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News Release from: Dassault Systemes | Subject: Virtools 4.1
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 February 2008
3D software enables complex
interactivity
Highlights of Virtools 4.1 include better platform support, improved virtual reality and artificial intelligence libraries, as well as key usability enhancements.
Dassault Systemes has upgraded its Virtools platform for creating highly interactive 3D applications Highlights of Virtools 4.1 include better platform support, improved virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) libraries, as well as key usability enhancements
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Providing every Virtools platform user with robust solutions for creating and experiencing real-time 3D applications with complex interactivity is one of our priorities", says Lynne Wilson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, 3DVIA Online, Dassault Systemes.
"This technological evolution is based on market needs and client feedback as well as technical advancements in the online and VR fields".
This release features key enhancements that make learning and producing 3D applications with Virtools even easier.
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Virtools 4.1 and 3D Life Player are now compatible with Microsoft Vista and 3D XML V4.
In addition, the Virtools SDK is moving to Visual Studio.net 2005.
One much awaited feature for Virtools is the ability to instantiate a behaviour graph that is introduced through a new "call behaviour" building block.
Using this new feature, developers will be able to considerably improve production workflow and delivery time.
Virtools 4.1 also provides rich ergonomic and schematic improvements as well as new commented video tutorials, significantly shortening the Virtools 4.1 learning curve.
Both the Virtools VR Library and the VR Publisher model have evolved to respond to VR community feedback.
The simpler publishing model is now available in two versions: "classic", targeted to mainstream VR displays (simple stereo HMDs or walls) or "unlimited", supporting higher-end systems, including multiple GPUs or clusters.
This new VR Pack 2.5 also provides better clustering support, improving synchronisation performance and quality when using Nvidia Quadro Fx G-Sync hardware, and better supporting multipipe and multicore systems.
It also includes new ready-to-use application templates (VRNR), provides support for recent VR devices like Natural Point Optitrack and Xsens MTi/MTx, and adds numerous development and deployment time-savers.
New demos have been included, enabling new users and integrators to even better demonstrate the power of their VR equipment.
Partnering with Kynogon, Virtools 4.1 provides integration of a new AI library 2.0, which simplifies path-finding generation and design of nonplayable characters' behaviours.
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