hello and welcome Rim in today I will show you the contents of this box which are 3D maker Eagle Pro Max liar scanner full disclosure Eagle Pro contacted me and sent me this device I think I can keep it I am not sure they have no input on my videos they sent me some contents they helped me understand the device this is a really early device so the software is in Alpha State this is my first lighter scanner but I think I caught their attention by reviewing the competitions creality Raptor scanner I also reviewed if you haven't seen it check it out so this is an early look on this device and I will also have a blog post find the link in my video description I had enough time to play around with this and to learn the device and I also gave him lots of feedback test scans and sent material back they will also offer an online service where where they do the hard work so you just do the scan send them your files and they will improve the scan quality uh will work on the scan to give you a finished result so let's jump into this video it will have chapter marks if it's too boring you can skip around but I try my best to make it quick concise and informative if you don't know my channel consider subscribing already it will pay off okay it comes very nicely protected in this pelican style case you have your usual power adapters for us and UK Market EU plug on an 65 watt Gan charger they good good new Chargers to USBC USBC 2C on the device you have power is for charging data is not to connect it to your laptop to have like a mous storage interface no plug in your USB stick and this way you can transfer files from the internal memory to an USB stick this is a slow export method I do not recommend using this the device also has an SD card on the bottom and if it's inserted and if it is ansc formatted that also goes for the USB stick they need to be ntsc not fat 32 not xat storage card in there the device will automatically store the scans on the SD card and then you can just take out the SD card put it in your card reader and skip the boring and long export task strip po adap the plate and it snaps in place what I added myself is this little tripod feed and with this tiny feed it's not a safe stand but it's what I've used so far of course you can use or you should use a larger tripod we can go through the specs together it has a quite large 12,000 milliamp battery pack works for around 1 hour you shouldn't scan longer than 4 minutes for one scan because otherwise the data gets too big and it makes problems it's 11 11.5 CM by 18 cm x 10.7 CM has around 1.5 kg that's important if you plan to mount this on your drone it has to be a larger drone then some of those commercial gr DJI drones and there's then an adapter to mount it upside down and then it's way easier to fly over locations and get good scan data the most astounding fact about this lighter scan is really the price point and the entry into this Market which such an affordable device because if you look up the competition which is 10 or $30,000 out of the reach for most the screen size is 3 and2 in it is said to have Wi-Fi 5 I couldn't use Wi-Fi so it's just on papers lighter it's a rotating laser that sent out dots and the reflection of the dots is measured this way you get really really laser accurate representation of your surrounding 3D Point Cloud up to 200,000 of these measurement points per second and in addition you have four of those 180° 48 megapixel cams they call them 48 megapixels but when I inspected the images they were 12 megapixel get one in the front that's the only one that's used at the moment for coloring the point clot you have one on top and two facing 120° to the back up there is a SMA connector so an antenna connector mount an external GPS or rtk or something like this pushing this button you turn it on and you're already here it's quite loud the the diesel sound it makes is already the lighter so the lighter always rotates and it also has a fan quick tour about the user interface which feels quite Alpha and also the screen is not the most responsive especially up here in the edge es there are some batch settings if you have more than one scan and want to export it or delete it before the scan there's this important exposure button decide between indoor and outdoor of course and on bright sunny days choose between strong medium and weak which I think is the iso settings can use this slider to adjust brightness and white balance and once you're happy with how the image looks it's just for the display while scanning and then you hit can we have GPS I would not suggest using spaces or special characters in the file name and you can decide between continuous which means you walk around or fixed point which means tripod mode currently I could use fixed Point save and now it scans and you see how the scan get dense because it scans a lot and if you press it again it will stop and this is what he scan in the short amount it's my room but it gives you a good idea if it worked or not so this is how easy you can have a scan on your device okay so that's me filming with this gigantic camera it's a bit hard one-handed actually and I only got maximum 5 minutes so I got to hurry up scan this fancy Monument there you should wait 3 seconds or so and then start walking and yeah don't make the cans too long so the display could be a bit brighter here in the shade it should work so it's magic how the object appears in front of you let's try to also get the statues move slow and steady oh this is going to be awesome and after you finish