Paris, France - Bionatics, the world leader in 3D plant modeling and simulation, launches REALnat® Premium™ as a plug-in to MultiGen-Paradigm®'s MultiGen® Creator™. MultiGen Creator is a comprehensive toolset for the rapid generation of optimized object models, high fidelity terrain and synthetic environments for use in real-time 3D visual simulation, simulation based training, and urban simulation. The REALnat product line will have a new volumetric plant modeling tool optimized for MultiGen Creator with fine tuning options and animation capabilities designed to meet the demanding need for realism in the military and civil simulation industry.

REALnat Premium for MultiGen Creator aims to solve three main issues for military and civil simulation :

• Increase realism and the feeling of immersion in real time 3D scenes,
• Offer technological innovation without disrupting existing workflows,
• Bring more interactivity with vegetation in all military training systems such as wind, collision, penetrability, infrared…etc.

The key REALnat Premium functionality for MultiGen Creator is:

Simulation of many species of plants
REALnat Premium for MultiGen Creator automatically generates simple 3D geometric forms of plants adapted for real-time simulations. These plants are selected from a geo-specific plant library. Their exact age, season, number of models and variations are processed through a series of calculations. Once these basic parameters are set, a realistic variety of the same plant is generated.

Automatic level of detail
REALnat Premium for MultiGen Creator automatically generates multiple levels of detail (LOD) with simple or complex resolutions. The complexity of the LOD may be tuned in terms of polygons, texture resolution and switching distance between two LOD. Once the tuning is set, the plant can be exported to MultiGen Creator with the LOD node.

LOD template generator
You can describe and tune precisely the construction parameters of your LOD according to the display capacities of your real-time engine and save them into a profile, which can then be used on other plants or projects resulting in saved production time.

Realtime animation
Simulate wind, rotor wash effect or a light breeze in the landscape in realtime. REALnat Premium for MultiGen Creator can export an embedded skeleton, which will then be animated within Vega Prime™ using a specific Bionatics' API.

Prices and availability:
REALnat Premium for MultiGen Creator plug-in is available for Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional and 2000 Professional users. The REALnat Premium for MultiGen Creator plug-in is sold exclusively through MultiGen-Paradigm's global distribution channel.