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3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Nespola)

2026-05-11T14:39:38Z

3Dflow:

[[File:Nespola.png|left|75px]]
The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Nespola) is version 9.0 and brings a substantial set of new features, workflow improvements, and bug fixes.

Since we are a cool company using cutting-edge technology, this changelog has been generated with AI. It might contain errors and non-existent features.

The tentative release date is May 2026.

Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status.

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 1200px;"
| style="color: Red;" | Note: this is not the final feature list: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release!
|}

== Major features and updates ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 1200px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Gaussian Splatting
| style="width: 70%;" | Added Gaussian Splatting generation directly integrated in Zephyr

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Improved photoconsistency speed
| style="width: 70%;" | Photoconsistency has been sped up when dealing with a big number of points

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Satellite data tiles
| style="width: 70%;" | Added support for satellite and hybrid maps data inside the Zephyr render

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | New camera controller
| style="width: 70%;" | Added a new tripod-style camera controller (similar to the one in Scarlet) to make defining control points and drawing elements on bubble view images easier

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Uniform selection tools
| style="width: 70%;" | Selection tools have been unified: every subtool (By Hand, Plane, Color, Points, Triangles) now exposes a consistent target selector to operate on all visible objects or on specific ones

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Volume of interest selection
| style="width: 70%;" | Volume of interest selection is now available across all selection subtools (Plane, RGB, By Triangle, By Points, etc.)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Meshes in point filtering tool
| style="width: 70%;" | The point filtering tool now also accepts meshes as input

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | New grid object
| style="width: 70%;" | New antialiased grid object on viewport

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | ESRI tiled mesh export
| style="width: 70%;" | Added export option for ESRI i3s tiled mesh format

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Custom reference system on export
| style="width: 70%;" | Added the option to convert to a custom reference system on export for every kind of object: cameras/sparse point cloud, dense point cloud, meshes, textured meshes, and orthophotos.

|}

== Minor bug fixes and updates ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 1200px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Video Stream preset
| style="width: 70%;" | Added a new preset for sequential walkthrough / video streams

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Pseudo Mercator support
| style="width: 70%;" | Added support for pseudo mercator reference systems

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Reference system online getter
| style="width: 70%;" | Search and download new projected reference system automatically

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Gaussian Splatting export
| style="width: 70%;" | Added support for exporting Gaussian Splatting objects, and merge workspace now correctly includes Gaussian Splatting objects

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Fixed crash on merging unstructured dense clouds
| style="width: 70%;" | Merging two unstructured dense clouds no longer produces an invalid structured cloud that crashes subsequent operations like orthophoto generation

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | PLY loader fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed regression where some valid PLY files were skipped on load

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | STL import with non-Latin filenames
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed charset issue preventing STL files with Japanese (and other non-Latin) characters in their filename from being imported

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Laser scan color toggle fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed a bug where laser scans remained stuck on uniform colors after toggling the option off in mixed projects

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Circular markers detection fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed circular marker detection: the "number of markers" parameter is now correctly honored

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Pivot camera controller in Ground Extraction
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed pivot camera controller behavior inside the Ground Extraction Filter dialog

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Masquerade for orthophoto-to-mesh segmentation
| style="width: 70%;" | The orthophoto tool can now open Masquerade in a special mode to mask and cut meshes directly from an orthophoto

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | AI training preparation tools
| style="width: 70%;" | Added batch processing dialogs to prepare .zep files for AI masking and AI classification training pipelines

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Select by plane dialog fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed selection not working in the SelectByPlane dialog

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Quad buffer picking fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed offset 3D picking when using quad buffer stereo devices

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | High DPI / scaling fixes
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed several layout issues with specific resolution and scaling configurations: new project cutting phase buttons, fixed size behavior, and the camera calibration tool now displays correctly at full screen

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Path saves
| style="width: 70%;" | Zephyr now correctly recognizes the folder of the currently open project when using save dialogs

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Save As disabled on empty workspace
| style="width: 70%;" | Save As is now correctly disabled at startup when the workspace is empty

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | OBJ texture loading fix
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed loading of OBJ files exported from other software when the texture filename contains spaces

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Image undistortion consistency
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed an inconsistency between FlowSaM image undistortion and the box resizer scale factor calculation

