Vega Prime Light Lobes
The Vega Prime Light Lobes module provides realistic illumination effects to Vega Prime applications at real-time performance rates. This cross-platform and extendable development environment uses a unique analytical technique to create realistic scene illumination without incurring the negative effects normally associated with per vertex hardware lighting and traditional projected texture techniques. Supporting a large number of light lobes at real-time frame rates as well as user-definable and customizable light types, Vega Prime Light Lobes is ideal for the quick and easy creation and deployment of real-time 3D applications.
Vega Prime Light Lobes is ideal for applications in which the observer is near the source of the illumination, such as the pilot of an aircraft. The technique used to render the light lobes works on any hardware that supports OpenGL 1.2 or higher and neither multi-texture nor alpha planes are required. The Vega Prime Light Lobes module allows you to realistically illuminate a scene at all simulated times of day and to define the shape and color of the light. The light is attenuated based on the distance from the light source to the ground, as well as from the ground to the observer. This innovative approach enables you to use a virtually unlimited number of light lobes within an application.
Vega Prime Light Lobes maximizes your performance by requiring minimal draw time and offers a C++ STL-compliant architecture for fully customizable and scalable optimized rendering. The following features are included in this module:
- customizable Light Lobe definition,
- high-performance approach,
- dynamic control during runtime,
- scalable,
- works with any visual database.