Virtools

Virtools is a software of creation of applications 3D real-time. Virtools is a technology Dassault Systèmes. It makes it possible to as well create light applications for the Web as of the applications for large environments immersifs like a Cellar, Reality Center or even for the Géode.

Virtools is a space of development of applications Real-time, it is absolutely not a Modeleur 3D.

It imports the forms and files 3D of the principal commercial software of the market (3D Studio max, Maya, LightWave, CAD, CATIA with 3DXML…). It makes it possible to add life and behaviors to these environments 3D.

The great innovation of Virtools in the medium is its Shematics, part of the software dedicated to the code. It is not indeed any more question here of typing code but of connecting " building blocks" (BB) between them in order to create the behaviors.

Thus, to launch an action at the time of the support on a key, it is enough to slip the BB “Key Event” and to choose the key. When one presses on the key, that activates an exit of the BB, with the relaxation that activates another exit. It is enough to draw from the bonds between its BB and the turn is played!

Very simple to apprehend by the not-developers and rather powerful for the tasks of first rank (interpolation, rotation, movement, reading of animation), simplicity unfortunately quickly leaves place to a cruel lack of precision, for example in the mathematical operations and the swing angles, and with clearness on large projects where the cables mix and intermingle in a jungle without name.

Nevertheless, Virtools is today the most advanced solution in its range of price and of (strong relative) facilitated use.

Description of the software

Virtools Dev. is an easy to use software which makes it possible to reduce considerably times of development of applications 3D Real-time. It is very much used in the medium of the Video game, of the Virtual reality and multi-media in general.

Virtools is a whole of technologies for visualization and the interaction 3D Real-time:

Application of creation: Virtools is an application making it possible to create contents 3D interactives simply. It is possible to integrate the majority of the standards multimedia, that they are the objects 3D, animations, the images and the sounds in order to make them alive thanks to the behavioral technology of Virtools. Virtools does not make it possible to model objects 3D, on the other hand it easily makes it possible to create cameras, lights, curves, elements of interface as well as frames 3D.
an engine of behavior: a behavior is simply a description of an action of a certain element in an environment. Virtools offers a reusable collection of behavior which makes it possible to create about any type of contents, without one alone line of code, starting from the graphical interface of the editor of diagram. For the programmers, there exists in complement a script " Virtools Scripting Language" (VSL) which authorizes the access to Virtools SDK.
an engine of returned: Virtools has an engine of returned which makes it possible to draw the visible images in the interface 3D of Virtools Dev. It can be replaced by another engine or be adapted thanks to the SDK.
a Web player: the Virtools contents can be visualized on Internet thanks to a free Web player which can be downloaded by no matter whom. (<1MB)
a kit of software development: Virtools Dev. includes a kit of software development which gives access certain parts of the processes of behavior and of returned. With the SDK, one can create new behaviors (DLL), modify the operations of the existing behaviors, write new tools in order to import or to export new formats, and finally to modify or replace the engine of returned.

There exist additional packs:

the VR Pack:

Allows to manage stereoscopy, cluster PC and the peripherals of Virtual reality.

Physic Pack:

Allows to create physics for the play. It is used to create plays of car, plays of slips and another plays sportsman.

the Server Pack:

Allows to create network games, applications with bookstores of media to be downloaded.

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Example of Realization

Web/Marketing

the 3D solves - the mystery of the Large Pyramid: http://www.3ds.com/khufu
TeaPotters - Resource of media 3D. : http://www.teapotters.com

Range

Best is to go to see the achievements of the Virtools Authorized Game Developing :

VR

Virtools VR pack is a bookstore for Virtools Dev. making it possible the developers to create a completely immersif environment by using the standard peripherals of virtual reality and the clustering of PC. With this pack, it is possible to easily create contents for spaces immersifs such as system C.A.V.E. (Cellar Automated Virtual Environment) for example. A laboratory RV in Finland (for example) has a using system C.A.V.E, amongst other things, Virtools and VR-Pack. You can obtain information here: SeAMK. Here, a small description of VR-Pack on the site of Virtools: VR-PACK

Industry

Virtools proves to be a powerful tool for the development of industrial applications. Here an example of virtual paste-up of a petrochemical unit. The Virtools window of visualization 3D is integrated into traditional a Windows interface thus associating the functionalities of a traditional management software and the power of visualization and animation 3D of Virtools:

External bonds

Official site of Virtools
VR-PACK
Virtools on the directory Google

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