3DF Zephyr Lite Steam Edition

Released: Feb 2, 2016
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 06:31 GMT

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14 Jul 2026Developer post
3DF Zephry 9 - now with Gaussian Splatting!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 9.0 is finally available for download ! This one took a while, and for good measure as 3DF Zephyr now features a brand new Gaussian Splatting workflow and yes – it’s available also on 3DF Zephyr Lite Steam Edition! With integrated Gaussian Splattin
18 Feb 2025Developer post
3DF Zephyr 8.0 now available!
Good news, everyone! The new major release of 3DF Zephyr, 8.0, is live! Changelog for 3DF Zephyr Lite Steam Edition: + Support for video card supporting OpenCL > 1.1 (Intel and AMD) + Much improved support for 3DConnexion devices and their latest SDK + Added Support for circul
03 Oct 2023Developer post
Zephyr 7.5 out now!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 7.5 is finally out now! This latest update comes, among the many changes, with significant improvements in both quality and speed like never before in the quality of the reconstructed mesh (especially for thin structures), an all-improved UI and a
28 Feb 2023Developer post
Zephyr 7 out now!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 7.0 is finally out now! This massive update comes, among the many changes, with significant improvements in both quality and speed like never before and removes the 500 photo limitation from the Lite Edition! Check out the new major features in the
15 Mar 2022Developer post
3DF Zephyr 6.5 is out now!
Good news, everyone! Zephyr 6.5 is out now! Without further ado, lets see what's in this release for 3DF Zephyr 6.500 Steam Edition: + Structure from motion robustness and accuracy improvements + New vertical structure preset + Faster modular save + Faster edge filtering with pho
22 Jul 2021Developer post
Version 6.001 - 6.006
Version 6.001 + Fixed a crash occurring on visibility computation performed on old cpus Version 6.002 + Fixed a problem with camera control point selection, when control points 3d coordinates are imported first + Fixed a problem that prevented enhance filter to be computed correc
17 Jun 2021Developer post
3DF Zephyr Lite 6.0 is out now!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 6.0 is finally out now! Without further ado, check out the new major features with this video below: 3DF Zephyr Lite 6.0 Steam Edition Full Changelog + Photoconsistency improvements (speed and accuracy) + MVS Improvements (speed and thin structure
23 Jul 2020Developer post
3Dflow World Cup 2020!
The 3Dflow world cup 2020 starts next week! Win 3DF Zephyr, a Prusa 3D printer and Sketchfab subscriptions in the photogrammetry contest sponsored by 3Dflow at its third consecutive edition, the 3Dflow World Cup 2020. 3D scan. Share. Win. Like every year, the contest is not theme
07 Jul 2020Developer post
3DF Zephyr 5.000 out now!
What's new in 3DF Zephyr 5.0? With this update 3DF Zephyr is significantly faster than all previous releases and the quality of the reconstruction is now significanlty better: the new photoconsistency filter allows for much more beautiful and realistic sharp edges, the out of cor
25 Jul 2019Developer post
Win a Valve Index VR Kit (and more!) with the 3Dflow World Cup 2019 contest!
We’re happy to announce the new 3Dflow World Cup edition! The grand prize is a Valve Index VR Kit , a 3DF Zephyr Aerial 12 months license, 6 months Sketchfab Pro subscription and much more! Other prizes will be awarded to first eight ranked players! What is the 3Dflow World Cup c
11 Jul 2019Developer post
3DF Zephyr 4.500 released!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 4.500 is ready for download! So what’s new? A lot of improvements, as usual, in both the core technology and the user experience as well! This major update took a little longer than you’re used to, but we really think it was worth the wait! The cor
Good news, everyone!
3DF Zephyr 4.500 is ready for download!
So what’s new? A lot of improvements, as usual, in both the core technology and the user experience as well!
This major update took a little longer than you’re used to, but we really think it was worth the wait!
The core technology now yields even better results than before, with an all-new detail enhancement filter for mesh, a new UV-packing algorithm, and much more!
The user experience is also improved significantly with a lot of new tools and improvements, such as the option to generate normal maps and displacement maps directly in 3DF Zephyr.
Changelog:
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
3Dconnexion mouse support
Corrected an issue and improved the flat shading rendering shader
The “Copy all” command in Masquerade now works instantly
Added an option to extract all the frames from a video sequence
Up to 10x faster frames from video extraction
Fixed a bug in the keypoints animator
Degenerate tetrahedra management has been improved, and it will lead to a better meshing in some cases
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03 Dec 2018Developer post
3DF Zephyr 4.300 out now!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 4.300 is out now! Faster processing - both the Structure from Motion and the Multiview stereo phases have been significantly improved: for the SfM phase, the bundle adjustment has been improved for dealing with very big datasets and the speedup is
Good news, everyone!
3DF Zephyr 4.300 is out now!
Faster processing - both the Structure from Motion and the Multiview stereo phases have been significantly improved: for the SfM phase, the bundle adjustment has been improved for dealing with very big datasets and the speedup is especially significant when using more than 500 photos during the orientation phase. As for the MvS phase, the depth map generation was the slower part of the pipeline and we have improved it a lot using novel techniques.
Better detail - Our multiview stereo routine has been improved in several parts and it can recover even more detail than before. Improvements have also been made in the photoconsistency algorithm, which can now deal better with thin structures.
Knife cut tool - You can now cut through mesh triangles using planes (or bounding box) for a much more beautiful results
Improved UI and new bounding box - Many tools have been reorganized for a much more efficient workflow and an even cleaner UI design - to top it off, 4.3 also features a new improved bounding box and gizmo.
Export self-hosted 3d model - Quickly embed your 3D model on your website using this HTML/JS exporter.
CUDA 10.0 - Zephyr has been upgraded to use the latest NVIDIA CUDA toolkit, 10.0. This allows supporting the most recent cards. Please note that with this improvement, the support to older cards (CUDA capabilities < 3.0) has been dropped. Make sure to update your drivers!
Please note that if you are using a very old NVIDIA card, you should still have better performance now even in CPU (when compared to very old nvidia cards). If you have any question on this matter, simply contact [email protected]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGO2ex_GsaY
Full changelog:

