Vega Prime
Vega Prime FX
The Vega Prime FX module is a cross-platform and extendable development environment that delivers the functionality required to simulate a wide variety of special effects in real-time 3D applications. All effects can be accessed, modified, and added to an application using either the LynX Prime GUI configuration tool or directly through the API. Vega Prime FX also allows you to customize the display, timing, triggering, and performance characteristics of effects within scenes by pre-defining and adjusting a number of visual attributes.
Full support for flat and round earth coordinate systems.
Effects can be defined so that they illuminate the geometry in the scene around them and are also automatically and appropriately affected by time of day and scene illumination within the application.
Texture animation can be based upon the targeted frame rate or accurate timing relative to true frame rate.
Custom particle effects can be easily defined, particle systems are inherently managed per channel, and fully configurable particle systems can assign effect geometry to be built in the cull or draw stage.
Support for the triggering of effects through intersections with bounding volumes; collision with bounding domains can also be specified so that particles can bounce off walls or other objects.
Includes such commands as hard stop and fade out while emitting new particles; in addition, no new particles are emitted after a specified time and all active particles fulfill their life cycle.
Accurate placement and representation of objects and terrain within large scenes.
Offering optimized rendering that is fully customizable and scalable, Vega Prime FX allows you to easily construct and customize particle special effects. Configurable attributes include velocity, gravity, particle size, and particle life span. In addition to building customized special effects, you can leverage immediate access to pre-defined and optimized effects within any Vega Prime application. And, the combination of a GUI configuration tool, including “wizards,” and advanced API functionality provides an infrastructure ideally suited for quick and easy creation and deployment of real-time 3D applications
Vega Prime FX features the following special effects:
- Explosion
- Splash
- Debris
- Flak
- Rotating blade
- Missile trails
- Fire/flames
- Rotor wash
- Volumetric/billboard smoke
- Muzzle flash
- Smoke
- Custom particle effects
Realistic effects for real-time 3D.