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | GSD as orthophoto property
| style="width: 70%;" | The GSD used during orthophoto generation is now exposed as a property of the orthophoto object

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | CSV export of camera stats
| style="width: 70%;" | The Camera Stats dialog now supports CSV export

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Camera Visible Points CSV export
| style="width: 70%;" | The "Camera Visible Points and Mean Reprojection Error" section of the PDF report can now also be exported as CSV, useful for forensics workflows

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Polyline area in properties
| style="width: 70%;" | Added surface area information to the polyline properties section

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Non dataset-dependent multicamera settings
| style="width: 70%;" | The multicamera wizard now supports saving and loading camera constraints independently of the dataset, so the same XML can be reused across different projects

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Improvements to input options dialog
| style="width: 70%;" | The input section in the options dialog has been improved: hotkey collisions are now reported with the conflicting key shown, message colors have been revised, and a search/filter field has been added

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Updated Constraints / Check points terminology
| style="width: 70%;" | Reviewed and clarified the terminology, accuracy and weight handling for Ground Control Points and Check Points across dialogs, advanced settings and the PDF report; report figures and tables now clearly separate GCP from ChP statistics

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Coordinate header labels
| style="width: 70%;" | Reviewed and made consistent the header strings for coordinate fields when working with geographic coordinate systems (Latitude, Longitude, Altitude/Ellipsoid height)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | FPS overlay
| style="width: 70%;" | Added an optional FPS overlay (off by default)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Network drive warning
| style="width: 70%;" | Added a warning when saving projects or using image datasets stored on a network drive

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Updated ffmpeg libraries
| style="width: 70%;" | ffmpeg libraries have been updated, expanding video format support, including HEIF video files

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Labeled slider update
| style="width: 70%;" | General improvements to the labeled slider widget used across dialogs

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Advanced settings
| style="width: 70%;" | General improvements and reorganisation of the advanced settings panels

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Grid startup effect
| style="width: 70%;" | Added a cool grid effect on startup

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Brand new bugs
| style="width: 70%;" | Ad maiora semper!

|}

3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Nespola)

2026-05-07T08:58:00Z

3Dflow:

[[File:Nespola.png|left|75px]]
The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Nespola) is version 9.0 and brings a substantial set of new features, workflow improvements, and bug fixes.

Since we are a cool company using cutting-edge technology, this changelog has been generated with AI. It might contain errors and non-existent features.

The tentative release date is May 2026.

Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status.

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 1200px;"
| style="color: Red;" | Note: this is not the final feature list: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release!
|}

== Major features and updates ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 1200px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Gaussian Splatting
| style="width: 70%;" | Added Gaussian Splatting generation directly integrated in Zephyr

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Improved photoconsistency speed
| style="width: 70%;" | Photoconsistency has been sped up when dealing with a big number of points

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Satellite data tiles
| style="width: 70%;" | Added support for satellite and hybrid maps data inside the Zephyr render

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | New camera controller
| style="width: 70%;" | Added a new tripod-style camera controller (similar to the one in Scarlet) to make defining control points and drawing elements on bubble view images easier

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Uniform selection tools
| style="width: 70%;" | Selection tools have been unified: every subtool (By Hand, Plane, Color, Points, Triangles) now exposes a consistent target selector to operate on all visible objects or on specific ones

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Volume of interest selection
| style="width: 70%;" | Volume of interest selection is now available across all selection subtools (Plane, RGB, By Triangle, By Points, etc.)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Meshes in point filtering tool
| style="width: 70%;" | The point filtering tool now also accepts meshes as input

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | New grid object
| style="width: 70%;" | New antialiased grid object on viewport

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | ESRI tiled mesh export
| style="width: 70%;" | Added export option for ESRI i3s tiled mesh format

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Custom reference system on export
| style="width: 70%;" | Added the option to convert to a custom reference system on export for every kind of object: cameras/sparse point cloud, dense point cloud, meshes, textured meshes, and orthophotos.

|}

== Minor bug fixes and updates ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 1200px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Gaussian Splatting export
| style="width: 70%;" | Added support for exporting Gaussian Splatting objects, and merge workspace now correctly includes Gaussian Splatting objects

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Fixed crash on merging unstructured dense clouds
| style="width: 70%;" | Merging two unstructured dense clouds no longer produces an invalid structured cloud that crashes subsequent operations like orthophoto generation

