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.
