RealityCapture is now free to indie artists and studios

Epic Video games has launched RealityCapture 1.4, the newest model of the photogrammetry software.

The replace adjustments RealityCapture’s pricing mannequin, making it free to artists and studios with income underneath $1 million/yr, with subscriptions costing $1,250/yr for bigger firms.

The previous credit-based pay-per-input pricing has been discontinued.

Converts giant combined information units into clear manufacturing belongings
Launched in 2016, and bought by Epic Video games in 2021, RealityCapture generates correct triangle-based meshes of real-world objects, from folks and props to environments.

It’s able to tackling very giant combined information units, even on laptops and low-end {hardware}.

The software program consists of performance aimed toward aerial surveying and concrete planning, however can be used within the leisure trade to generate belongings to be used in video games and VFX initiatives.

RealityCapture 1.4: now free to artists and studios incomes underneath $1 million/yr
The primary change in RealityCapture 1.4 is the brand new pricing mannequin, introduced final month as a part of a wider collection of adjustments to Epic Video games’ merchandise, together with Unreal Engine and Twinmotion.

The software program is now free to artists and studios with gross income underneath $1 million/yr, together with to be used on industrial initiatives.

For bigger firms, the previous $3,750 perpetual license has been discontinued, in favor of $1,250/seat/yr subscriptions.

RealityCapture and Twinmation are additionally accessible as a part of the brand new $1,850/seat/yr Unreal Engine subscriptions – once more, solely payable by studios with income over $1 million/yr.

Can now open and convert previous PPI initiatives now that the PPI mannequin has been discontinued
As well as, RealityCapture’s previous credit-based pay-per-input (PPI) mannequin has been discontinued. Current clients have 12 months to make use of any remaining credit earlier than they expire.

Since PPI builds of the software program are not accessible, Epic Video games has added the flexibility to open present PPI initiatives in RealityCapture 1.4, supplied you will have an web connection.

That ought to allow customers to import and resave PPI initiatives, making it potential to make use of them in future variations of the software program. Yow will discover extra particulars within the release notes.

As well as, RealityCapture is now accessible within the Epic Developer Portal, making it potential to purchase new seats on a self-service foundation.

Few different new options
Aside from that, there are not any main new options: the largest change listed within the launch notes is the flexibility to add non-georeferenced initiatives to on-line collaboration platform Nira.

Value and system necessities
RealityCapture 1.4 is out there for Home windows 7+ and Home windows Server 2008+. It’s CUDA-based, so you have to a CUDA 3.0-capable Nvidia GPU.

Yow will discover particulars of the brand new pricing within the story above.

Read a full list of changes in RealityCapture 1.4 in the online changelog

Read Epic Games’ FAQs about the new pricing for RealityCapture

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