Voici la version 2.6.2 RC4 des logiciels d’assemblage d’images Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga (principalement des correction de bugs).

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.2 RC4.

Journal des modifications en anglais

Main changes

Mainly a fix release

In addition to fixing some RC3 issues, multiband rendering has been improved in HDR mode. Multiband algorithm is a sensible part of engine and these modifications need to be tested before final realease. We are still attentive to Windows 64 bits crash issues which seem to be solved since RC2 version.

Fixes :

- 0001186: [Image I/O] EXIF speed, aperture modified should influence HDR activation – resolved.
- 0001150: [Editor] Image move to new panorama and then extended save as hang – resolved.
- 0001193: [Editor] Extended Save As — « move picture » lost textures in the editor – resolved.
- 0001190: [UI behavior] Crash when adding pictures into the editor – resolved.
- 0001191: [Cortex ( rendu )] 1 pixel wide artefacts – resolved.
- 0001176: [Cortex ( rendu )] Multiband on HDR output – resolved.
- 0001163: [Shell Integration] Wrong permission on Resource folder – resolved.
- 0001189: [Image I/O] Reload Image in layer editor brokes Fisheye radius – resolved.

Voici la version 2.6.2 RC3 des logiciels d’assemblage d’images Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga.

Cette version 2.6.2 RC3 devrait être la dernière étape avant la sortie de la version finale 2.6.2 (voir le journal des modifications ci-dessous, en anglais).

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.2 RC3.

Journal des modifications

Main changes

Mainly a fix release

Fixes :

This release candidate is just about fixing some small issues before the 2.6.2 final release. It was not declared final, because we are not sure yet that the Windows 7, 64 bits crash issues are solved. It seems that all issues recorded here were good after the RC2, but we were not totally sure about that even after asking for feedback.- 0001163: [Shell Integration] Wrong permission on Resource folder – closed.- 0001160: [Cortex ( rendu )] reopen HDR project – resolved.- 0001170: [Editor] Move image with key – resolved.- 0001149: [Import plugins] Papywizard and fisheye, no links created – resolved.- 0001165: [UI behavior] Settings window – double cancel needed when a non existing path is entered – resolved.- 0001132: [Cortex ( rendu )] Render crash issue – resolved.- 0001152: [Cortex ( rendu )] Render tiff 16bit on 360 panorama is whole black – resolved.

Cette nouvelle version RC corrige quelques bugs et améliore le support des cartes graphiques (voir le journal des modifications ci-dessous, en anglais).

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.2 RC2.

Journal des modifications

Revamped 360° blending

With engine 2.6.1, we introduced a new generic 360° blender that had some issues with soft rendering and uses more memory. We improved all parts : sharp rendering, less memory used but still with better blending over 360° edges compared to 2.6.0 engine.

New compatibility mode in GPU support

We introduced a compatibility mode in GPU support so that even fairly old GPU can use this mode in Autopano Pro. The GPU check has also beeing improved to check for both mode.

Fixes :

- 0000602: [Unclassified] Crash when using PtGui import – resolved.
- 0001147: [Cortex ( rendu )] HDR output issue (grey in burned zone) – resolved.
- 0001142: [Cortex ( rendu )] Softness issue in rendering (360° case) – resolved.
- 0001140: [Cortex ( rendu )] Not enough memory for rendering one line (360° case) – resolved.
- 0001148: [Cortex ( rendu )] Force Mercator and auto-crop conflit – resolved.
- 0000998: [Editor] MAC : some issue with a given GPU – resolved.
- 0001072: [UI behavior] Add GPU compatibilty mode in global settings – resolved.
- 0001125: [Editor] GPU compatibility mode – resolved.
- 0001133: [Image I/O] Image blurred when using haze on small size image – resolved.
- 0001138: [Cortex ( rendu )] Blending on zenith – closed.

Cette nouvelle version RC intègre un système d’analyse des crashs et fixe quelques bugs (voir la liste des modifications ci-dessous, en anglais).

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.2 RC1 .

