3DF Zephyr 4.5 Available

3DF Zephyr 4.500 has been released. The update brings a number of improvements, in both the core technology and the user experience: an all-new detail enhancement filter for mesh, a new UV-packing algorithm, and more.

The team states the new version upgrades the user experience with a lot of new tools and improvements, such as the option to generate normal maps and displacement maps directly in 3DF Zephyr, support for custom geoids, bigtiff file support, a terrain extraction tool, and more.

Here are some of the changes:

• Better detail extraction during the mvs/mesh extraction
• The mesh enhancement filter has been improved to extract more details
• The multiview stereo has been speeded up further
• Better UV packing algorithm during texture generation
• Raised internal resolution (The single image resolution can now be bigger)
• All our core libraries for (3D engine, Math, GUI) have been updated to the latest version with several bug fixes.
• In order to optimize the computation, mesh and dense point cloud will be computed one shot by default. It will be still possible to generate a separate point cloud if needed.
• New General preset category suitable for most cases
• The texturing generation page now have presets as the other pages
• You can bake normals maps (Object and Tangent space) starting from a high poly mesh to any textured mesh.
• All the workspace elements can be now moved up or down and organized in any order
• The alignment tools dialog has been reorganized for better usage

You can find the full changelog here.