal

Best regards, Michael

Hello,
I have noticed that the values for depthmap.align are not displayed as expected with krpano 1.22.4. With version1.21 it works.

Works:
PCA2example

Does not work (click the purple hotspots):

PCA2example krp22

take a look here:

PCA+1.7 Dollhouse - DerMische

In this tutorial I want to show, how to add a dollhouse to a virtual-tour with PanoCamAdder+ 1.7

der-mische.de

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Is it possible to combine PCI and PCA? Made as a plugin;

I would like to leave it at two individual add-ons. This way new users can test if the import works for them before they decide to use PCA.

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really nice updates for panoCamAdder and threejs I am yet to find time to really explore this as I want to. Out of curiosity (and I am guessing the answer is no but I'll ask anyways) any plans of having panocamadder for maya as well? cheers

Thanks but I can't do that as I don't use MAYA myself.

Best regards, Mische

PanoCamAdder2.2

Output of values for light hotspots (threeJS plugin)

Works with:

• Sunlight
• Spotlight
• Pointlight

All values can be easily changed in the addon:

A note on the intensity: Blender and threeJS calculate the intensity of the light very differently. A direct conversion is not easily possible. The output values for the intensity are therefore inaccurate and may have to be adjusted manually.

The update is free of charge for all customers who have purchased PCA2+.
You should have received an email. If you have not received an email, please let me know.

Best wishes for 2025,
Mische

I'm glad to hear that it works for you!
Would you like to say where you got the model and the data from?

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Can materials be automatically associated? Coordinates are set correctly, but textures are not;

Yes, that works. The JSON file must be in the same folder as the images.
Here is a screencast:

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Is there a limit on the number of characters?

It was mistakenly limited to only 10.000 characters. Now up to 500.000 characters can be entered. I hope that will be enough.

Best regards, Mische