Main change

Papywizard focal length integration

Sometimes, it is really needed to check that focal length provided by images and provided by XML are good and matching. In some case, you just don’t have any focal length. We added an easy way to do that directly in papywizard plugin.
Crash analysis system for Microsoft Windows

Fixes

- 0001134: [Performance] Generic crash analysis system – resolved.
- 0000561: [Editor] Moving image issue with update – resolved.
- 0000932: [Shell Integration] Qt path under linux – resolved.
- 0001028: [UI behavior] Workspace saving leads to crash – resolved.
- 0001128: [Import plugins] Papywizard – Focal length integration – resolved.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.1 RC1 .

Corrections de bugs (en anglais) :

- 0000597: [Cortex ( rendu )] Blending issue around 360° – resolved.
- 0000934: [Performance] GPU black image onATI X1400 – resolved.
- 0001044: [Cortex ( rendu )] Line 347 error – resolved.
- 0001085: [Cortex ( rendu )] Check blending case – resolved.
- 0001087: [UI behavior] Reload button crash – resolved.
- 0001089: [Cortex ( rendu )] Antighost edge choice – resolved.
- 0001094: [Cortex ( rendu )] Interpolation issues – resolved.
- 0001095: [Editor] Strange alexandroid in the editor only – resolved.

Kolor met en ligne aujourd’hui la version 2.6 RC2 des logiciels d’assemblage d’images Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga. Nous avons ajouté un nouveau réglage dans la fenêtre de fusion d’exposition d’Autopano Giga. Vous pouvez maintenant faire varier le niveau du multiband, ce qui peut être utile pour créer un effet « HDR ». Pour les autres changements, voir le journal des modifications ci-dessous.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6 RC2.

Si vous n’avez pas encore regardé les vidéos présentant la version 2.6, vous pouvez les retrouver ici.

Principales modifications (anglais)

• NEW : multiband level slider in Exposure Fusion preview
  • It appears that the multiband level is really usefull for a HDR style rendering. With this slider exposed here, you have a live quick rendering of the influence of that parameter in final rendering.
  • Note : we added the multiband level in the %b/%B template name syntax too, so the rendered file name can contains the number of level used.
• IMPROVED : Mac integration
  • Different version is better managed now on mac

And a lot of fixes.

Fixes :

- 0001011: [Editor] Browse and auto-detection – resolved.

- 0000992: [Shell Integration] Installer: Add (Autopano Giga Only ) for Autopano Pro Mac installer – resolved.

- 0000189: [Cortex ( rendu )] Low percentage rendering doesn’t have antiliasing – resolved.

- 0000994: [Shell Integration] Bundle id and settings name should be the same to avoid mac preference file duplication – resolved.

- 0000995: [Unclassified] Mac app name does not contains versions – resolved.

- 0000989: [Shell Integration] MAC : preferences are in double – resolved.

- 0001029: [Synapse ( detection )] Autodetection and stopping one group detection – resolved.

- 0001012: [Cortex ( rendu )] Multiband level template name – resolved.

- 0000537: [Shell Integration] Shell explorer doesn’t display thumb from RC2 – resolved.

- 0001006: [Editor] Move mode update broken after image adds – resolved.

- 0001009: [Shell Integration] plugin Bridge : job folder and copy of source images – resolved.

- 0001021: [Cortex ( rendu )] Wrong offset in rendered pieces in some cases – resolved.

- 0001016: [Editor] GPU shader issue on linux – resolved.

- 0000613: [Performance] Crash under linux during pixel projection – resolved.

- 0001005: [Cortex ( rendu )] Blending weight on edge – resolved.

- 0000970: [UI behavior] GPU mode incompatible with nView – resolved.

- 0000983: [Editor] Reload image doesn’t work in editor – resolved.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6 RC1.

Si vous n’avez pas encore regardé les vidéos présentant la version 2.6, vous pouvez les retrouver ici.

