Highlights

• Blender VFX add-on
• Scene cropping
• Basic RealityCapture Support
• Improved camera path management
• Bug fixes

What's Changed

• Bump json5 from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 in /nerfstudio/viewer/app by @dependabot in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1238
• Loosen dependencies by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1240
• Docs fix by @Mason-McGough in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1244
• create video writer later, to adapt to render image's width and height (fixes #1242) by @machenmusik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1245
• Update transform.json docs by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1246
• Bump nerfacc to 0.3.3 by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1249
• setting tensorf default from wandb to viewer by @terrancewang in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1250
• Rollback cryptography to fully working version (pre-39; 38 works) by @machenmusik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1254
• NeRFPlayer sliding window implementation by @lsongx in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1255
• downsample all images by @machenmusik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1259
• Camera path by @THE-COB in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1251
• CropBox GUI implementation by @dozeri83 in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1205
• use -noautorotate option to avoid discrepancies (fixes #1260) by @machenmusik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1261
• Add support for RealityCapture by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1055
• Blender addon script and documentation by @cvachha in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1218
• Fix tensorf chkpt loading by @terrancewang in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1266
• Bug fix for loading cameras with different distortions in nerfstudio_dataparser by @matsuren in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1268
• refactor control panel by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1267
• Add step argument in eval_utils.py to fix rendering bug. by @Mason-McGough in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1272
• DyCheck dataset parser by @lsongx in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1270
• Increase max_res of first proposal network by @kerrj in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1282
• Fix total train time metric logging by @williamshen-nz in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1284
• Depth data loading for Polycam LiDAR data by @ManuConcepBrito in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1253
• Fix the issue with missing images in the Reality Capture data. by @dkorolov in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1285
• Allow users to modify background color when cropping by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1289
• Updated Blender add-on calculating duration by @cvachha in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1288
• Remove bracket from ffmpeg command's crop filter by @heymarcell in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1294
• Enable rendering with crop by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1295
• Load path dropdown by @THE-COB in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1290
• PIL Dependency by @mcallisterdavid in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1197
• v0.1.16 by @tancik in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1296

New Contributors

• @lsongx made their first contribution in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1255
• @cvachha made their first contribution in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1218
• @williamshen-nz made their first contribution in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1284
• @ManuConcepBrito made their first contribution in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1253
• @dkorolov made their first contribution in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1285
• @heymarcell made their first contribution in https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/pull/1294

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/compare/v0.1.15...v0.1.16