Vega Prime
Vega Prime, with its cross-platform, scalable environment, is the most productive COTS toolkit for real-time 3D application development and deployment. Providing the only framework you need to rapidly configure, create, and deploy advanced simulation applications, Vega Prime delivers the tools you need for the optimal end-to-end solution. And, because it allows for the easy integration of new or existing code, Vega Prime offers tremendous cost and time savings by improving your asset utilization and re-use.
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.
To view the Vega Prime Compatibility Matrix for Vega Prime Modules, click here.
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 and enhancements in Vega Prime 3.0 include:
Visualization and Aesthetics Improvements
Dynamic Shadows
Create dynamic shadows in a scene, based on the celestial bodies (sun/moon). This capability provides dynamic self-shadowing of entities and objects, terrain shadowing of entities/objects, entity/object shadowing of terrain and other entities/objects. These dynamic shadows are supported in the OTW, NVG, and IR wavelengths.
Threat Dome Objects
Vega Prime provides the ability to easily create and add a threat dome or 3D volume to any scene.
Technology Improvements
VC9 (2008) Support
Support for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (aka VC9) compiler is now included with Vega Prime and the Sensor toolkit Products.
License Borrowing
Users who are using software-based license servers can now ‘check out' a license temporarily from the server onto another machine. This provides the ability to borrow a license for a special demo or to work over the weekend if needed to finish a project.
RTL Distribution
Users can now install only those files needed to deploy a system, reducing required space on disk, as well as distribution complexity on disk.
Presagis Product Integrations
Supporting the Presagis Aeria vision, Vega Prime release 3.0 introduces deeper integration between our other products and modules.
Support for Creator Buildings with Interiors Tool
Vega Prime provides the necessary controls to support information from this tool so that users have the ability to utilize buildings with interiors in their applications increasing realism and training value.
Improved Performance with Terra Vista Generated Content
Vega Prime and Lyra include loader options to maximize the performance of databases using this database design.
Sig Size Support in OpenFlight Loader
Improved support of legacy content and database design constructs.
New Module Structure
In addition to the new features and improvements of the Presagis Visualization products, some changes have been made to the modules structure.
There are three primary changes that will be made to the Visualization product lines. These changes encompass both product configuration and pricing changes.
- The base configuration of Vega Prime now includes the capabilities in the Vega Prime LADBM module. Vega Prime LADBM will no longer be sold separately.
- There will now be a single Vega Prime Effects option on the price list that includes the capabilities in Vega Prime FX, Vega Prime Camera, and Vega Prime Light Lobes modules. These modules will no longer be sold separately.
- There will now be a single Vega Prime Sensor option on the price list that includes the capabilities in Vega Prime IR Scene, and Vega Prime IR Sensor. These modules will no longer be sold separately.
Allows for rapid application prototyping and modification, meaning that you can see changes within the application as you make them.
Platform-Independent API
Applications configured and developed on one platform may be deployed on another without code modification.
Virtual Texture
Provides the capability to render extremely high resolution imagery without affecting performance.
Correlated visual and sensor displays
Create correlated visual and sensor displays.
Modular environment
Allows you to mix and match necessary feature sets or to create your own custom functionality within the Vega Prime environment.
XML-based data interchange format
Offers maximum flexibility within other application frameworks.