LichtFeld Studio v0.5.2

What's Changed

• use public interface for test_visualizer_post_work by @miriameng in #1068
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #1069
• Vignette Fix by @shadygm in #1074
• Fix and cleanup coordinates by @MrNeRF in #1066
• fix shutdown crash on exit by @Lyapsus in #1078
• fix modal overlay shutdown crash by @Lyapsus in #1080
• Add action-only plugin toolbar support by @OlstFlow in #1082
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #1084
• Improve CLI progress by @MotivaCG in #1081
• fix: 3 point align tool unable to pick points by @jacobvanbeets in #1090
• Fix inconsistent colors in scene graph for disabled nodes by @dylantirandaz in #1087
• Fix inconsistent font colors in Input Settings tab by @dylantirandaz in #1088
• Fix inconsistent font color in training tab loss graph ticks by @dylantirandaz in #1086
• add missing font license file and third party license links by @todashuta in #1100
• feat: add color picker / eyedropper tool to image preview panel by @jacobvanbeets in #1102
• Update es.json by @jacobvanbeets in #1105
• Fix training "JSON" config not updating UI when imported after dataset by @jacobvanbeets in #1108
• Update README.md by @jacobvanbeets in #1110
• #1083 Fix: USD export crash on Windows due to missing plugin resources (this bug was annoying!) by @jacobvanbeets in #1112
• fix: MSVC 14.42 ICE on rml_sequencer_panel_timeline.cpp by @alexmgee in #1115
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #1116
• Missing .gitignore pattern for auto-generated USD files by @shadygm in #1117
• #1018 GUI Eval Mode by @shadygm in #1118
• Debug build windows by @kmeirlaen in #1121

New Contributors

• @Lyapsus made their first contribution in #1078
• @OlstFlow made their first contribution in #1082
• @dylantirandaz made their first contribution in #1087
• @alexmgee made their first contribution in #1115

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2

Viewport splitting, USD import/export, rendering and input refactors, training/UI polish, platform fixes,nd C aI/version metadata cleanup.

What's Changed

• native file dialog by @MrNeRF in #1013
• Nanogs by @MrNeRF in #1014
• Reuse ppisp by @MrNeRF in #1015
• Improved Input handling by @MrNeRF in #1026
• Rendering refactor by @MrNeRF in #1000
• windows: fix tests linking by @miriameng in #1030
• LFS densifcation by @MrNeRF in #1031
• Usd format import export by @MrNeRF in #1032
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #1034
• Depth mode selection by @MrNeRF in #1037
• Viewport splitting by @MrNeRF in #1043
• Fix mcmc defaults by @MotivaCG in #1046
• Add --output-name parameter to override default PLY filename by @MotivaCG in #1048
• windows: fix tests linking by @miriameng in #1052
• Improve for aarch64 environment by @todashuta in #1053
• MCP: Add full UI window capture, harden viewport capture by @SharkWipf in #1050
• Fixed the build‑failure issue on environments that do not support AVX2 by @todashuta in #1062
• Fix modal click-through on startup overlay by @jacobvanbeets in #1057
• Fix Windows default app association to use system Settings UI by @jacobvanbeets in #1061

