Agisoft

Agisoft is a Russian developer best known in the photogrammetry sector for its flagship Metashape software, yet its smaller utility Texture De-Lighter extends the company’s expertise into the post-processing step of 3-D asset preparation. Designed for artists, archaeologists, e-commerce vendors and game studios, the program automatically detects and neutralizes baked-in shadows, ambient occlusion and directional lighting that are captured alongside surface color during static or drone-based scanning. By working directly with conventional UV-mapped texture atlases, it preserves the original geometric detail while delivering evenly lit albedo maps that are ready for physically based rendering engines, Web viewers or augmented-reality pipelines. Typical workflows involve loading an OBJ file together with its corresponding texture, selecting a lighting model, and letting the tool’s iterative algorithm separate shading gradients from inherent material color; a real-time preview panel shows the progressive flattening of highlights and shadows before the cleaned texture is exported to PNG or TIFF. The lightweight stand-alone installer runs on 64-bit Windows, requires no paid license, and can therefore be slotted into academic curricula or small studios with minimal overhead. Agisoft’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest version and allowing batch installation of multiple applications.