3DF Zephyr Lite Steam Edition News

Good news, everyone!

3DF Zephyr 3.1 is finally out!

Changelog:

-New texturing algorithm for sharper, cleaner texture and faster generation, alongside a new texture generation dialog.

-Added RAW file processing (.CR2, .NEF, etc) support

-Improved speed and quality of stereo voting phase and photoconsistency mesh optimization

-Added 4k screen resolution native support

-Added Point cloud decimation through points distance

-New 3DF Masquerade 1.400 bundled with Zephyr (exports also towards PNG)

-New online camera database polling method, improved camera database

-Improved autocalibration procedure

-Improved presets

-Streamlined mesh export towards Valve Destination (see http://www.3dflow.net/exporting-textured-meshes-ready-valves-destinations/ )

-Fixed keypoints animator bug

-Fixed many other minor bugs

-Many UI fixes and UI improvements

Good news, everyone!

3DF Zephyr 3.0 is finally out! And we are very happy to announce that

+ every lite users has been upgraded for free to 3.x : that's completely on us, enjoy the newest, state of the art, photogrammetry technology from 3Dflow!

+ we have unlocked more features to lite version, previously avilable only on pro and aerial! You can now access the full potential of 3DF Zephyr's technology with the advanced and custom settings and much more!

+ price slashed down! Retail price has been lowered by 25%!

+ Read the full changelog here

We really thank you all for your continued support and precious feedback - we hope that you enjoy the free upgrade!

3DF Zephyr 3.0 has been made with 30% more love than any other version out there - we're sure you'll love it!

We’re happy to announce that 3DF Zephyr 3.0 is almost ready to ship! While we iron out the last remaining bugs and finish polishing the newest features, why don’t you help us out testing our latest build?

To download and test the beta go to: http://www.3dflow.net/3df-zephyr-3-0-goes-open-beta/

As usual, all technology improvements are common to all Zephyr’s flavors, and that obviously includes 3DF Zephyr Lite and Steam Edition. Enjoy the new faster global structure from motion pipeline, the new Mesh photo-consistent optimization and every other tweak we made under the hood! The 3.0 update will be free for all existing steam users!

A special announcement for our 3DF Zephyr Lite (both standard users and Steam) users :

- Advanced mode added to Zephyr Lite/Steam Edition 3.0

We feel that many Lite users can benefit a lot from our advanced settings (until now available only to Pro and Aerial users), so Lite versions are no longer locked to “preset mode” only. Enjoy more control over your reconstruction process!

Good news, everyone!

3DF Zephyr 2.700 is out now! Below the full changelog:

3DF Zephyr 2.702 changelog (13th September)

- hotfix : Fixed a crash when importing certain e57 files
- Improved point cloud normals rendering
- Stereo speed up volume + ordering stero point cloud before removal

3DF Zephyr 2.701 changelog (6th August)

- hotfix: Fixed a crash that may happen during texture generation

3DF Zephyr 2.700 changelog (5th August)

- 3DF Zephyr is also a 3D model viewer (supported point clouds, mesh and textured mesh – ply, pts, ptx, xyz, obj+mtl, las, e57, dae, collada )
- Synchronized Camera Shooting beta (Supports Canon EOS DSLR only, Zephyr Lite up to 2 cameras)
- New point cloud streamed rendering
- It is now possible to edit animation keypoints using a visual gizmo
- It is now possible to extract frames from .mov files
- It is now possible to choose between JPG and PNG when extracting frames from videos
- SfM and MvS speed improvements
- Minor text fixes
- Added orthographic camera
- Added pivot central in pivot view mode
- Improved rendering for point clouds
- Improved point removal of point clouds
- Improved dump/crash report
- Improved noise removal procedure during MVS
- Improved camera selection dialogs
- Fixed some bugs in some formats import
- Fixed a bug that could appear when generating textures
- Fixed a bug that could appear on some multi-cpu configurations
- Fixed a bug with GPS exif reading
- Fixed a bug with undefined normals
- Fixed a bug occurring when using the Fast hole filling mesh filter
- Fixed a crash occurring when deleting SfM points and then adding cameras to the workspace
- Fixed a problem when using image names with some special characters (e.g. ì)
- Fixed a bug when dealing with Tiff files (exif fix)
- More miscellaneous bugfixes

Good news, everyone!

3DF Zephyr 2.600 is now available for download! Your steam client will automatically download this update, as usual!

Among the many improvements and bugfixes, we're very happy to announce that now Zephyr Lite has the following features:

+ .fbx export for an easier, Steam VR development
+ mesh import with custom UV mapping
+ match viewer
+ new x-y axis aligment tool

Many technology improvements and bugfixes found their way in this new major update!

The full changelog can be found at http://www.3dflow.net/3df-zephyr-2-600-out-now/

Keep the feedback coming in!

- the 3Dflow staff