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.5.1

plugins, mcp, rmlui, sequencer, and more

What's Changed

• #835 Fix crash on undistort resized images by @MrNeRF in #837
• windows: add /bigobj to prevent C1128 number of sections exceeded object file format limit by @miriameng in #838
• #829 Fix Gt and Rendering Alignment by @MrNeRF in #848
• shared vis module by @MrNeRF in #849
• windows: fix test compilation caused by windows.h by @miriameng in #855
• windows: consider CUDA 13 for cudart and curand dll copying by @miriameng in #853
• windows: ensure when building lichtfeld_stub it doesn't regenerate pyi files with CRLF by @miriameng in #854
• replace layout context managers with composable SubLayout system by @MrNeRF in #851
• Python UI cleanup by @MrNeRF in #856
• Gil lock improvements by @MrNeRF in #857
• refactor gui manager by @MrNeRF in #858
• windows: add missing dll export by @miriameng in #862
• unify python and C++ panel registry by @MrNeRF in #861
• gut adc warning and sync by @MrNeRF in #863
• Ppisp fixes by @MrNeRF in #865
• proper cleanup to ensure no CUDA error on exit by @miriameng in #864
• fix unresolved external symbols related to imgui for tests by @miriameng in #866
• #656 Enable/Disable cam views for training and extend python api by @MrNeRF in #869
• Refactor module deps by @MrNeRF in #870
• Make scene graph great again by @MrNeRF in #871
• Improve selection by @MrNeRF in #874
• PPISP: Fix CRF, fix gsplat rasterization clamp by @fishcu in #872
• Mesh support by @MrNeRF in #876
• expose texture and fix strides in kernel by @MrNeRF in #877
• Save PointCloud and Splat Model to Disk from Scene Graph by @shadygm in #873
• avoid copying all the time with copy_directory_if_different by @miriameng in #880
• Mesh to splat by @MrNeRF in #879
• Fixed file paths for Masks and CUDA 13.1 compilation of nvimagecodec by @shadygm in #882
• deal with demangler differences between MSVC and GCC by @miriameng in #888
• Mesh picking by @MrNeRF in #889
• #887 Fix step scaling on export by @MrNeRF in #890
• #846 change default easing to linear by @MrNeRF in #892
• Pie menu by @MrNeRF in #891
• fix: use uv to create plugin venvs instead of python -m venv by @jacobvanbeets in #894
• #843 Focal length in sequencer by @MrNeRF in #893
• Keyfram2scenegraph by @MrNeRF in #895
• follow up #888, narrow down the regex workaround by @miriameng in #896

• 883Fix shs rotation in viewport by @MrNeRF in #898

• #842 Sequencer fpv by @MrNeRF in #899
• Make equirectangular rendering without seams by @MrNeRF in #902
• Per pixel error by @MrNeRF in #905
• Uninstall Plugin Fix by @shadygm in #910
• Pre-compute undistortion during COLMAP camera loading by @ToRainu256 in #911
• Feat: Added mask modes to the evaluations. by @shadygm in #909
• Plugin Marketplace by @shadygm in #914
• More Themes by @shadygm in #915
• Update Python API Docs by @shadygm in #916
• Fast startup by @MrNeRF in #919
• migrate from glfw to sdl3 by @MrNeRF in #921
• Improve tensor lib by @MrNeRF in #923
• Refactor rendering by @MrNeRF in #924
• fix: use DXGI for per-process VRAM reporting on Windows by @jacobvanbeets in #927
• #928 gut eval fix by @MrNeRF in #929
• fix: use size_t for error map dimensions to fix MSVC C2398 narrowing conversion by @MrNeRF in #930
• Docker Update by @shadygm in #931
• Rmlui by @MrNeRF in #926
• fix: use DXGI for per-process VRAM in rmlui status bar on Windows by @jacobvanbeets in #932
• Rmlui v2 by @MrNeRF in #933
• Sidepanel fix mem by @MrNeRF in #934
• retain by @MrNeRF in #935
• Extend sequencer by @MrNeRF in #936
• #788 sequencer localization by @MrNeRF in #938
• #840 Fix gizmo location of keyframe cams by @MrNeRF in #939
• #731#749 Polyline must not move on camera movement by @MrNeRF in #940
• $942 Fix training panel updates on training by @MrNeRF in #944
• #823 User msg timeout fixed by @MrNeRF in #945
• Fix floating panel transparency and about dialog layout by @jacobvanbeets in #949
• #675 Fix pointcloud invisible for synthetic data by @MrNeRF in #952
• #941 fix undo redo by @MrNeRF in #959
• Bump github.com/microsoft/vcpkg from master to 2026.02.27 by @dependabot[bot] in #958
• #956 Preserve init PointCloud by @MrNeRF in #960
• UI enhancements by @MrNeRF in #965
• Chore/rmlui fixes by @shadygm in #966
• Feature/improved gs plus by @jordizv in #963
• Unify panels by @MrNeRF in #967
• Add splat-vr-viewer and measurement-tool to curated marketplace plugins by @jacobvanbeets in #968
• Coding editor by @MrNeRF in #969
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #973
• Fix GPU Mapping for WIndows by @shadygm in #975
• refactor selection tools by @MrNeRF in #974
• Fix IGS+ CacheLoader not initialized crash at first densification step by @jacobvanbeets in #976
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #979
• Fix typo in README for nightly builds by @shadygm in #980
• Enhance mcp by @MrNeRF in #984
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #985
• Fixes in selection, mpc, and transformations by @MrNeRF in #986
• save by @MrNeRF in #987
• #753 Use cache gt images by @MrNeRF in #989
• Fixed the extended text by @shadygm in #992
• Improve undo redo system by @MrNeRF in #990
• Add snap option to gizmos (Ctrl+drag) by @ToRainu256 in #994
• Better Sliders by @shadygm in #996
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #998
• Tools Menu Item by @shadygm in #1001
• windows: fix test linking by @miriameng in #1006

