Vega Prime
Through features and functionality designed specifically for the requirements of visual simulation, Vega Prime provides developers and programmers with the means to rapidly and flexibly develop high performance applications with minimum effort and maximum productivity and flexibility. Based on the Vega Scene Graph (VSG) advanced cross platform scene graph API, Vega Prime includes
- an advanced abstraction API for ease of use and increased productivity,
- the LynX Prime GUI configuration tool for accelerating the creation and delivery of your real-time 3D applications for simulation, training, and general visualization.
Presagis also offers several powerful COTS application-specific modules that work with Vega Prime for solving the challenges of real-time 3D application development. The Vega Prime infrastructure allows you to create your own custom development modules and to scale the functionality based on the complexity of the application.
Extendable architecture
Vega Prime delivers the infrastructure needed for the optimal end-to-end solution. Its extendable architecture supports a high degree of customization, allowing you to tailor the application to fit your design rather than altering your software to fit within a product’s constraints. In addition, its scalable architecture prevents unnecessary performance overhead because you are able to scale the functionality based on the complexity of the application.
Plug-in architecture
Ideal for both high performance and low cost hardware platforms, Vega Prime’s plug-in architecture facilitates the rapid design and prototyping of real-time 3D applications. With access to all of the functionality available in VSG while providing an enhanced level of functionality, ease-of-use, and productivity, Vega Prime allows you to spend more time on the application-specific functionality required by your project.
Vega Prime development environment
Vega Prime provides a development environment designed specifically to increase your ability to rapidly create and deploy advanced real-time 3D applications. In addition to the flexibility of VSG and the ease of use of a GUI configuration tool, Vega Prime delivers such functionality as environment effects, motion models, coordinate systems, virtual texture, and path/navigator tools.
New features of Vega Prime 2.2
- LynX Prime Coordinate System Interface : New panels and widgets were added to LynX Prime for configuring coordinate systems.
- Loading TerraVista Generated Database :
Vega Prime 2.2 contains features to help “importing” TerraVista generated databases into Vega Prime runtime :- TerraPage Loader :
The TerraPage Loader is integrated with Vega Prime LADBM, and allows users to dynamically "page" large area databases published as TerraPage archives without having to convert to OpenFlight or VSB. - MetaFlight Wizard :
The MetaFlight Wizard is a standalone cross platform application that will scan the OpenFlight files in a TerraVista generated OpenFlight database and describe them with a MetaFlight file. The resulting MetaFlight file can then be used in LynX Prime and Lyra to load the database into a VegaPrime or Lyra runtime.
- TerraPage Loader :
- Support for Enhanced Materials in OpenFlight and Shader Infrastructure :
OpenFlight 16.3, and Creator 3.4 have added support for new “Enhanced Materials” that allow users to apply advanced rendering techniques to their OpenFlight geometry without having to write shader code.
These Enhanced Materials include techniques that:- support ambient, diffuse, specular, and emissive textures with up to three multi-texture stages each
- support separate alpha texture and alpha quality settings
- support light maps
- support static shadow maps
- support bump maps
- support normal maps
- support environment reflections
- support for per fragment Phong lighting
- Cloud Shadows cast : vpEnvCloudLayers can now cast shadows on all geometry in the scene.
- Two main improvements in Vega Prime Marine :
- Marine Global Reflections :
With shaders enabled, this release offers users the option of automatically generating dynamic or static global reflections of the sky on the ocean surface. - Marine Local Reflections :
When shaders are enabled, local reflections (e.g., ships, buildings, lights, etc.) can be enabled or disabled on the ocean surface via the vpMarineOcean's API (setLocalReflectionsEnable()) or LynX Prime panel.
- Marine Global Reflections :
- Supported platforms in Vega Prime 2.2 :
- Microsoft Windows 32-bit / Microsoft Visual C++ v7.1
- Microsoft Windows 32-bit / Microsoft Visual C++ v8.0
- Linux x86 / GCC v3.4 / libstdc++.so.6
- Linux x86-64 / GCC v3.4 / libstdc++.so.6