Version 4.0 - Improved Industry Standard Support
Maintaining support for new and existing industry standards, Vega Prime now offers out-of-the-box integration with the following standards:
CDB Support
Vega Prime provides the loading, paging, and rendering of the OTW (Out The Window) scene content in CDB format as a core capability. CDB dramatically improves the maintainability and reusability of content by providing a means to use source data directly in many applications without modification to the database itself.
DIS/HLA Support
Vega Prime includes the integrated support for the DIS/HLA communication protocols. This capability is included in the base configuration of the product, includes support for Windows and Linux platforms, and is compatible with both MÄK and Pitch RTIs.
Version 4.0 - Visualization and Aesthetics Improvements
New features have been developed to provide improved realism, training value, and usability, including:
Rotor Effects
Vega Prime provides the ability to easily create, define, and render helicopter-based special effects. Users can quickly and easily define and represent blade, rotor wash, and rotor dust effects.
Dynamic Shadows Enhancements
This capability provides the ability to include dynamic shadows in the scene based on either the celestial bodies (sun/moon) or a user-defined light source. The ability to define shadows based on a user-defined light source gives increased control and flexibility to the types of applications that can benefit from the use of dynamic shadows.
Improvements for Terra Vista Generated Content
Improved workflow and performance is delivered specifically to address Terra Vista generated content that includes Smart Mesh technology. Smart Marsh provides users with the ability to match terrain tile edges along multiple LODs, preventing cracks and visual anomalies in the database.
Version 3.0 - New Features & Enhancements
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.
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.
Support for Creator Buildings with Interiors Tool
Vega Primeprovides 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