New Contributors

• @fishcu made their first contribution in #872
• @tora...

Fixes, undistort, and alpha as mask

What's Changed

• Make existence of binary releases more clear by @SharkWipf in #820
• Selecetion tool fixes by @dozeri83 in #827
• alpha as mask by @MrNeRF in #832
• Optionally undistort on load by @MrNeRF in #833

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.4.2

Bugfixes and PPSIP

What's Changed

• #800 fix crop filter mode by @MrNeRF in #801
• #798 - add init_path to params upon reset by @kmeirlaen in #803
• Bump github.com/microsoft/vcpkg from master to 2026.01.16 by @dependabot[bot] in #805
• Ppisp by @MrNeRF in #808
• #810 fix space issue by @MrNeRF in #812
• fix windows compilation by @miriameng in #811
• #813 run only in main repo by @MrNeRF in #814
• #807 fix growing splats on large fov by @MrNeRF in #816
• Fix crop box before training by @MrNeRF in #817

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.4.1

LichtFeld Studio v0.4.0

What's Changed

• Depth based grid by @MrNeRF in #554
• Bump github.com/microsoft/vcpkg from master to 2025.10.17 by @dependabot[bot] in #520
• fix: size_t -> int cuda13 by @MrNeRF in #559
• test by @MrNeRF in #560
• Fix clang-bot by @MrNeRF in #561
• clang-bot fix attempt by @MrNeRF in #562
• Windows: fix cl.exe not in PATH when running nvcc directly with execute_process by @miriameng in #555
• Fix regex to take only first GPU if multiple GPUs present by @ege-adam in #567
• Portable builds by @MrNeRF in #563
• adjusting build and copy files by @kmeirlaen in #573
• Bump github.com/microsoft/vcpkg from master to 2025.12.12 by @dependabot[bot] in #569
• seems to fix some nans by @MrNeRF in #575
• Rework panels - improve scroll area on rendering and training panels by @kmeirlaen in #574
• Auto-create cache base directory if missing by @MotivaCG in #572
• Fix runaway effect by @MrNeRF in #578
• import trainer config by @MrNeRF in #579
• mip 2d filter by @MrNeRF in #581
• Button states by @kmeirlaen in #584
• Make scene context take training state into account #585 by @kmeirlaen in #586
• export config by @MrNeRF in #587
• Fix ImGuizmo overlay rendering on top of menu dialogs by @jacobvanbeets in #588
• Improve OOM error message clarity in training failure notifications (#580) by @jacobvanbeets in #589
• fix orbit gimbal lock by @MrNeRF in #593
• fix issue 590 by @MrNeRF in #592
• Mirror tool by @MrNeRF in #591
• startup overlay by @MrNeRF in #600
• Fix icon and tooltip visibility on light themes (#598) by @jacobvanbeets in #603
• Add GUI localization system with English and Japanese support by @MrNeRF in #602
• Add Dutch (nl) translation by @jacobvanbeets in #605
• respect --max_width by @MrNeRF in #606
• Keep technical parameter names in English across all localizations by @MrNeRF in #610
• feat: add pipelined image loader with GPU batch decoding by @MrNeRF in #611
• fix potential race condition by @MrNeRF in #614
• Fix Unicode file path handling for Windows and Linux by @MrNeRF in #615
• Fix high dpi scaling by @MrNeRF in #613
• Fix RTX 50xx GPU batch decode corruption by using single-image decode by @jacobvanbeets in #616
• Add localization for Korean, Chinese, French, Italian, Polish, and Spanish by @MrNeRF in #620