the scan you can look at it some kind of detail to see if your scan worked well enough or not it's save and now I have a lot of files saved for my biggest scene which was our Castle here I scanned five or six individual scans and manually aligned them I ended up with 80 million points in my point cloud and then you need a really good PC to display this amount of data if you start scanning this way this will be the Baseline and then you have to tilt the point cloud in software to align with the other point Cloud always start scanning in a horizontal pane as I said I will have a lot of tips in the written article the point measurements with lighter technology this is where it vastly differs from photogrammetry so if you use your normal drone and just make images and have a clever software that can produce what's called structure from motion where it uses the difference between single shots and calculates a 3D model this is always a calculation and an estimation and will never be really accurate taken with a DJI drone not with photogrammetry in mind you rather take single pictures with a perfect circle and not like me circling around but even from this footage here which is highis but not ideal I got this good of a model out of it with a test version of a quite expensive what's it called I will have it linked and first I thought okay it has its flaws this Tower here should for sure be a square but it's not it's really that cute so for taking or for creating a large scale model of a scenery with a castle in it or something similar photogrammetry might be the way easier approach and here I didn't use the textures but of course it comes with good textures and you don't need specific Hardware other than your drone but you invest a bit more in the software it looks really cool for the eye and it makes for really nice 3D models but with a lighter scanner you really make a million of measurements single laser measurements and get a point in space back and you can really measure in the software distances with an accuracy of around 2 cm and with the point Cloud you can do a lot of interesting stuff for example you can also use the point cloud and convert it to a mesh if you have a mesh it's easier to get an object out of it and then there's this completely different and hard to understand method of gsan splatting so this is a lighter scan from 3D maker Pro those are little representations of probabilities the closer you look to the ground the more it dissolves into clouds but if you have a certain distance it looks really photorealistic if we go through at those tiles there and most impressively all the leaves on the trees you see how they dissolve but it's really cool and Modern Way wait to get a representation of threedimensional captures scans if we leave the scenery a bit yeah I mean here the lake looks really good but if you look into angles that haven't been scanned it's just black void you can also do Gan splits with your mobile phone if you just make a movie and extract the frames SP it's so tedious work I tried it and I failed by installing the software on my PC and it's too early for for the mass Market I think 3D maker Pro they are working on this and they try to make it accessible for the consumer as well they will have it on their portal and you will just upload your scan there and they will do all the magic in the background and Supply a finished scenery for you it looks like a subscription model where you pay 10 or 20 bucks a month to have an account there and have your Garian Splats there Garian splatting also works with just images from your mobile phone but then it's really hard to get structure from motion information and they make a combination of lighter scanned Point clouds with images taken and if you have both the exact measurement and the color images the generation of the goian Splat is faster and easier on my scans the point clouds the colorization of points with the camera didn't work that well most most of the times I just used the white version with the Shader on it most of the images are kind of unsharp or not really usable and maybe that's why my scans haven't been the greatest Overexposed here it is kind of okay in the dark areas it's underexposed and in the sun it's Overexposed again underexposed in here shouldn't it expose on its arm first it looks okayish but yeah the textures are cute I was too erratic in my movements while scanning and while capturing this but yeah this doesn't look as good as this Unreal Engine golden texture around the quite nice mesh that I got out of it I think you have to walk very slow and steady with this to get good images and it also has to be like sunshine and then it works better so let's quickly head up to the PC with the race Studio One one and it also runs this DOS prompt and don't ignore this because this will give you a lot of status information where the main program isn't so if you don't really name it this is what your scans look like when copied from the SD card you have an image and an liar back file those are the larger files lighter is the point cloud data and image is the combination of all the photos siipped or compressed in some way the main task of the ray studio is to extract these two files to into usable format and then we continue in another software so let me show you how we accomplish this we say we create a new project and it's important to go inside the scan folder to create your new project and say select folder then in the Second Step you can just make any any file I choose a good name so I recognize what the