3D Zephyr 3.7 released

3D Flow has announced the latest release of 3D Zephyr, its image-based modelling software. New features of version 3.7 include:

• Support to multi-texture generation and major texturing improvements
• Sharpening filter during texturing
• Blurriness detection during texturing
• Photoconsistency during texturing
• Radiometric calibration
• Multispectral support for orthophoto generation with multispectral transform composition
• Multispectral viewer with colormaps support
• Layers management in cameras
• ‘turntable mode’ for automatic silhouette computation in Masquerade
• Full 360 degree / equirectangular support
• XMP workflow for fixed loading cameras parameters
• Keyboard shortcuts to 3DF Masquerade
• ‘High-Frequency Gain’ slider for photoconsistency to preserve sharp details
• Color by elevation in the “update colours” dialog
• “shutdown computer” function
• .Fbx import support
• UDIM texture support in import
• Z+F bubble view support
• Backface culling during selection
• Position constraint in bundle adjustment for RTK GPS
• Custom colour map to the dem viewer
• ‘remove masks’ command
• Support for 3fr raw cameras (Hasselblad)
• Filters history in the mesh and point cloud property windows
• ‘Ignore backface’ for points and triangles selection
• Button to restart wizard when reconstruction failed
• Stereo textured mesh join
• Number of viewed cameras and reprojection threshold point cloud selection methods

There has also been a reorganisation of 3DF Zephyr’s features across the 3 versions. 3DF Zephyr Pro no longer contains the orthophoto and orthomosaic features, and 3DF Zephyr Aerial now includes all the available features. Prices are now Aerial ($3900), Pro ($2400), Lite ($149) and the free version. More information on 3Dflow’s website.