Comprehensive Life Platform for Creating Highly Interactive 3D Applications The Virtools 4 Life Platform ushers in a unique solution for pervasively developing and deploying 3D experiences on personal computers, game consoles, Intranets and the web, demonstrating Dassault Systèmes’ commitment to bringing the power of 3D to all user communities. The open-ended architecture of Virtools 4 supports a wide variety of 3D formats. 3D Content Capture plugins support most commonly used DCC software formats (3ds Max®, Maya®, XSI®, Lightwave®, Collada®) for importing/exporting 3D XML files, making real-time 3D technology easily available. Now based on the new Product-Context Scenario (PCS) paradigm, Virtools 4 allows users to imagine, share and experience highly interactive 3D content.
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Virtools provides the amazing ability to endow your worlds with a reasonably good simulation of real world physics with the addition of a few building blocks. As we will see, this system becomes a bit of a black box, but I hope you’ll find that it works reasonably well in many circumstances. The Physicalize BB Let’s begin with the Virtools Getting Started Physics demo. C:\Program Files\Virtools\Virtools Dev 3.5\Documentation\Physics\Physics Database\GettingStarted.cmo.
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The Quick Start tutorial is your introduction to the power and simplicity of Virtools Dev. The Quick Start tutorial is structured very much like a real project in Virtools Dev. You will follow these steps: 1. organize resources 2. plan the content to be implemented - what do you want the composi- tion (CMO) to do? 3. import the media; the models and characters that form and inhabit the world 4. arrange the scene 5. implement interactivity within the scene 6. test the scene 7. refine the scene based on the results of your tests 8. go back to (6) and continue to test and refine until you are satisfied that the scene meets the requirements you chose in (2) 9. release the composition NOTE In actual production, you would plan the content before organizing the resources.
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Virtools Dev is an extensive collection of technologies for 3D visualization. The Virtools Dev technologies are broadly grouped as:
1. an Authoring application
2. a Behavioral Engine (CK2)
3. a Rendering Engine
4. a Web Player
5. a Software Development Kit (SDK)
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