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Release notes for ArcGIS Reality Studio 2024.3

Each release of ArcGIS Reality Studio includes fixes for bugs that were reported to Esri Technical Support. The bugs that were fixed are reported in the Issues Addressed list.

Issues Addressed list for ArcGIS Reality Studio 2024.3.1

  • Greatly reduced disk space usage by switching from .las to .laz format for point cloud results.

  • Much faster runtimes when adding images from blob storage; at least 4 times faster.

  • The Get Heights tool functionality with World Terrain Elevation as a source is much faster now.

  • Improved memory management for large alignment projects.

  • Improved experience when measuring manual tie points by ensuring the image measurement tool always focuses on the current best-guess point location in the image.

  • When working with images on the cloud, the alignment process could hang indefinitely if the connection to the cloud storage is lost. This is now prevented by aborting after a set of retries.

  • Improved mixed visualization states in the Visualization Tree. Gray eye icons are always visible in these cases where some elements of the group are visible and others are not.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the application to exit with an error when the Cameras tab of the Quality Assurance tool was opened.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the creation of the Alignment Report if only a subset of camera sessions was used.

  • Fixed an issue that changed the Waterbody from Coarse to Precise when changes were applied from the Project Tree instead of accessing the pane.

  • Improved the pausing mechanism for Dynamic Ortho. Users no longer need to wait several seconds before clicking pause.

  • Fixed the reported processing time in the process manager, ensuring that individual steps accurately sum up to the overall alignment processing time.

  • Enabled retry for failed Dynamic Ortho creations.

  • Fixed a GUI issue when working with certain combinations of English and Arabic locales.

  • Faster automatic tie point generation when working with local .tif, .jpg and .png image files.

  • Fixed an issue that could result in missing data during a step in the reconstruction processing.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented processing Alignments for datasets with image overlaps over 90%.

  • Improved validation of geometry, preventing geometries without polygons from being used as input to alignments and reconstructions.

  • Fixed an issue that could lead to the failure of a reconstruction task if the Temporary Processing directory contained whitespace characters.

  • Fixed an issue that in rare cases could lead to an assertion error during the generation of True Orthos.

New default rendering engine

Starting with this release, the default rendering engine used when installing Reality Studio will be DirectX12. This brings a boost in processing performance and stability. When updating from a previous version, it will keep the previously selected rendering engine. Follow the steps to change the rendering engine manually:

  1. Select Project from the toolbar.

  2. From the menu, select Options.

    The Options window opens.

  3. In the Display section, within the Rendering engine group, select DirectX 12.

  4. Click OK.

Changes are saved and Reality Studio will now use the selected rendering engine.

Improvements for ArcGIS Reality Studio 2024.3.0

  • Added support for tif images stored using the TIFF file extension

  • Reworked image status check, resulting in a faster import of images

  • Reduced file duplication during export of reconstruction results, which also improved performance

  • Reality Studio detects now if a geometry has been edited and allows you to apply the changes throughout the project

  • Finished tasks are sorted starting from the most recently completed task

  • The globe pane remains closed when using Reality Studio in contributing/monitoring mode. This allows for better use of hardware resources and improves overall processing efficiency.

  • The landing page can now be navigated using only keyboard shortcuts

  • The number of decimal positions has been increased for camera parameters

  • A buffer is applied when selecting images for an alignment using a region of interest geometry. This ensures all required images to reconstruct the scene are used

  • Importing a geometry file with the same name as an existing geometry now adds a suffix and Reality Studio will consider them as individual entities

  • Rotation angles of camera positions are now shown in degrees instead of radians

  • The projection engine was updated to add support for the Czech Republic's spatial reference

  • The alignment report was extended with additional metrics. You can now find the coordinates of the estimated ground control points and reprojection errors are reported by their individual components.

  • Improved performance when running refinements on an alignment

  • Alignments now reuse image matches found, resulting in an improved performance for rerunning alignments after editing their settings

  • A topology validation check is performed on geometries added to or created within Reality Studio

  • Added an option to hide the world terrain elevation layer to reveal features hidden beneath it

Issues Addressed list for ArcGIS Reality Studio 2024.3.0

  • Reality Studio remembers the selection of mesh formats after reloading the project

  • Map centric progress layers that were created from other projects are now correctly removed

  • Project tree now remains visible when monitoring of a workspace is stopped

  • Reality Studio will now show an error message if it fails to delete data because another application is accessing that data

  • Alignments will now detect and warn the user correctly if their inputs have been changed

  • Cancelling at the end of the alignment sequence will no longer corrupt the project

  • Reality Studio will now show a warning again when the user tries to import control points from a .prj file that contains no control points

  • Fixed a bug that added columns to tables in the quality assurance tool and camera session inspector

  • Fixed a bug that resulted in a crash when adding images and restarting the app several times

  • Fixed a bug that resulted in a crash when clicking refine after refining an alignment

  • Fixed a bug that resulted in a crash when clicking zoom to layer for point clouds

What's new

Major and minor releases also include new functionality, which is described in What's new in ArcGIS Reality Studio.

ArcGIS acknowledgements

The acknowledgements for ArcGIS can be found on the Esri legal website.