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | PLY loader fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed regression where some valid PLY files were skipped on load

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | STL import with non-Latin filenames
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed charset issue preventing STL files with Japanese (and other non-Latin) characters in their filename from being imported

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Laser scan color toggle fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed a bug where laser scans remained stuck on uniform colors after toggling the option off in mixed projects

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Circular markers detection fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed circular marker detection: the "number of markers" parameter is now correctly honored

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Pivot camera controller in Ground Extraction
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed pivot camera controller behavior inside the Ground Extraction Filter dialog

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Masquerade for orthophoto-to-mesh segmentation
| style="width: 70%;" | The orthophoto tool can now open Masquerade in a special mode to mask and cut meshes directly from an orthophoto

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | AI training preparation tools
| style="width: 70%;" | Added batch processing dialogs to prepare .zep files for AI masking and AI classification training pipelines

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Select by plane dialog fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed selection not working in the SelectByPlane dialog

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Quad buffer picking fixed
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed offset 3D picking when using quad buffer stereo devices

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | High DPI / scaling fixes
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed several layout issues with specific resolution and scaling configurations: new project cutting phase buttons, fixed size behavior, and the camera calibration tool now displays correctly at full screen

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Path saves
| style="width: 70%;" | Zephyr now correctly recognizes the folder of the currently open project when using save dialogs

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Save As disabled on empty workspace
| style="width: 70%;" | Save As is now correctly disabled at startup when the workspace is empty

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | OBJ texture loading fix
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed loading of OBJ files exported from other software when the texture filename contains spaces

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Image undistortion consistency
| style="width: 70%;" | Fixed an inconsistency between FlowSaM image undistortion and the box resizer scale factor calculation

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | GSD as orthophoto property
| style="width: 70%;" | The GSD used during orthophoto generation is now exposed as a property of the orthophoto object

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | CSV export of camera stats
| style="width: 70%;" | The Camera Stats dialog now supports CSV export

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Camera Visible Points CSV export
| style="width: 70%;" | The "Camera Visible Points and Mean Reprojection Error" section of the PDF report can now also be exported as CSV, useful for forensics workflows

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Polyline area in properties
| style="width: 70%;" | Added surface area information to the polyline properties section

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Non dataset-dependent multicamera settings
| style="width: 70%;" | The multicamera wizard now supports saving and loading camera constraints independently of the dataset, so the same XML can be reused across different projects

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Improvements to input options dialog
| style="width: 70%;" | The input section in the options dialog has been improved: hotkey collisions are now reported with the conflicting key shown, message colors have been revised, and a search/filter field has been added

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Updated Constraints / Check points terminology
| style="width: 70%;" | Reviewed and clarified the terminology, accuracy and weight handling for Ground Control Points and Check Points across dialogs, advanced settings and the PDF report; report figures and tables now clearly separate GCP from ChP statistics

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Coordinate header labels
| style="width: 70%;" | Reviewed and made consistent the header strings for coordinate fields when working with geographic coordinate systems (Latitude, Longitude, Altitude/Ellipsoid height)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | FPS overlay
| style="width: 70%;" | Added an optional FPS overlay (off by default)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Network drive warning
| style="width: 70%;" | Added a warning when saving projects or using image datasets stored on a network drive

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Updated ffmpeg libraries
| style="width: 70%;" | ffmpeg libraries have been updated, expanding video format support, including HEIF video files

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Labeled slider update
| style="width: 70%;" | General improvements to the labeled slider widget used across dialogs

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Advanced settings
| style="width: 70%;" | General improvements and reorganisation of the advanced settings panels

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Grid startup effect
| style="width: 70%;" | Added a cool grid effect on startup

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 30%;text-align:left;" | Brand new bugs
| style="width: 70%;" | Ad maiora semper!

|}

2024-12-20T15:38:52Z

3Dflow:

3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Mango)

2024-12-20T15:36:14Z

3Dflow:

2024-10-10T14:59:52Z

3Dflow:

3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Mango)

2024-10-09T14:51:59Z

3Dflow:

File:Mango.png

2024-10-09T14:44:40Z

3Dflow:

3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Mango)

2024-10-09T14:42:46Z

3Dflow: Created page with "75px The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Lampone) is already in development. Since we are a cool company using cutting-edge technology, the Mango on the left does not exist. It has been generated with AI. It seems like a Melone, but it's not. It's a Mango. The tentative release date is the end of 2024. Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status. {| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;" | style="color:..."

