I am running RealityScan 2.0.1 on Linux. It works so far. I can align pictures, create meshes, color and texture them.
My Problem is the UI-Scaling. I hope someone can help me here.
I can adjust the general zoom in winecfg. This leads to a pleasant text and ribbon size in the general view. Problem is, that the boxes for tooltips don’t scale, while the text does. It becomes unreadable.
I can leave the general scaling be and adjust UI-scaling in RealityScan. Text and tooltips are fine then, but the ribbon does not scale.
In neither variant I can get the dialogues scales correctly. They are always too bis. Actually so big, that most of them are unusable, because buttons are out of reach.
I think if we manage to scale the UI correctly there is no reason, why RealityScan should not run well on Linux. I can at least not see any differences in quality and speed comparing Windows and Linux. All tools seem to work.
If someone need help to install RealityScan on Linux:
Create an Epic-Account
Install the “Heroic Games Launcher” through your package manager
Start Heroic, lo into your Epic-Account
It should show RealityScan as installable - install it.
run it once, maybe the wine-prefix needs some tweaking. It will install dependencies.
Yes, the whole workflow from pictures to an exported model works flawlessly. Its really just the UI-scaling, that makes some options unusable and sometime causing you ending in a dead end. There is also some flickering and random changing in the workspace-layout. But this is not causing any problems in usability.
My workaround so far is to know how to avoid certain dialogue windows to show up. This takes a lot of the easiness and fun out of using the program and the only reason why I often tend to use other software like meshroom. Fixing this problem would open the whole Linux market for this nice otherwise nice piece of software.
this is wonderful news. Thank you for supporting Linux. As I use an Arch-based distro, it is sadly not straight forward for me to install and later update DEB or RPM. Would you be willing and able to also maintain an arch-package in the AUR (Arch User Repo). This would make RealityScan really available for the Linux-mass.
Hello Jakub, thanks for this beautiful birthday present ! All the functions that I use are actually working properly on a direct-desktop installation on Fedora 42 with the GUI, so now RS is the perfect tool for what we do on archaeology, and we can make a smooth transition to Linux ! I will of course follow the next versions with great pleasure !
I installed the .RPM-Package on my system (endeavourOS, arch,based). It runs with less flickering, then my previous install (described above). The UI-scaling is better and I can press buttons that where out of reach before. But still its not completely correct and I am just waiting for getting trapped somewhere. I made a little video, but can not upload it (new users cant…)
How can I adjust the scaling? Its the toolstips and some of the dialogues.
As mentioned before, a AUR-package for Arch would be nice.
Hello, as it stays in the release notes: RealityScan for Linux (Wine) 2.1 offers a command-line–focused build of RealityScan, designed for automated processing on Linux servers.
So, it wasn’t prepared for UI usage and we are aware that some UI functionalities don’t work properly.
You can try to change the Zoom settings which can change the UI slightly (but not all parts of the UI). The settings can be find under: WORKFLOW/Application/Settings/Visual and language settings
