RealityCapture tutorial: Control Points

In this video we will dive into control points. You will learn what are control points good for, what they are not good for and how to place them in 2D views and in 3D views.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Activate the control points tool
1:21 Add images to color cursors
2:18 Place control points in 2D view
4:02 Editing of placed control points
4:31 Placing of remaining control points in the 1st component
5:03 Manipulating views with active control points tool.
5:30 Image navigation
5:49 Fast workflow for confirming control point measurements
6:32 Drag and drop control points
7:02 Placing control points in the second component
8:18 Alignment and result
8:48 Image suggestions intro
9:40 Navigation in 3D with active control points tool
10:12 Image suggestions
10:39 Placing control points in 3D
12:05 Confirming image suggestions
12:47 Automatic image suggestions
13:18 Placing the remaining control points in the 1st component
14:20 Fixing duplicated control points
15:03 Images in different components
15:22 Retriangulating control points
16:12 Confirming the rest of the image suggestions
16:30 Merging components and result
17:50 Add image suggestion through 2D views
18:25 Duplicated CP in imported components
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[@BarlitosC]

This is a really great video. I would almost say this is the only thing you need to know as a beginner using the software for the first time. Figuring out how to merge components was the main problem as a beginner IMO and this video clearly fixes that problem.

[@adhityaerlangga1269]

Thankyou very much, i'm going with my thesis now, and this very helpfull

[@slothsarecool]

The UX / UI needs a lot of love :D. Even deleting a control point seems difficult, there is no "1ds" in the version I just downloaded so I have no idea how to assign the same point again, and all this color assignment stuff seems unnecessary. If I were you guys I'd work on trying to make that stuff clear without consulting documentation

[@CapturingReality]

After first opening of the application, there is a pre set setting to 2Ds view. You can change it by clicking on it, keep clicked and then choose 1Ds view. Then you can there select a wanted point and delete it simply. The color cursors could be useful. You can watch also this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHyxd5uebMeqqtk

[@donmiko345]

This is certainly a very powerful software but the user interface is a freaking nightmare. There's no way to use it without watching long tutorials like this one...

[@ThreeBooleans]

This is a complicated process that we're doing. RC is optimized for fast workflows. Do you know another software with similar performance but that has solved this better?

[@HDesvideos]

Once you master the interface, you'll find that it's the smartest interface ever made. In particular, the use of the mouse is extremely well thought out. Many details in this interface demonstrate the desire of the creators to make life easier for users. I have been using RealityCapture since 2016. Compared to other photogrammetry software interfaces, this one is by far the best.

[@joseluisperezmartinez]

Excellent

[@VirtualshopX]

Verry usefull !

[@DoggoCreative]

I hope that now with Epic Games you guys land on a more user friendly environmental. Why should it be so complicated for every small task?

[@TheFunkenstien]

Get good

[@Champignon1000]

thank you!

[@yo3hi446]

Ďakujem za každý jeden návod, manuál,radu ste top skoda že “nerobíte” školenia alebo áno ? Mne to veľmi pomohli (ušetrili ste mi pol života )

[@CapturingReality]

Skolenia sa teraz nerobia

[@Olstman]

Thanks for the great tutorial. One issue that I have working with suggested points.For some reason I don't have constraints menu in align tab

[@CapturingReality]

Hi, this tutorial is done in older version. Now, this menu is under Scene 1D tab/ Tools.

[@Olstman]

@@CapturingReality Got it. Thanks!

[@nerosetsfire]

why do you need to add colors to the views at the start?

[@colekonop5034]

When I go to define the distance between control points it says this constraint has not enough points defined. I have my points 0,1 set on three different photos. Do I have to define the distance seperate you for each photo?

[@CapturingReality]

Hi Cole, do you have selected these points in Selected constraint(s) table as A and B?

[@alexanderchiknaev356]

Hello! Please give us the link for these photos! I can't find it on your Sample Datasets

[@CapturingReality]

Hi Alexander, this dataset is just for internal purposes. You can use any dataset for placing control points, the principles are the same.

[@alexanderchiknaev356]

@@CapturingReality Actually I tried to repeat the moment after 9m52sec and… It doesn’t work in my case!!!

[@CapturingReality]

@@alexanderchiknaev356 Do you mean suggestions? Do you have set Enable under Alignment tab/Registrations/Settings/Advanced/Enable measurement suggestions? Did you pushed F3? Is Add control point active after this?

[@alexanderchiknaev356]

@@CapturingReality Yes I do. Suggestions! I can't see relation lines between the current point on the point cloud and cameras

[@CapturingReality]

@@alexanderchiknaev356 Can you contact our support with this problem?

[@alonsorobots]

I don't think that down arrow key confirms suggestion of control point any longer right? For me it does switch to the next view, it just doesn't confirm.

[@CapturingReality]

Hi, it works that way. It confirms the measurement and goes to next the image.

[@alonsorobots]

Mine does not do this. I can create a recording for you. It would be a huge improvement if it both confirmed and moved to the next image. I’m using the latest free version.

[@CapturingReality]

@@alonsorobots Feel free to record the video. For the suggestion you need to see the unassigned control points in 1Ds view (the ones with green plus sign next to them). Then you need to open the image with control point in 2D view, hover the mouse over the point, click and push the left mouse button, correct the control point's position and confirm it by pushing the down arrow key (6:09 in the video).

[@alonsorobots]

@@CapturingReality I realize now that you have to click and *hold down* the left mouse button for it to auto confirm and move unto next. Also, for me it's not the down arrow key, but the left and right arrow keys. Maybe it's a language difference?

[@CapturingReality]

@@alonsorobots No, it is not a language difference. Left/right key shows the next image in the capturing order, up/down key shows the image where the point is suggested.

[@jacobdailey8936]

Everytime i run the Align images it goes for a few seconds before just disappearing and nothing happens. What am i doing wrong? There isnt even an error

[@CapturingReality]

Hi Jacob, what kind of dataset are you using? How many inputs are imported? What is the image quality?

[@jacobdailey8936]

@@CapturingReality My subject is someones face. they are pretty still throughout all photos. I have 125 images imported. 200 if i include the ones of the back of the head. Taken on my Sony a6000 manual cam settings and raw. Once in RC image quality is 6000x3376. I've tried to go through and add control points on the corners of the eye, mouth and ear, but when i hit Align the blue bar goes about 1/3rd of the way and it vanishes with no prompt as to why it had done so. Is there a way to see if it ran into an issue with a particular image?

[@jacobdailey8936]

@@CapturingReality I had just tested again using the quick start files from the cloud. Clicking Align ends early and no components are created

[@nicko.baiculescu9363]

12:25 this validate suggested control point ought to be way more user friendly and intuitive. Right now this is plain waste of time - the down-arrow not really working

[@CapturingReality]

HI, are you doing this after alignment and after placing the point in 3Ds view? During using arrows do you have still pushed the left mouse button?

[@bernstock]

This application is capable of greatness. But after 23 years in VFX, I have to say the UI is positively awful.

[@luiyo1]

So over complicated! Should learn from tracking softwares like 3de & syntheyes