Gaussian Render Scan 1.0.0

First public release.

• Guide in seven steps with a check per step; blue buttons show the next action, red status
  lines what is missing.
• 1 Scene & Camera – Prepare Scene: Cycles on the fastest GPU backend with scan render
  settings; lens and look target of the scan camera.
• 2 Look Target – Put Selection into Collection, reuses an existing collection, frames the
  geometry.
• 3 Group & Align to Ground – for objects that stand on a ground.
• 4 Camera Sphere – 20 to 1280 cameras; Fill Each View and Center in Each View make the
  model fill and centre every square image; upper hemisphere or full sphere.
• 5 Build Camera Animation – one keyframe per camera, fresh from step 4; scene versions
  (<Name>_v001.blend) with their own dataset folder; Live Camera Adjust for one view or the
  whole sphere, with Cancel.
• 6 Render Settings & Output – render output straight into the dataset folder of the version.
• 7 COLMAP Export – cameras, poses and a start point cloud from all model vertices plus surface
  points; GPU visibility filter; crop box; reuse of an unchanged point cloud; auto scale with the
  factor in <vNNN>_gscan_export.json; works with Postshot and LichtFeld Studio.
• Requires Blender 4.1 or later.

Install: download gaussian_scan.py below, then in Blender Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Install from Disk…