[[File:Mango.png|left|75px]]
The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Lampone) is already in development.

Since we are a cool company using cutting-edge technology, the Mango on the left does not exist. It has been generated with AI. It seems like a Melone, but it's not. It's a Mango.

The tentative release date is the end of 2024.

Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status.

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"
| style="color: Red;" | Note: this is not the final feature list: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release!
|}

== Major features and updates ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved Stuff
| style="width: 60%;" | Really improved stuff
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|}

== Minor bug fixes and updates ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Added bugs
| style="width: 60%;" | Ad maiora semper!
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|}

3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Lampone)

2023-08-23T11:13:59Z

3Dflow:

[[File:Raspberry.png|left|75px]]
The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Lampone) is already in development.

Since we are a cool company using cutting-edge technology, the Raspberry on the left does not exist. It has been generated with AI.

The tentative release date is the end of summer 2023.

Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status.

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"
| style="color: Red;" | Note: this is not the final feature list: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release!
|}

== Major features and updates ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved mesh
| style="width: 60%;" | The mesh algorithm has been improved. Thickness is now computed automatically to maintain thin structures better.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Camera groups/rig
| style="width: 60%;" | Cameras group/rig relationship (translation/baseline and rotation) can now be specified during the project wizard.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved add photos wizard and workspace merge
| style="width: 60%;" | The algorithms for adding photos and merging workspace have been improved. Both can now work in a completely automatic mode.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Reworked options dialog
| style="width: 60%;" | The options dialog have been reworked and improved. You can now quickly search among the options.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Better multispectral support
| style="width: 60%;" | Multispectral images are now better supported. The intra-bands adjustment works better, and several QoL improvements have been made.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Embedded orthophoto and project wizard generation
| style="width: 60%;" | Orthophotos are now embedded and saved with the workspace. Additionally, you can now directly generate an orthophoto from the Z axis (map) from the new project wizard.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|}

== Minor bug fixes and updates ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Save partial reconstruction
| style="width: 60%;" | Added an option to save partial reconstructions (unmerged clusters) on zep files at the end of the SfM.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Transform dialog improvements
| style="width: 60%;" | Added an option to reset the gizmo rotation. Additionally, the camera doesn't reset on cancel, and the object visibility doesn't change when ok is pressed.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Export cameras in blender/json format
| style="width: 60%;" | Export cameras in blender / json format that can also be read by several Nerf implementation
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Gizmo thickness and screen size
| style="width: 60%;" | Added options to change the gizmo thickness and its screen size.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved 3D constraints parser
| style="width: 60%;" | Improved 3D constraints importing and added an option to specify a projected coordinate system.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Camera stations
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now define camera stations (groups of images with the same origin and pure rotation) during the project wizard.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Las 1.4 support
| style="width: 60%;" | Added support for las 1.4.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Leica Blk3d support
| style="width: 60%;" | Added support for Leica Blk3d devices.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Undistorted image with outer bounding box
| style="width: 60%;" | You can export an undistorted image with the full distortion bounding box.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Native Nira exporter
| style="width: 60%;" | Improved Nira exporter with native SDK support
| style="background: GreenYellow;" | In Development (50%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Osgb and kmz tiles moved
| style="width: 60%;" | Osgb and kmz tiles are now exported with the new algorithm for improved performances.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Edit multispectral orthophoto
| style="width: 60%;" | Enable orthophoto editor for multispectral datasets
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | NavVis camera load
| style="width: 60%;" | Support for NavVis cameras.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Utility to extract/generate bubble views from point clouds
| style="width: 60%;" | Added an utility to extract or generate bubble views stored in point clouds. Possibility to export mask and parameters.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|}

3Dflow:

[[File:Giuggiola.png|left|75px]]

The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Giuggiola) is already in development.

The tentative release date is Q1 2023.

Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status.

