ReCap now provides a quick way to turn your View States into a handy animation for use in creating presentations or work packet materials. Utilizing the stock transitions between states, ReCap generates an animation that moves seamlessly between them, maintaining a sense of context within the model. Access to playback and export are found as two new contextual tools under the View State header, and in individual groups.
Playback is initiated through the "play" button found on mouse-over of the group entry in the Project Explorer. Once playback has been started ReCap will automatically cycle through the view states contained within that group in order of top to bottom as they appear in the Project Explorer.
New view states can be added, removed, or moved in the View State list to extend or modify the animation result. Because we are utilizing the standard animations for View States it's best to think of individual View States as key frames that the animation toolkit uses to path the user through the project.
Export of animations is also accessible through the contextual UI of group headers.
Current export options allow for MP4 or AVI formats with the ability specify 720p, 1080p, or 4k resolution.
Once exported, the video provides a crisp, full resolution visualization of the point cloud. Omitting any transition artifacts that may be present when viewing the animation in real time within ReCap.