Designed to meet the small arms training requirement of the US Army, EST 2000 allows training of marksmanship, squad tactical and close-range shoot/don't shoot techniques, as well as small arms weapons skills. The customer required that this training system have the capability to recognize entities obscured, yet not shielded from gunfire, by soft cover - such as bushes and tall grass. It was essential that the application perform such that the runtime engine could support this feature and also highlight areas of soft cover within a scene upon command from the instructor.

 "MultiGen's Creator Switch Nodes proved invaluable in achieving success in several areas of this project.  Among them the ability to highlight soft cover withing a terrain, changing weapons on both the soldiers and civilians, and displaying damaged states of models."

Scott Ariotti
ECC International Corporation

MultiGen Creator's hierarchy controls made it possible for EST 2000 designers to group the terrain elements into clusters, which maximized rendering performance. This control of the database hierarchy and slice tools proved instrumental in getting the performance needed from the terrain files.

ECC International Corporation
2001 Oak Ridge Road
Orlando, FL 32809

Team: Scott Ariotti, Erik McKenney, Tim Naylor, Rick Blaylock, Matt Schifter, Peter Martin, Tim Romain