This version includes many enhancements that focus on:

- Rendering engine updated to Ogre3D 1.8! Indeed, most available exports (including OgreMax) no longer support Ogre3D 1.6.
- Most of the 3D engine code was rewritten for better performance concerning the use and readability of the source.
- Optimizing the management of physics.
- Supports 3D sound (via OpenAL library CAudio)…

NEW FEATURES

We also integrated a whole series of new PlugITs including:

- “FPS Like ” Navigation, lets you use the keyboard controls w, a , s, d to move position and using mouse for camera orientation.
- “move to” function helps move an object or the camera at a given position.
- “RSS” plugIT, you can read an RSS feed in real time in your 3D scene
- Instantiate plugIT, you can dynamically load and unload . XOS scenes (OpenSpace3D Format) and manage game levels.

And many more to discover in the history …

NEW RENDERING METHODS

Concerning rendering OpenSpace3D now supports textures and reflection and we offer you new resources of default composition shader :

- Old Tv
- Night Vision
- Bloom
- Glow
- Blur
- ASCII…

NEW TUTORIALS

A new support page is available to help you :

- 5 video tutorials are now available on OpenSpace3D Youtube Channel and we offer you the template to work on it …

- The documentation is being updated, a partial html version is available in the support area the missing items are available in Pdf version (accessible from the menu start/OpenSpace3D/Documentation).

French version in progress

English version (automatic translation Google Translate)

WORKS IN PROGRESS

We are currently working on the following subjects :

- Management of natural environments (water, sky, sun …)

- Management of new HCI: Kinect/Nonin/5DT/Epoc/SpacePointFusion

- Managing a web browser into a 3D container

OpenSpace3D at Laval Virtual

I-Maginer and OpenSpace3D team will be on booth F8 at Laval Virtual Exhibition from April 6th to 8th, 2011.

A presentation of OpenSpace3D will be conducted during the Innovation Showcase on Thursday, April 7th at 15h.

Registration and information on the Laval Virtual website

For some time (since November 2008), we have been actively working on the integration of the open source 3D engine Ogre (http://www.ogre3d.org).

Several reasons motivated this choice:
First, we wanted to enable SCOL developers to create high quality 3D environments in line with current developments of 3D engines. Indeed, the current engine ZooEngine had changed little since 2002 and was somewhat outdated.
Rather than reinventing the wheel it was better to focus on developing a new 3D engine incorporating powerful features. That is what motivated our choice of Ogre 3D.

This development allows a better compatibility, a higher rendering quality and higher performances of 3D in SCOL.

The new plugin (dll) for SCOL / Ogre interfacing is the SO3Engine.

Its purpose is to allow a high-level use of the Ogre 3D engine in order to combine these new features with the existing SCOL API.
This project is very promising. It aims to revive the interest of 3D developers to SCOL technology and to add a more computer graphic oriented community.

We will deliver to the SCOL community these developments during the month of April, under Open Source license : the SO3Engine, the Ogre (v1.6.1)redistributable and documentation.

In addition, we will deliver our SCOL developments that will allow anyone to use this new API: an interactive 3d scene editor (offline and mono-user at first). This application, named OpenSpace 3D, will allow you to edit a 3d ogre / Scol scene and to implement features

OpenSpace3D’s aim is to help develop new 3D environments in the field of collaborative work (distant meetings, webconferences), training (virtual classroom, learning and serious games), simulation, innovation, e-commerce ( virtual shops and malls), social networks for expression and sharing (personal 3D spaces) or massively multiuser games (MMOG)… for both B2B and B2C uses based on 3D and real-time collaboration.

These developments set a new direction for I-Maginer that is now positioned in the field of integration and development of open source technologies as an Open Source computing service company. The open source platform OpenSpace3D will spearhead.
More to come really soon.