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"
| style="color: Red;" | Note: this is not the final feature list: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release!
|}

== Major features and updates ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New floating licensing system
| style="width: 60%;" | We will be switching from a third-party licensing system to an in-house developed one. The new licensing system will be more flexible, and all the keys will be floating, meaning that you can install zephyr on as many machines as you want, and it will automatically get a lease on open and drop the lease on exit.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New meshing algorithm
| style="width: 60%;" | The new meshing algorithm is entirely based on tetrahedra and has no internal discretization/voxelization step while being completely out-of-core. As a result, the new algorithm will have less moss and better details.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New Orthophoto wizard
| style="width: 60%;" | We completely revisited the orthophoto creations with a more flexible and easy-to-use wizard. Additionally, you can also specify the orthophoto volume visually with a bounding box.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved photoconsistency
| style="width: 60%;" | We continue to improve our core algorithms. Photoconsistency has been changed and tuned to better extract fine details.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Orient images from fixed seeds
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now add photogrammetric images, starting from a set of colored laser scans. The laser scans will remain fixed, and the photogrammetric images will be added over.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved Samantha calibration
| style="width: 60%;" | Samantha calibration routines have been rewritten and improved, and this will to a generally better orientation result.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New GUI icons
| style="width: 60%;" | The GUI icon have been completely redesigned. The new style will be more uniform and visually appealing.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Bundle adjustment constraints revisited
| style="width: 60%;" | The bundle adjustment with constraints table has been revisited and improved. You will be able also to input distance constraints in the bundle adjustment and set a different accuracy for each control points/camera position.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Control points on new project wizard
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now specify control points from images during the project wizard itself.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|}

== Minor bug fixes and updates ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Texture weights
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now assign different weights to cameras during textures.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New gizmo tools
| style="width: 60%;" | The gizmo has been rewritten, and it's now easier to use
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New rendering space transform tool
| style="width: 60%;" | There is a new rendering transform tool that makes it easier to compute transform and navigate between distant objects
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Advanced import dialog
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now specify batch actions (such as merging and make structure operations) before importing multiple files.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Text scaling on dem
| style="width: 60%;" | Dem viewer texts have been improved with dynamic scaling.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | More random crashes
| style="width: 60%;" | Just kidding :)
| style="background: GreenYellow;" | In Development (50%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Updated Rendering engine
| style="width: 60%;" | We updated our core rendering engine
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Updated widgets engine
| style="width: 60%;" | We update the Qt library to version 6
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved control points from images dialog
| style="width: 60%;" | Several improvements have been made to the control points from images dialog. Among the several improvements, it's faster to open and manage when you have a lot of images. And it also specifies the hint after the first image has been selected.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Restyled wizard page
| style="width: 60%;" | Project wizard has been restyled for a smoother user experience.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | More control during new project wizard
| style="width: 60%;" | Project wizard has been reworked. Control points and camera constraints have been unified.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Faster control points auto-matching
| style="width: 60%;" | The automatic matching of control points has been revisited and is much faster.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Automatically scaled text in Dem Viewer
| style="width: 60%;" | Level of curves altitude texts are now automatically scaled.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | (Flowengine) Additional features Projected Coordinate System
| style="width: 60%;" | Additional features and API have been added in Flowengine, such as Projected Coordinate Systems management.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New Camera Navigator
| style="width: 60%;" | New camera navigator on the bottom of the screen with dynamically loaded thumbnail for faster management of huge datasets.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved decimation filter
| style="width: 60%;" | The decimation filter has been improved. Edges and details are now preserved better.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New custom csv import for control points and constraint
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now import control points and constraints from custom text files where you specify the role for each column. Supports different separators.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Speeded up spherical image decomposition
| style="width: 60%;" | Spherical/Equirectangular image decomposition has been considerably speeded up.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Minimal overlap camera selector
| style="width: 60%;" | New tool to define the minimal set of cameras that view a point cloud/mesh. Useful to reduce the camera overlap and not consider redundant cameras.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Constraints report
| style="width: 60%;" | New constraints report tool to check the error statistics on control points, cameras, and distances constraints.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Custom stylesheet
| style="width: 60%;" | You can define your own custom color combination of the GUI in addition to the preset ones.
| style="background: GreenYellow;" | In Development (50%)

|}

3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Giuggiola)

2023-01-20T08:52:23Z

3Dflow:

[[File:Giuggiola.png|left|75px]]

The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Giuggiola) is already in development.

