3D Zephyr 3.5 released

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.