• Complete Unicode path handling fixes across all file I/O operations by @MrNeRF in #619
• Claude/unicode paths from master vxl5 h by @MrNeRF in #621
• Fix Unicode folder names crashing in file browser and save dialog by @MrNeRF in #623
• Fix Unicode folder names crashing in file browser and save dialog by @MrNeRF in #625
• Fix Unicode path tests by using utf8_to_path for path construction by @MrNeRF in #626
• Fix incorrect shell escape pattern expectation in test by @MrNeRF in #627
• Fix Unicode path crashes in logging/error messages across codebase by @MrNeRF in #628
• Fix unicode paths for all exports by @MrNeRF in #631
• Remove 'New Step' label from Save Steps section in GUI by @jacobvanbeets in #635
• Fix unicode path export and checkpoint directory by @MrNeRF in #632
• fix korean and add German by @MrNeRF in #636
• include mask loading into pipeline by @MrNeRF in #648
• more unicode fixes by @MrNeRF in #650
• data loading overlay by @MrNeRF in #652
• Remove num workers by @MrNeRF in #653
• Fix: Reset training preserves most training parameters by @MrNeRF in #654
• Blender fixes by @dozeri83 in #624
• fix: transforms.json loader and equirectangular camera support by @MrNeRF in #660
• Tile mode gut by @MrNeRF in #661
• move default params to struct by @MrNeRF in #662
• better vram handling in viewer by @MrNeRF in #667
• Save only checkpoints (not PLY) for automatic saves at save_steps (#664) by @jacobvanbeets in #665
• fixes and optimizations by @MrNeRF in #671
• Fix info panel overlapping image in preview (fixes #670) by @jacobvanbeets in #672
• Improve transform json loading by @MrNeRF in #673
• fix compilation for tests on windows by @miriameng in #679
• copy DLLs for testing on Windows by @miriameng in #680
• Improve CUDA-OpenGL interop capability check for ARM64 Linux by @todashuta in #686
• Better loading popup for dataset import and resume #599 by @MrNeRF in #688
• Fix recurring Unicode encoding issues by @MrNeRF in #689
• Rename default strategy to adc by @kmeirlaen in #687
• Improve tests by @MrNeRF in #691
• faster ssim by @MrNeRF in #678
• Rename default strategy to adc for tests by @miriameng in #695
• Improve Chinese language support by @todashuta in #697
• remove dynamic calculation of steps when chaning sparsity parameters by @kmeirlaen in #700
• Cuda streams and optimizations bases on streams by @MrNeRF in #707
• fix #issue608 by @MrNeRF in #708
• #642 Fix step-scaler rounding and add CUDA version check by @MrNeRF in #709
• Fix SOG loader not rendering higher-order SH properly (issue #696) by @jacobvanbeets in #704
• Update import menu to include SOG and SPZ formats in all locales (#702) by @jacobvanbeets in #706
• stream fixes by @MrNeRF in #714
• #717 Feature/disk space error handling by @jacobvanbeets in #723
• #666 VRAM reduction in trainer by @MrNeRF in #726
• fix split view by @MrNeRF in #727
• #666 Add render resolution scale to reduce GUI VRAM usage by @jacobvanbeets in #728
• #724 Fix: Equirectangular tile mode by @gradeeterna in #729
• #607: fix rendering artifacts along imgui panel by @MrNeRF in #730
• #721 Better and more comprehensive tooltips by @MrNeRF in #733
• #698 fixes multiple issues around the split view like pivoting and rendering by @MrNeRF in #732
• #676 use stbi instead oiio for pngs by @MrNeRF in #736
• #601: Fi...