Large dataset Bundle adjustment support (SfM Speedup)
Depth map generation speedups (MvS speedup)
Depth map generation quality improved
Improved thin structures extraction
Knife cut tool
Bindable keys
Improved UV viewer
Improved orientation
Bounding box selection
New bounding box
New dock for selection and editing
Select cameras from 3D
Update to Cuda 10.0
Better generate enhanced mesh behavior
Export self-hosted 3d model
Allowed export texture images only
Limit rendering
Batch tool can load .zep
Color comparison
Quick orientation tools don't change the scale
Detection of masks with different sizes
Mask auto propagation during sfm
Faster Mask by color
Fixed youtube upload with new API
Added button to switch to the rendering system
Heic image support
Added wrml exporter
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24 Jul 2018Developer post
Win a DJI Spark Drone, 3DF Zephyr Licenses and much more! Announcing the 3Dflow World Cup 2018 contest!
We are happy to announce that registrations are now open for our upcoming 3Dflow World Cup 2018 contest ! This contest is a way for us to celebrate the recent 3DF Zephyr 4.0 release : everyone can play (no purchase required) and we have some cool prizes, too! The grand prize is a
13 Jul 2018Developer post
3DF Zephyr 4 is finally out!
Good news, everyone! We are happy to announce the release of 3DF Zephyr 4.0 ! Like the previous 2.0 to 3.0 free upgrade, we are super happy to give a free upgrade to the Steam Edition also to 4.0! Enjoy all 4.x releases on Steam too! What's new? We're glad you asked! Faster proce
22 Feb 2018Developer post
3DF Zephyr 3.700 out now!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 3.700 is now live on Steam! The first, long awaited change you'll notice, is the support of multi textures in both output (you can generate textured models with more than one texture, finally!) as well as in input: you can re-import meshes with cus
22 Feb 2018Developer post
3DF Zephyr 3.700 out now!
Good news, everyone! 3DF Zephyr 3.700 is now live on Steam! The first, long awaited change you'll notice, is the support of multi textures in both output (you can generate textured models with more than one texture, finally!) as well as in input: you can re-import meshes with cus
10 Nov 2017Developer post
3DF Zephyr 3.5 is ready for download!
We’re very excited about v3.5 and we’re sure you will love it too! What’s new in this release? This release focused in merging major technology improvements that have been developed for a while in our office. With the addition of our hyperplane matching technology in our MvS pipe
We’re very excited about v3.5 and we’re sure you will love it too!
What’s new in this release?
This release focused in merging major technology improvements that have been developed for a while in our office. With the addition of our
hyperplane matching technology in our MvS pipeline, 3DF Zephyr is now even more accurate than ever. The same can be said about our texturing algorithm, that has been improved a lot as well as other many internal optimizations.
3DF Zephyr is the complete photogrammetry software solution, and with v3.5, it’s even more complete than ever!
As usual, we also improved our existing tools and added a lot of new important features as well: being able to export texture in exr/tiff has been one of the most requested features in the last few months, and we’re happy to have that too in v3.5!
Other tools worth mentioning are the fan-favourite frames extraction from video (that has been improved witha better UI), a new shader system (you can also write your own shaders, too!), full unicode support, point cloud filters and much, much more!
The full changelog of Zephyr 3.500 is the following:

Structure from Motion improvements
Multiview stereo significant improvements
Added Hyperplane matching
MVS Final voting phase speed-up
Texturing improvements
New shader system with custom shader editor for mesh and textured meshes
Improved frames extraction from video
Improved 4k UI support
Added 4k video export support
Added kmz – LOD export
Added Full Unicode support (also file loading and object names)
Added Autopath creation from all cameras in animation
Added two new point cloud filters (noise/distance, plane fitting)
Texture can now be generated and exported in 16bit (exr) or 32bit (tiff)
Improved dense point cloud post processing and coloring
Improved obj import speed
It is now possible to disable coloring to speed up processing
It is now possible to use unified and persistent cache folder
It is now possible to zoom/reset view on a specific object
It is now possible to drag and drop an entire folder to load 3D models
Better memory management when loading image of very big size ( >50 Megapixels)
Fixed a problem with synthetic bubble views
Fixed a crash during surface extraction
Fixed a bug that would sometime crash zephyr when applying filters
Fixed many other minor bugs
Fixed DNG white balance issue
Preset tweaks
Minor ui fixes
Miscellaneous fixes
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10 Nov 2017Developer post
3DF Zephyr 3.5 is ready for download!
We’re very excited about v3.5 and we’re sure you will love it too! What’s new in this release? This release focused in merging major technology improvements that have been developed for a while in our office. With the addition of our hyperplane matching technology in our MvS pipe
We’re very excited about v3.5 and we’re sure you will love it too!
What’s new in this release?
This release focused in merging major technology improvements that have been developed for a while in our office. With the addition of our
hyperplane matching technology in our MvS pipeline, 3DF Zephyr is now even more accurate than ever. The same can be said about our texturing algorithm, that has been improved a lot as well as other many internal optimizations.
3DF Zephyr is the complete photogrammetry software solution, and with v3.5, it’s even more complete than ever!
As usual, we also improved our existing tools and added a lot of new important features as well: being able to export texture in exr/tiff has been one of the most requested features in the last few months, and we’re happy to have that too in v3.5!
Other tools worth mentioning are the fan-favourite frames extraction from video (that has been improved witha better UI), a new shader system (you can also write your own shaders, too!), full unicode support, point cloud filters and much, much more!
The full changelog of Zephyr 3.500 is the following:

Structure from Motion improvements
Multiview stereo significant improvements
Added Hyperplane matching
MVS Final voting phase speed-up
Texturing improvements
New shader system with custom shader editor for mesh and textured meshes
Improved frames extraction from video
Improved 4k UI support
Added 4k video export support
Added kmz – LOD export
Added Full Unicode support (also file loading and object names)
Added Autopath creation from all cameras in animation
Added two new point cloud filters (noise/distance, plane fitting)
Texture can now be generated and exported in 16bit (exr) or 32bit (tiff)
Improved dense point cloud post processing and coloring
Improved obj import speed
It is now possible to disable coloring to speed up processing
It is now possible to use unified and persistent cache folder
It is now possible to zoom/reset view on a specific object
It is now possible to drag and drop an entire folder to load 3D models
Better memory management when loading image of very big size ( >50 Megapixels)
Fixed a problem with synthetic bubble views
Fixed a crash during surface extraction
Fixed a bug that would sometime crash zephyr when applying filters
Fixed many other minor bugs
Fixed DNG white balance issue
Preset tweaks
Minor ui fixes
Miscellaneous fixes
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03 Nov 2017Developer post
Join the "Win 3DF Zephyr" contest 2017!
Hello Steam Community! To celebrate our fresh videotutorial series 3DFlow Academy , we are happy to announce the second Win 3DF Zephyr contest! You can win a full 3DF Zephyr Pro and a full 3DF Zephyr Lite licenses! The rules are simple: shoot, create, and share! A Facebook accoun
03 Nov 2017Developer post
Join the "Win 3DF Zephyr" contest 2017!
Hello Steam Community! To celebrate our fresh videotutorial series 3DFlow Academy , we are happy to announce the second Win 3DF Zephyr contest! You can win a full 3DF Zephyr Pro and a full 3DF Zephyr Lite licenses! The rules are simple: shoot, create, and share! A Facebook accoun

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