What's new in SURE 2.2
We are proud to announce the release of SURE 2.2 - discover the new features and improvements!
New Features
New Mesh Export Formats
- OBJ support
- Export in parallel to LOD formats
- Supporting large coordinates (UTM etc.)
- Cesium support - new LOD format for web streaming
- Export to Cesium tileset LOD format (https://cesiumjs.org/)
- Visualize your meshes online through data streaming
- Support for Cesium and related 3D geospatial formats (1)
Soest dataset (data provided by AEROWEST GmbH), map © OpenStreetMap.
Improved Features
New and Improved 3D Mesh
- New 3D Mesh Reconstruction Technology
- Sharper edges
- Smooth planar surface
- Significantly reduced triangle amount
Soest dataset (data provided by AEROWEST GmbH),
Mesh Texturing - Sharpening
Mesh Texturing - Improved Consistency
- New consistency check between tiles
- Less artifacts due to occlusion consideration between tiles (yellow)
- New interpolation writing to atlas texture
- Interpolation, where no images are available (orange)
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Bergamo dataset (data provided by FBK, created in cooperation with the municipality of Bergamo and AVT)
Mesh Compression
- New texture compression
- Compression ratio of 6:1 through S3TC/DXT1 compression for all textured LOD models (OSGB and Cesium)
- Up to 6 times lower storage - leading to faster loading & faster visualization
- New texture atlas packing
- Texture is stored in image patches - now in an optimized manner by allowing rotations and finding optimal placement
- Based on "Efficient Packing of Arbitrary Shaped Charts for Automatic Texture Atlas Generation" by Tobias Noell & Didier Stricker
- Up to 30% size improvement through new atlas packing - leading to less storage, faster loading & faster visualization
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DSM Mesh - Optimization
- New geometry post-processing step
- Improved edge sharpness
- Noise reduction
- Improved topology & geometry compression
- Improved texturing
- Smaller file size
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| Bergamo (data provided by FBK, created in cooperation with the municipality of Bergamo and AVT) |
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Soest (Data provided by AEROWEST GmbH) |
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True Ortho - Performance Optimization
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Cloud Filter
- Cloud Filter improvements
- Sharper edges
- Cleaner facades
- More flat surfaces
- Improved detail resolution
- Improved sampling
- Reduced file size
- Support for Intensity (4th channel of images)
- Strong performance optimization
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Soest dataset (data provided by AEROWEST GmbH),
Mesh Editor BETA
- New Editor BETA version
- Retexturing of edited meshes using original images
- Regeneration of LOD levels
- Mesh exporting or overwriting
- Improved usability
The mesh editor is currently in a closed BETA. Please contact info@nframes.com for access.
A more detailed feature documentation can be found here: SURE Editor (Edit Mode).
Workflow Updates
SURE Pro - Extended Resolution
SURE Pro - extended resolution to 60 MP
- Up to 60MP resolution per image
- Up to 10000 pixels focal length
New side panel
- Icons appear when ressources are ready
- Enabling direct visualization & selected copy
DSM Mesh and DSM Mesh Texturing
- DSM Mesh step was split up in DSM Mesh and DSM Mesh Texturing
- The DSM Mesh Texturing is now optional which enables to get faster to untextured DSM Mesh results
Bugfixes
- (Fixed) Custom area and tiling possible for Cloud Filter Module and Mesh Module
- (Fixed) Change of area selection in Cloud Filter was reading too many point clouds
Deprecated
- Automatic archiving feature is no longer part of the software's GUI
(1) Currently SURE produces 3DTiles compatible with Cesium 1.35