Principales modifications (anglais)

• NEW : new ‘reload image’ icon in layer editor
  • This is nice when drawing mask in photoshop. This simple button let you see the result in autopano directly ( it flushes the internal cache and reload all images or just the selected image ).
• NEW : single stack detection
  • In a group, if you have several images, but all regrouped into a single stack, detection was not allowed. It is now possible to detect a panorama for such case, which is quite nice to do exposure fusion without the need of stitching.
• IMPROVED : blending
  • New adjustements have been made into the multiband level handling resulting in a better color blend accross large uniform areas like sky.
  • You can try that on images with huge color exposure differences without color correction activated, it does work well ( try also to set the pyramid level to 0 which will smooth color differences to the max ).
• IMPROVED : External software support
  • Support for Adobe Lightroom and Bridge has been improved ( UTF8 charset support, hundred of images support, etc)
• IMPROVED : Extended Save As
  • Improved speed when using option move
• FIX : Corrupted TIFF export

And a lot of fixes.

Warning :

- We found a late minute crash when using Exposure Fusion preview under Mac only. So don’t use this feature yet on Mac. Normally, we should not put public a version with such hard crash, but we still decided to make it public as it fix many issues from beta 4. Mainly, we want to get some feedback about the blending adjustement done to see if it improves the quality of rendering.

Fixes :

- 0000965: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Image jump in editor – resolved.

- 0000931: [UI behavior] About the achor multiple selection – resolved.

- 0000956: [Import plugins] Lightroom and Bridge plugin import error (too much args) – resolved.

- 0000985: [Editor] Change lens Model in editor leads to crash – resolved.

- 0000984: [Editor] Ransac mode not well initialised in CP editor – resolved.

- 0000919: [Neurone ( optimisation )] On some panorama without exif, divergence in optimization – resolved.

- 0000917: [Neurone ( optimisation )] If no exif in image file, the preset fisheye is selected instead of strong – resolved.

- 0000900: [Performance] Free memory report in rendering seems wrong – resolved.

- 0000949: [Cortex ( rendu )] Bad bench times in Render description sheet – resolved.

- 0000958: [Shell Integration] Extended save As – resolved.

- 0000947: [Editor] Crop does not work if some images are unchecked – resolved.

- 0000944: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Color correction anchor changes – resolved.

- 0000943: [Editor] Layer and selection – resolved.

- 0000938: [Editor] Anchor edit issue in CPU mode – resolved.

- 0000933: [Image I/O] Corrupted color profile – resolved.

- 0000941: [Image I/O] TIF saving doesn’t work anymore – resolved.

- 0000709: [Cortex ( rendu )] tiff writing really slow – resolved.

- 0000940: [Editor] Preview fusion is too slow – resolved.

- 0000939: [Cortex ( rendu )] Blending issue ? – resolved.

- 0000936: [UI behavior] density histogram display – resolved.

- 0000945: [Editor] Decimals in input focal length – resolved.

- 0000942: [Editor] Newly added image should be checked in layer editor by default – resolved.

- 0000930: [UI behavior] Fix in CSS for linux on dark theme – resolved.

- 0000932: [Shell Integration] Qt path under linux – resolved.

- 0000793: [Cortex ( rendu )] Embedded layer in rendering issue – closed.

- 0000911: [Shell Integration] Linux integration script issue – closed.

- 0000806: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Several detections on the same group succeed then failed – closed.

- 0000801: [Cortex ( rendu )] Can not save after editing – closed.

- 0000553: [Cortex ( rendu )] Rendering crash mac – closed.

- 0000946: [Test case] Editing a group of copied photos changes the originals – closed.

Télécharger.

Le journal des modifications (en anglais)

PANOTOUR & PANOTOUR PRO

Use of the latest KrPano player version

Use final release of the 1.0.8.14 version of krpano player

Adapt Panotour/PanotourPro outputs to this new version

New option on thumbnail stacks

Add an option to let the user decides if the stack of thumbnails should be opened when the tour starts or not

Bug fixes on angular fields and vertical offset fields

Angular fields values do not change when user clicks on the graphical fields representing them

The vertical offset of imported orthoptic panoramas is correctly set

Enhanced building time

Enhanced internal algorithms to reduce the building time of a tour

PANOTOUR PRO ONLY

Lower limitation for spherical panoramas useable in iPad tours

To be able to build a mobile-compatible tour, the project must only contain spherical panoramas with at least 360°x45° angular fields.

