From: Stephane Morvan Subject: Re: TECH: SG Software Date: 6 Nov 1995 18:52:41 GMT Message-ID: <47llhp$9p2@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: Clemson University From: Stephane Morvan I'm also using OpenInventor for Virtual Worlds, and besides the fact that there's no standard HMD/Bat/3D Mouse device capabilites it is pretty good at manipulating stuffs, playing with textures and other things. Developing the HMD is not a major problem either, since tools are available for customizing the set of objects. It depends if you're looking towards getting real-time frames in the application or if you want to record frame-by-frame on a VCR. still OI is a good candidate. I think you should also consider wether you are willing to spend some time on coding and fine-tuning your code for performances. If yes OI is a good candidate (the release 2.1 is being shipped with improved performance - from 200% up to 10000%). Also there's performer, but I know nothing about it, except that *it is* the stuff you want to use for real time/constant frame rate apps. If you're looking more towards world-scripting, then get one of the top names in VR toolkits (dVise from dVision, Clovis from Medialab, Sense8 WorldToolKit...). To my knowledge two of these are written in Performer which is also a good candidate for real-time VR animation stuffs. You need to figure out: - Wether real-time is necessary (apparently not) - Amount of coding you are willing to do - What will be the level of computations necessary besides those involved in the rendering pipeline. Go to SG's WWW server, they have tons of informations that can be useful for what has been/is being done with their products. However, watch out ! Depending on the # of Textures you'll be using, their resolution, you might be too demanding to the SG's Max. Impact. (consider a RE2). Stephane Morvan ************************************************************************* * Clemson Design Methodology Group * * * * Home : (803)-639-3755 Office : (803)-656-7176 * * e-mail : smorvan@eng.clemson.edu * * WWW : http://www.eng.clemson.edu/dmg/people/morvan.html * * * *************************************************************************