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

More Info :

http://barcamp.pbworks.com/virtualworldscamp

• Project management consulting
• Custom development
• Training
• Integration and server installation

Our production and R & D teams (project managers, engineers, developers and technicians) are at your service.
Feel free to contact us directly for more information.

Car Showroom online demo (if you got a microphone, you can now change colors by voice!)

Based on the 3D rendering Engine “Ogre 3D”, OpenSpace3D allows you to create full 3D applications by assembling functions to create interactions. A player is available to distribute created applications: the OpenSpace3d player.

Now available ! OpenSpace3D Editor first alpha release.

OpenSpace3D Editor needs the Scol Voy@ger 6.0 to run.

Get the Scol Voy@ger 6.0 first at www.scolring.org or directly : Here

Then Download and install OpenSpace3D Editor : Here

3D Editor:

The 3D Editor allows you to transform 3D Objects by modifying position, rotation and scale.

Editing Functions:

The Editing functions allow you to create links between the functions to add interactions in the 3D environment.

A link is the connection of an event of a function to an action of another or the same function.

Available Functions in the OpenSpace3D Editor :

Object Link allows to create a click on an object

Open Url allows to open an url

Flash allows view Flash content on a 3D object.

Basic Navigation allows to activate the movement of the camera in first person mode.

Set active camera allows  to change the camera used.

Animation allows to read or stop an animation.

Distance allows to trigger an event when one enters or leaves an area around an object.

Timer allows to trigger two events as alternative.

Sound allows to trigger a sound when launching the application or during the “play”.

Rotate allows to apply a rotation on an object or a node.

Light allows to activate or deactivate a light dynamically.

Hide allows to hide or show an element in the 3d.

SCOL/Ogre: 3D Rendering and 3D Management

Technical features of the SO3Engine based on the Ogre 3D Engine

N.B: All this features have been integrated in SCOL Language, but only the features in Bold are available into the OpenSpace3d Editor (alpha version).

General Features -  Architecture and MiddleWare

• Full Compatibility DirectX/OpenGL
• Dynamic Resource Management

Scene Management - Scene Graph Management

• Hierarchical scene graph and Scene Node Management
• Scene querying features
• XML format .scene to describe Scene or Object Groups : easy to merge

Physics - Newton Physics

• Collision detection, Gravity, forces, inerty and velocity

Lighting – Realistic Lighting

• Can have an unlimited number of lights in the scene
  
• Supported through vertex and fragment programs
  
• Lightmap

Shadows - Shadow Mapping, Shadow Volume

• Shadow Techniques supported: modulative stencil, modulative projective
• Multiple stencil shadow optimisations, including vertex program extrusion, zpass and zfail methods,Texture shadows fade out at far distance

Texturing -  Textures Features

• Unlimited multitexturing
• Automatic Texture Compression
• Supports PNG, JPEG, TGA, BMP and DDS image files and Video Textures

Shaders - Vertex, Pixel, High Level

• Supports vertex and fragment programs (shaders), both low-level programs (assembler), and high-level programs (Cg,DirectX9 HLSL or GLSL)

Animation - Animations into Scene

• Skeletal animations, variable bone weight skinning,
• Unlimited bones per skeleton
• Node Animations
• Vertex Animations and Facial animations

Meshes – Mesh Loading, Skinning, Progressive

• Hardware-accelerated skinning
• Automatic Mesh LOD
  
• Flexible mesh data formats accepted
  
• Export from many modelling tools including Sketchup, 3D Studio Max, Maya, Blender and Wings3D.

Special Effects - Usual effects for realistic rendering

• Special Effects : Environment Mapping,Water effect, Cartoon..
• Fog, skyboxes, skyplanes and skydomes Management

Rendering - Rendering features

• Loader for material Scripts and Scriptable multipass rendering for materials
  
• Transparent objects automatically managed
  
• Fullscreen rendering and Anti Aliasing