Distorded hotspots on iPad

Distorded images will be displayed in iPad tours as they are displayed in desktop tours.

Cube Faces suffixed by _r, _l, etc.. taken into account during import

Krpano syntax for cube faces is taken into account during Cube Faces import.

Enhancement of the basic theme

Added: a new colorizeable blinking spot in the basic theme.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6 beta 4.

Si vous n’avez pas encore regardé les vidéos présentant la version 2.6, vous pouvez les retrouver ici.

Principales modifications (anglais)

• APG only: NEW : Exposure fusion Preview :
  • In the exposure fusion, a small but real rendering has been plugged to show you the accurate color you’ll get after rendering. It’s been regenerated following any cursor change.

• APG only: IMPROVED : Integration into external softwares :
  • Support for Adobe Lightroom 3.* ( A new way to integrate this plugin has been done : it’s now an export plugin in Lightroom ).
  • Support for Adobe Bridge CS3, 4, 5, 5.1 ( Raw are now developed before stitching in jpeg )
  • Support for Apple Aperture 3 ( Raw are developped either in Tiff or Jpeg before stitching )
  • Support for Google Picassa 3 ( no raw development here, raw is injected directly into Autopano Giga ).

• IMPROVED: Neurone ( our optimizer engine ) has a lot of improvement or new features :
  • As a result, the geometric quality of stitching has raised a lot on small focal length rectilinear lenses ( typical lens for high order distortion ).
  • By default, the sensor center shift has been enabled. This also give a nice boost is RMS quality. It’s often not negligeable at all with today’s sensor number of pixels.
  • Speed of fisheye stitching : at least 300% speedup, but it can be 10x too on big project.
  • On standard lens, support for 2nd and 3rd order distortion.
  • On standard lens, support for offset between lens and sensor.
  • Warning : as the lens model has improved, opening a 2.6 autopano .pano file under an old version won’t give nice results.

• NEW / IMPROVED : Rendering engine blending improvement and new features :
  • Priority support for several focal length : the longest focal length lens has priority over pixels coming from short focal length lens.
  • Histogram of focal length is now display around the rendering percentage slider. This allows a nice view over pixel density.
  • The multiband stage has been improved ( pyramid levels adjusted ) resulting in a better color uniformization over the whole area. No more issue in skies should happen now.

• IMPROVED : Move mode
  • Better handling of keyboard operation in that mode in CPU or GPU.
  • Mouse operation are happening smoothly without any visual artefact.

• IMPROVED : Papywizard and Gigapan plugin
  • Because of the Neurone engine upgrade, we changed a little the way we cope with such plugin.
  • The quality of stitching has raised in both mode with better handling of gigapan project and better located orphen images in Papywizard.

• NEW – GPU mode is enabled by default if possible

• IMPROVED – Layer editor check/uncheck is more user friendly

• FIX – Rendering with small percentage could give too sharp results.

• FIX – Update manager could miss to warn about some updates

And a lot of fixes.

