3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Dragonfruit)

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

The tentative release date is set for the early Summer 2020, although some closed beta versions will be certainly released before.

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

Note: this is not the final feature lists: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release!

Major features and updates

3DF Scarlet	A new dedicated standalone (bundled at no additional cost to 3DF Zephyr) software designed specifically for laser scan data registration. 3DF Scarlet features native file format managagement, out-of-core processing, several manual alignment modes and a completely automatic registration mode.	Advanced Development (75%)
Out of Core processing	Out of core processing allows for a significant lower memory footprint as well as faster processing.	Advanced Development (75%)
Significant SfM improvements	Bigger datasets (lets say, 1000 photos and above) are significantly faster to process, with no drawbacks on the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm.	Completed (100%)
WIC Imaging Engine integration	WIC is now the default imaging engine for selected file types, which allows for faster loading times and also offers better color handling.	Completed (100%)
Merge workspace improvements	Improved merge tools, which also allows importing selected elements only	Completed (100%)
Drawing Elements Improvements	Drawing elements now also support splines, a preview mode is now available, and selection can also be done using drawing elements.	Completed (100%)
Photoconsistency per chunks	Photoconsistency computation is now split in chunks to minimize the impact on RAM.	Completed (100%)
Photoconsistency speed improvements	Photoconsistency internal computation has been speeded up	Completed (100%)
Texture per chunks	The texture computation of big meshes (over 10Millions points) is now split in chunks to minimize the RAM usage.	Completed (100%)
General pipeline improvements	General improvements (not related to the other major changes) to speed up and improve the quality of the full pipeline.	Completed (100%)
License check dialog	Added a dialog to check your current license status.	Advanced Development (75%)
Mesh wrapping with a mesh template	Imported mesh can be wrapped with control points or spatial constraints to another mesh.	Advanced Development (75%)

Minor bug fixes and updates

New skin	A new skin for the new 3DF Zephyr	Completed (100%)
French translation	New French software localization for Zephyr, Scarlet and Masquerade.	Completed (100%)
Turkish translation	New Turkish software localization for Zephyr, Scarlet and Masquerade.	Advanced Development (75%)
Compressed cache	Zephyr cache is now compressed to minimize the disk usage	Completed (100%)
Utility bar	A new (optional) widget can be shown in the top or bottom part of the 3D viewport. Point picking and quick measurements are currently featured.	Completed (100%)
Additional autosave folder	User can now specify an additional autosave folder to keep the autosaved files.	Completed (100%)
Add folder button	New button to add an entire folder of photos	Completed (100%)
Fov in decomposer tool	You can now specify a custom field of view in the decomposer tool	Completed (100%)
Improved fls, zf and riegl support	Faro, Zf and Riegl plugin have been updated to support the latest formats.	Completed (100%)
Revit plugin updated	The revit bim plugin has been updated	Completed (100%)
Orhophoto src file improvement	src files for autocad now works with georeferencing.	Completed (100%)
Faster rendering	Stereo mesh, stereo point clouds and stereo textured meshes rendering speeded up.	Completed (100%)
Zep file size	Zep files size has been reduced	Completed (100%)
Faster Zep loading / saving	Faster project loading and saving	Completed (100%)
Duplicated name disambiguation	Duplicated camera names are now disambuiated better when moving a zep file to another location	Completed (100%)
Point inspection tool improved	Fixed scaling and added an option to visualize linked cameras	Completed (100%)
Selection from polyline	You can now define selections of meshes and point clouds from any planar polyline in the workspace	Completed (100%)
Clone and make structure	When using the make structure dialog, you can now clone the input mesh / stereo point cloud.	Completed (100%)
Improved laser scan raw format support	Fls files now support colors, and Faro, Riegl and ZF plugins have been updated to support the latest formats.	Completed (100%)
Masquerade mask inversion	Added a button in masquerade to invert masks	Completed (100%)
Masquerade automagic button improvement	It now starts from the previous computation	Completed (100%)
Orhophoto src file improvement	src files for autocad now works with georeferencing.	Completed (100%)
Orhophoto pdf improved resolution	Improved resolution when exporting an orthophoto to pdf.	Completed (100%)
Max-flow loop	Fixed an issue which caused a deadlock during surface computation in some rare cases.	Completed (100%)
Improved level curves extraction	Level curves are now correctly clamped and linked.	Completed (100%)
Pivot support on gizmo	You can now set a pivot to the gizmo transformation.	Completed (100%)
Pivot support on gizmo	You can now set a pivot to the gizmo transformation.	Completed (100%)
Control point serialization in Flowengine	Added Control point serialization in Flowengine	Completed (100%)
Set CRS in batch and quick project wizard dialog	You can now set the CRS in the quick project wizard and batch dialog.	Completed (100%)

... many more minor gui fixes

Other stuff

Improved FlowEngine interface	More functions have been exposed in FlowEngine	Completed (100%)