Release 16/02/2026 (Compatible with Blender 5.0.1)

• Improve View Synthesis
• Fix color import of .ply files
• Fix transform on 3D point clouds
• Deduplication of image file names
• Set mesh vertex colors on export
• Support non-square pixels (distinct fx and fy)
• Add compatibility for Blender 5 (fcurve API changes)
• Add compativility for Blender 5 (slotted actions of camera animation)

Release 18/01/2024 (Compatible with Blender 4.0.2)

• View synthesis example script using a NeRF model (Instant NGP)
• Panel to compute a view synthesis for the current camera
• Support for the Instant-NGP file format (https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp)
• Avoid duplication of background images
• Support Geometry Node creation of Blender 4.0

Release 31/08/2023 (Compatible with Blender 3.1.2 - 3.5.1)

• Support for alicevision sfm data version 1.2.5

Release 13/06/2023 (Compatible with Blender 3.1.2 - 3.5.1)

• Support for geometry node creation in Blender 3.4.1 - 3.5.1
• Adaption to sfm / json file format changes introduced by recent Meshroom versions
• Numerical sorting instead of alphabetical sorting of camera names

Release 8/05/2023 (Comaptible with Blender 3.1.2 - 3.3)

Support new Meshroom camera parameter key

Release 21/07/2022 (Comaptible with Blender 3.1.2 - 3.2.1)

Fix geometry node creation for Blender 3.2.1
Add support for installation and removal of individual dependencies
Fix the point exporter for OpenGL point clouds

Release 26/06/2022 (Comaptible with Blender 3.1.2)

Add a new point cloud representation method based on geometry nodes. Allows to render point clouds with Eevee and Cycles.
Add point colors to geometry nodes (Thanks to @Linusnie).
Remove the particle system based point cloud representation method (because of the new point clound representation option based on geometry nodes).

Release 11/05/2022 (Comaptible with Blender 3.1.2)

Adapt addon to recent changes of the screenshot api in Blender 3.1.2

Release 20/02/2022 (Compatible with Blender 3.0 onwards only!)

• Fix the offscreen rendering bug under windows (reported here) by replacing the (deprecated) bgl module with functions provided by the gpu module of Blender 3.0
• Adjust the screenshot operator according to API changes of Blender 3.0

Therefore, this version of the add-on drops support for Blender 2.8 and 2.9. If you want to work with older Blender versions (not recommended), you can download one of the previous releases.

Release 17/01/2022 (supports dependencies in Blender 2.8 - 3.0)

Fix dependency installation for Blender 2.8 to Blender 2.9.2