Corrections de bugs

- 0000925: [Import plugins] Papywizard -> remove temporary point after optimization – assigned.
- 0000923: [UI behavior] Editor: pano move selected by default even when GPU is disabled – resolved.
- 0000921: [UI behavior] Slider rendering Percentage under mac not visible – resolved.
- 0000924: [Import plugins] Import Gigapan: color egalization to disable when optimization disabled – resolved.
- 0000922: [Cortex ( rendu )] Crash during multiband – resolved.
- 0000915: [UI behavior] Without GPU available, some UI defects make settings window hard to use – resolved.
- 0000868: [Editor] Blue Control point link cannot be selected until optimization – resolved.
- 0000843: [Editor] Move Mode : Texture is one move ahead – resolved.
- 0000842: [Editor] Move mode : key mode doesn’t validate – resolved.
- 0000847: [Unclassified] GPU activated by default – resolved.
- 0000832: [Image I/O] Launch a second instance of APG on MAC with args does not open new images given as arguments – resolved.
- 0000575: [Cortex ( rendu )] Reopening .pano file change the RMS ( gigapan case ) – resolved.
- 0000867: [Performance] Core setting should be clamp to newly detected number of core – resolved.
- 0000890: [Editor] GPU display of high offset images is not well located on the preview – resolved.
- 0000893: [Unclassified] Beta version isn’t informed of final release – resolved.
- 0000892: [Editor] Finetunning detection with new lens distorsion model – resolved.
- 0000884: [Neurone ( optimisation )] By default, on standard lens with exif, enable sensor offset – resolved.
- 0000750: [Cortex ( rendu )] Crash when rendering – photos with different focal lenght – resolved.
- 0000815: [Cortex ( rendu )] Wrong interpolation when rendering < 50% – resolved.
- 0000856: [Editor] GPU black image on ATI – resolved.
- 0000833: [Import plugins] Aperture Export Bug – resolved.
- 0000875: [Image I/O] Cameras.txt => canon scale factor are off scale – resolved.
- 0000831: [Unclassified] Plugin lens correction : some pixels added around the openLens plugins – resolved.
- 0000840: [UI behavior] Bad layer behavior in pano editor – resolved.
- 0000863: [Editor] Export only some image among a lot of – resolved.
- 0000845: [Editor] Some progress bar are missing – resolved.
- 0000855: [Editor] Exposure fusion preview in CPU broken – resolved.
- 0000783: [UI behavior] hourglass not present when clicking optimize – resolved.
- 0000800: [Image I/O] Lightroom feedback – resolved.
- 0000728: [Shell Integration] Lintian issues pass – resolved.
- 0000861: [Import plugins] Openlens plugins, everything is black in output – resolved.
- 0000725: [Performance] Free space checking for temp folder should parse external computer or website – resolved.
- 0000829: [Qt] undefined symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii – resolved.
- 0000857: [Image I/O] Wrong folder in .pano, should look directly in current folder first – resolved.
- 0000853: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Preview / Rendering is not the same visually – resolved.
- 0000616: [Editor] Add image which is not fisheye leads to crash – resolved.
- 0000812: [UI behavior] Centerpoint tool still active during Levels settings – resolved.
- 0000814: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Load .pano and reoptimize break the panorama – resolved.
- 0000844: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Difference between display angle in layer editor and saved angle in .pano – resolved.
- 0000838: [Unclassified] Plugin Installation on Mac Lion is broken – resolved.
- 0000830: [Cortex ( rendu )] The Blending Options by default is Custom – resolved.
- 0000835: [Cortex ( rendu )] Check multiband on this case – resolved.
- 0000926: [Cortex ( rendu )] Check the global User setting for rendering – closed.
- 0000834: [Editor] Manual placement of image does produce jump sometimes – closed.
- 0000813: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Wrong 360° panorama detected after an optimization – closed.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6 beta 2.

Si vous avez manqué les vidéos présentant Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga 2.6, vous pouvez les retrouver ici.

Journal des modifications (en anglais) :

APG only: NEW : Plugin for external software: Adobe Bridge CS3, 4, 5, 5.1 (Raw are developped in JPG)

Fixes :

- 0000819: Mercator projection is set right in the exifs
- 0000817: Mac OSX Lion compatibilty
- 0000807: Sequentially numbered PSB files are not created (no overwrtie filenames)
- 0000805: Lightroom install
- 0000804: TIFF: Alpha Channel area mask being ignored
- 0000803: Plugin lightroom Bridge : Error ADVAPI32.dll on Windows XP
- 0000799: Papywizard import does not reset
- 0000795: Picassa plugin doesn’t call Autopano on Windows.
- 0000794: TIFF Input
- 0000791: Bridge plugin should develops raws files using Camera Raw