AutoRoad®
AutoRoad® is developed and maintained by
Princess-Interactive, GmbH of Germany. Carbon Graphics offers AutoRoad
as part of the Geo ROAD and Geo ROAD EXPERT bundles - both of which include
Geo PRO. We offer these complimentary product bundles for sale in the USA
and throughout the rest of the world. Customers wishing to purchase
AutoRoad® in Germany must go direct to the Princess Interactive.
The combination of Geo PRO and
AutoRoad provides the urban simulation developer with a unique set of tools
ideally suited to the creation of feature-rich real-time-ready urban simulation
databases.
AutoRoad® is an authoring tool for generating virtual worlds based
on real roads. The generated databases can to be used for both urban
and driving simulation. AutoRoad® builds roads in respect to roads
constructions regulations and conforms to the law of civil engineering.
Roads are built depending on their specifications as lines, arcs or Euler
spirals (also known as Clothoides) or a combination. AutoRoad®
delivers geometry and roads scenario data. Princess Interactive generated
the urban component of the database for the (now famous) AAFR German army
project as subcontractor for the consortium Krauss Maffei / Dornier. This
was a very complex road network more than 80 km in length - all of which was
built in record time using AutoRoad®. The AutoRoad® approach
is to first build the road networks and than integrate them into terrains
with all the culture data (buildings/vegetation etc.).
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