Geo

3D Modeling & Animation for Vis-Sim

Geo is the premiere 3D modeling and animation package available today for the Visual Simulation market. Geo combines multiple image generator format support along with unsurpassed user interaction, customization and extensibility.

Additionally, Geo provides the ability to dynamically control the articulation and behavior of any model part. This behavior mechanism allows the user to hook-up live application data to the model and dynamically control its behavior and appearance at run-time. This makes Geo ideal for modeling 3D articulated models as well as dynamic instrument  displays. 

Full Support For:

  • OpenFlight® (V12 - 16.1)
  • Geo Vis-Sim Format
  • Designer's Workbench™
  • Aechelon™  Hie™
  • Camber™ Radar Toolkit™ (available from Camber)
  • VRML™ V2.0
  • AutoCAD® DXF™
  • Autodesk® 3DS™

Feature Rich:

  • Rapid creation of 3D objects and scenes
  • Creation and real-time animation of dynamic instrumentation 
  • Definition of model Degrees Of Freedom (DOFs) 
  • Behavior that can be instantly tested and optimized within the environment 
  • A modern extensible open file format for vis-sim model exchange 
  • Conversion/enhancements to existing OpenFlight™, Aechelon's Hie™ and DWB™ databases
  • Complete plugin development SDK
  • GeoScript™ Embedded scripting language for rapid tool creation and/or prototyping

Used For:

  • Scene & object modeling
  • Dynamic instrument display design
  • Real-time behavior & articulation definition and debugging

Native Geo Node Types:

  • Group
  • LOD
  • Switch
  • Sequence
  • DecalGroup
  • LightGroup
  • Instance
  • External Ref.
  • DCS
  • RenderGroup
  • MultiTexShader
  • BSP
  • Page
  • CullGroup
  • ZOffsetGroup
  • MultiSampleAAGroup
  • LineAAGroup
  • FadeInOutGroup
  • Terrain
  • Clip Region
  • PrimSet
  • Polygon
  • Text
  • LightPoint
  • Mesh
  • Vertex


Demo Movies

The following movies (self-running .exe files that require no 'player') showcase Geo's basic interaction model and some of the more commonly-used tools. Although the movies were created with version 1.0 of Geo - they still remain relatively close to the current (1.3) version. The demos should be viewed in the order listed.

 

Movie

Description

Size
Overview Describes the basic GUI layout & application organization 3 MB
Interaction Basic 3D scene interaction - mouse controls, common keyboard shortcuts 17 MB
Texture Texture mapping tools including per-face & 3-point apply methods 31 MB
File I/O Examples of multi-format import - including  DWB & OpenFlight 28 MB
Create Runs through many create geometry tools - e.g. polygon, mesh, fan, quadric shapes, extrusion etc. 16 MB
Modify Runs through many modify geometry tools - e.g. rotate, translate & scale 22 MB
Grid Shows some of the Grid plane manipulation tools and their use 23 MB
Misc Various Light Point and sub-facing tools and their use 34 MB
Extensions The user (property) extension mechanism within Geo to extend node properties with user data 8 MB
Strip Face A demonstration of the Geo Strip-Face tool 13 MB

 

Geo Product Breakdown Description

Geo (product code: GEO_BASE) is our standard Geo modeling and animation package. This comes complete with all create, modify, appearance, helper point & line and optimization plugins as well as the Geo plugin developers SDK and GeoScript - Geo's embedded scripting language. Geo is the most cost-effective real-time 3D modeling package available anywhere today and is an ideal choice for that additional modeling seat. The Geo base product can read/write the Geo public domain real-time file format - other optional visual simulation formats and add-ons are listed below.

Geo PRO is a special bundle of the base Geo product and the powerful, What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Geo behavior engine. This adds data-driven and state machine driven behavior to Geo that can be used for complex inter-dependent 3D articulation as well as MMI & instrumentation applications. Geo PRO also includes a cadre of the three most powerful and important visual simulation file formats - offering unprecedented interoperability: Full bi-directional support is provided for OpenFlight® (versions 12 through 16.1), Designer's Workbench's® DWB (including link editor support) and Aechelon Technology's® HIE run-time Image Generator file format.

 Product Data Sheet 


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