The tentative release date is Q1 2023.

Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status.

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"
| style="color: Red;" | Note: this is not the final feature list: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release!
|}

== Major features and updates ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New floating licensing system
| style="width: 60%;" | We will be switching from a third-party licensing system to an in-house developed one. The new licensing system will be more flexible, and all the keys will be floating, meaning that you can install zephyr on as many machines as you want, and it will automatically get a lease on open and drop the lease on exit.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New meshing algorithm
| style="width: 60%;" | The new meshing algorithm is entirely based on tetrahedra and has no internal discretization/voxelization step while being completely out-of-core. As a result, the new algorithm will have less moss and better details.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New Orthophoto wizard
| style="width: 60%;" | We completely revisited the orthophoto creations with a more flexible and easy-to-use wizard. Additionally, you can also specify the orthophoto volume visually with a bounding box.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved photoconsistency
| style="width: 60%;" | We continue to improve our core algorithms. Photoconsistency has been changed and tuned to better extract fine details.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Orient images from fixed seeds
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now add photogrammetric images, starting from a set of colored laser scans. The laser scans will remain fixed, and the photogrammetric images will be added over.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved Samantha calibration
| style="width: 60%;" | Samantha calibration routines have been rewritten and improved, and this will to a generally better orientation result.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New GUI icons
| style="width: 60%;" | The GUI icon have been completely redesigned. The new style will be more uniform and visually appealing.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Bundle adjustment constraints revisited
| style="width: 60%;" | The bundle adjustment with constraints table has been revisited and improved. You will be able also to input distance constraints in the bundle adjustment and set a different accuracy for each control points/camera position.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Control points on new project wizard
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now specify control points from images during the project wizard itself.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|}

== Minor bug fixes and updates ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 800px;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Texture weights
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now assign different weights to cameras during textures.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New gizmo tools
| style="width: 60%;" | The gizmo has been rewritten, and it's now easier to use
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New rendering space transform tool
| style="width: 60%;" | There is a new rendering transform tool that makes it easier to compute transform and navigate between distant objects
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Advanced import dialog
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now specify batch actions (such as merging and make structure operations) before importing multiple files.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Text scaling on dem
| style="width: 60%;" | Dem viewer texts have been improved with dynamic scaling.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | More random crashes
| style="width: 60%;" | Just kidding :)
| style="background: GreenYellow;" | In Development (50%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Updated Rendering engine
| style="width: 60%;" | We updated our core rendering engine
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Updated widgets engine
| style="width: 60%;" | We update the Qt library to version 6
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved control points from images dialog
| style="width: 60%;" | Several improvements have been made to the control points from images dialog. Among the several improvements, it's faster to open and manage when you have a lot of images. And it also specifies the hint after the first image has been selected.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Restyled wizard page
| style="width: 60%;" | Project wizard has been restyled for a smoother user experience.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | More control during new project wizard
| style="width: 60%;" | Project wizard has been reworked. Control points and camera constraints have been unified.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Faster control points auto-matching
| style="width: 60%;" | The automatic matching of control points has been revisited and is much faster.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Automatically scaled text in Dem Viewer
| style="width: 60%;" | Level of curves altitude texts are now automatically scaled.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | (Flowengine) Additional features Projected Coordinate System
| style="width: 60%;" | Additional features and API have been added in Flowengine, such as Projected Coordinate Systems management.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New Camera Navigator
| style="width: 60%;" | New camera navigator on the bottom of the screen with dynamically loaded thumbnail for faster management of huge datasets.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Improved decimation filter
| style="width: 60%;" | The decimation filter has been improved. Edges and details are now preserved better.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | New custom csv import for control points and constraint
| style="width: 60%;" | You can now import control points and constraints from custom text files where you specify the role for each column. Supports different separators.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Speeded up spherical image decomposition
| style="width: 60%;" | Spherical/Equirectangular image decomposition has been considerably speeded up.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Minimal overlap camera selector
| style="width: 60%;" | New tool to define the minimal set of cameras that view a point cloud/mesh. Useful to reduce the camera overlap and not consider redundant cameras.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" style="width: 20%;" | Constraints report
| style="width: 60%;" | New constraints report tool to check the error statistics on control points, cameras, and distances constraints.
| style="background: Lime;" | Ready for testing (90%)

|}