SC was about and this is the first step so we are set up and now we can solve it so solving is the first step and it's important that you don't mess up your back files the first one is the liar so lar and the second one is the images doback this is a quite timeconsuming task and I already did it so I will leave this out and and if you're really just for the point cloud data you don't need the image back file other than you want it to be colorized I for most of my scans I didn't touch these things because I don't know what I'm doing when you hit apply it will resolve or extract the lar back file DOS prompt style you see the progress better you see we are at almost done with 91% you see it now generates the AAP file and it will also load this the recalculate result AAP is the point Cloud you can scroll in with the scroll wheel and you see sometimes this navigation makes me freak out a bit because I never get it straight this is a rough browser and now you see you have a lot of points right outside of our scan range because it has a good range and if you want to filter out seemingly unnecessary data you can do it directly here in the software or you use something like Cloud compare which offers the same functionality so if I want to filter the input needs to be the output of the last step so here I should select the emap file and I will use this recalculate result say open once again I don't change any values here because I don't know what they do hit apply my CPU is rarely used like 18 to 20% ignore the GPU usage that's probably just my screen recording normally I don't see any usage there it could be faster if it was more optimized so it finished another file which is not that that's the same as before but over here you see you have a filtering result which is hidden you see the amount of data has been limited maybe it removed too much of your data initial scan data was 320 MEC and the filtered one is 200 and maybe you just want to remove what you know is unnecessary like I could draw a line here and remove this this uh points myself but if you yeah have a really large scan and want to do it with the software you can do it with filtering with sampling you can further reduce the size but yeah I really want to keep this video a bit shorter and then don't go into the detailed steps this is further reduction these normals are used for the mesh here you can color it on coloring you have to open this filter result is our input cloud and you also need to select an image pH folder and as I said the extraction of images is also a timec consuming task which I saved in the solve section but I already have it here images and you currently you always take the front Cam and then you would just apply the result is a colored representation why not doing it here he knows the number of images to process so we actually get a percentage bar which is nice okay looks like we're done so now we have this all color PCD and this gives us the color Point representation yeah if you increase the point size it looks a bit more dense here is a pavilion with roof tiles and they look kind of right of course I couldn't scan the upper regions of this roof but you get the idea there's grass there is a wall That's the colorized Point cloud and it didn't work too bad here used the results this L files the fil result I think here yeah here in shading you get these colorized Point clouds this all color which is 200 Max large to my surprise I found Cloud compare freeware to be able to even understand not only the L files but on these all color PCD files and in here I mean it also has a learning curve but in here can do way more let's just start with the PCD file throw it in there you see it even renders it better there is this first person mode here we now see that this wall is 8.8 M high this software is amazing it's for free if you have the time dive into it use my example Point clouds if you don't have a lighter scanner already and see what you can get out of it I will have download links to my example Point clouds like this one here so you can check it out for yourself okay by now you should have enough information about this device to see if this is something for you for your small business maybe if it is sufficient enough if you still have some open questions leave them in the comments below I do my best to answer them I hope it wasn't too extensive for my part though I did about two months of research for this thing but I was really curious about the tech involved here and I learned a lot so make sure to check out my written article with lots of links and informations that I gathered maybe it helps you I encourage you to check out my demo files that I linked below so you can check out the point clouds that this thing did they are not made more beautiful than they are I didn't filter I mean yes I I filtered them with what what the software provided in terms of reducing the the points the unnecessary points but there was no softening or no no polishing of the meshes of the surfaces to make them look better than they are so this is true and honest footage that you get from it it's exciting to see such companies reaching out to my experience to my expertise of reviewing Tech stuff I hope I can continue this in this year of 2025 if you found this Channel today please consider subscribing and if you want to further support my efforts in dedicating a lot of time towards these things check out my patreon and become a supporter of my channel thanks very much appreciated okay thanks a lot for watching see you next time bye for now