3D Flow has announced the latest release of 3D Zephyr, its image-based modeling software. New features of version 3.5 include:

• • Several technology improvements including new hyperplane matching technology that improves accuracy.

• • Texturing improvements.

• • A better UI for the extraction from video features

• • The ability to export textures in EXR and TIFF format

• • New shader system with custom shader editor for mesh and textured meshes.

• • Full unicode support.

• • Structure from Motion improvements.

• • Multiview stereo significant improvements.

• • Improved 4k UI support

• • Added 4k video export support

• • Added manual orient single camera from 3 control points (3DF Zephyr Pro and 3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Added orthophoto generation in tiles (Pro/Aerial only)

• • Added kmz – LOD export

• • CAD drawing from a single image (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Drawing elements layers (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Drawing elements import from txt (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Polyline drawing preview in 3D window (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Revit plugin (experimental) (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Autopath creation from all cameras in animation

• • Experimental bundle adjustment with terrain assumption (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Two new point cloud filters (noise/distance, plane fitting)

• • Texture can now be generated and exported in 16bit (exr) or 32bit (tiff)

• • Improved dense point cloud post processing and coloring

• • Improved bubble views (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Improved polyline extraction from single images workflow (3DF Zephyr Aerial Only)

• • Improved orthomosaic generation

• • Improved obj import speed

• • Much more.

3DF Zephyr is available in Aerial ($4200), Pro ($3200), Lite ($149) and Free versions. More information on 3Dflow’s website.