X-Ray Display Tips

Modified on Mon, 9 Dec at 3:42 PM

X-Ray for Viewport Rendering

To increase viewport rendering quality:

Increase GPU cache and decrease Minimum coverage under Preferences > Viewport Rendering. Note: These changes may slow down viewport rendering.

For optimal results with orthophotos:

X-Ray settings:
- If using a light background color, ensure the Invert option is enabled.
- Activate the Silhouette option to sharpen object contours.
- Increase the Size setting to fill empty pixels in high-resolution orthophotos.
- Increase the White setting to reduce over-exposure.
Orthophoto Generation Settings:
- Increase the VRAM per tile setting to minimize visual tiling effects. Note: This may prolong processing time.

When rendering videos or screenshots from point clouds in X-Ray mode, visible boundaries (tiling effects) may appear.

To minimize these effects:

Adjust the Point count setting: Choose Custom and render up to 24GB points per frame to reduce tiling.
Select No tiling to remove the tiling effect entirely by rendering a sub-sampled point cloud. However, note that this may result in a loss of quality, so use this option cautiously.

General Tips for X-Ray Display

Background Matters: Use inverted x-ray mode with light backgrounds and regular x-ray mode with dark backgrounds to achieve the best contrast and clarity.
Handling Circular Patterns: X-ray mode can reveal a circular bright spot in the center of the viewport caused by the level of detail (LOD), particularly in views where most of the data is visible. To avoid this, enable the No tiling option, which renders a sub-sampled point cloud. While this reduces rendering quality, it is sufficient when viewing the dataset from a distance.