Splat Workshop 0.4.0 – clean up scenes, versions by purpose

Clean up your scenes – a closed ceiling instead of a dark veil, no haze, no holes in the floor – and versions sorted by what they are for – 560 automated tests.

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New in 0.4

• 🧽 Clean up a version (experimental) – four sliders from off to 100 %. The scene itself stays as it is; only the new version is cleaned up, so you can compare it with one without.
  • Ceiling: a white ceiling gives the reconstruction nothing to hold on to – it stays thin, with a dark veil hanging under it. The veil goes (dark things near a wall, like a cupboard top or a bird cage, stay), and the ceiling is closed in its own colour. In a real living room: a veil of about 210,000 splats gone, the ceiling closed with 72,000.
  • Floor: holes filled in the colour of the floor around them.
  • Haze: big, nearly transparent blobs floating in the room go – long thin things like the bars of a bird cage or cables stay.
  • Edges: what lies well outside the room goes.
• 🎚️ Versions by purpose – for the Frame (one size, each with the frame rate measured on a Steam Frame: 0.75 M ≈ 36 fps, 1 M ≈ 35 fps and clearly sharper, 1.5 M ≈ 29 fps, 2 M ≈ 24 fps) or for the PC (all splats). Optionally the same without cleaning up next to it; a preview shows what will be made and what it replaces.
  • Versions are named by their clean-up strengths (all splats · ceiling 50 % · haze 30 %), and As template takes a version's settings for the next try – one slider at a time.
  • A version for the PC opens in Spirula Studio with one click.
  • Versions unfold under their scene or tour (▸ 1 version).
• 🧭 Tidier action bars – what you do, what you look at, what you change; the unfolding lists on a line of their own.
• 🔬 scripts/freespace.py (experimental, command line) – takes out splats in space the cameras looked through. On a real room it found little (white walls give too few points), but it looked a little better; kept for trying.

Updating from 0.3: nothing to do – existing scenes, tours and versions stay as they are.

Full changelog: v0.3.1...v0.4.0