M&S Suite 19

CREATOR CONSOLE

• New mode Power Users via separate command line executable.
• Empowers Users to run OpenFlight and Creator Python Scripts on OpenFlight databases.

INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS

• Separate Draw Vertex Normals and Draw Light Normals.
• Independent control over whether Vertex Normals or Light Point Normals are rendered.
• Normals are now visually distinguishable by their Colour and Normal Length

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE

• Clamp Texture resolution for load and render performance
• Selection-based geometry rendering optimization
• More robust support for existing formats, and added support new texture formats, including XPM – PSD (PhotoShop), and ICO - PBM & PGM.
• Improves rendering speed of high polygon models.

SCRIPTING ENHANCEMENTS

• Interactive help and reference in script editor
• Several additional operations made available through scripting

WIZARD IMPROVEMENTS

• Building Wizard additions and enhancements to clutter options.
• Support for Polygonal fonts for Sign Wizard.

INCREASED PERFORMANCE ACROSS ALL CDB DATASETS

• Reduced build overhead for every block in a build across all type of outputs.
• Optimized Imagery publication w/ feature burn-in.

TOPOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved flattening algorithm & smoothing around flattened areas.

INCREASED INTEROPERABILITY

• Open Street Map Importer: load OSM and PBF files directly into Terra Vista.
• Automatically attribute typical/ common features with CDB attribution.

NEW MARINE FEATURES

• New GPU-based wave generation (CUDA).
• Wave Spectrum Energy Models.
• Leeward wave dampening.
• Improved light reflection & shading rendering.
• Increased mesh resolution.

CIGI 4.0 SUPPORT

• Control of sun, moon, & starfield via CIGI Celestial Sphere Control packet.
• Extended Entity Type CIGI Entity Control packet.
• Enabling FX on entity based on it appearance state (e.g.: smoke on damaged entity, or missiletrail).

DEFERRED RENDERING

• Optimized support many simultaneous light sources in the same scene.
• Benefit night scenes with many light sources and many lights on moving models.

SLUNG LOAD DYNAMIC SIMULATION

• Tool to train helicopter pilots with operation of slung loads
• Single & multi-cable slung load dynamics (HeliSIM only).
• Slung load dynamics integrated STAGE+Vega Prime.

EQUATION EDITOR ENHANCEMENTS

• Intuitive manipulation of mathematical terms.
• Click-and-drag existing/new terms anywhere in the equation.

PROFILE ANALYSIS TOOL

• New Profile Preview tool.
• New Profile Compare window .
• Generate report to list all differences in selected profile.
• Compare systems, logic, & implementation.

X-PLANE™ SAMPLE

• Alternative dynamics simulation engine for X-Plane users.
• Demonstrate integration of FlightSIM/HeliSIM w/X-Plane’s virtual cockpits.
• Leverage database & visuals offered by X-Plane.

SECONDARY REFLECTIONS

• Increased realism: adds visible secondary reflections to OTW view.
• Increase realism infrared simulation for: Near-Infrared (NIR) Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR).

MULTIPLE SENSOR SUPPORT

• Simultaneous support for multiple sensor views and ability to simulate & compare complex sensor fusion combinations.
• Fusion of multiple sensor sources & images together.
• Import external fusion sources to other objects in the scene at runtime.

BATHYMETRY DATASET

• Capacity to vary water depth variation with bathymetry dataset.

DYNAMIC THERMAL TRANSFER

• Simulate dynamic thermal transfer from one surface to another.
• Ability to use cues to indicate if a platform with a heat source was present, and for how long.
• Allow user to configure how platforms will transfer heat (warm-up or cool-down) .

MATERIALIZATION VIEWER

• New file viewer to evaluate materialization of 3D models.

NEW MODE: RANGE WHILE SEARCH (RWS)

• Incorporates Track While Scan (TWS) and Single Target Track (STT) sub-modes.

IMPROVED JAMMERS AND COUNTER MEASURES

• Augment simulated capacity to react to counter measure simulations.
• RGS: Range Gate Stealer Electronic Warfare technology.
• FTG: False Target Generation of radar image generator.

IMPROVED USER CONTROLS

• Antenna Aperture.
• Azimuth Scan Rate.
• Simulate Gain Control.
• Video Transfer Function.
• Emitter Offset.

NEW LIDAR SIMULATION

• Point generation from 50K to 300K per sec.
• Scan pattern types: Classic /Complex / Raster-like.
• Physically-based reflection model for laser interaction with objects material & face orientation.
• Simulation of single return per laser pulse.
• Geo-referencing of LiDAR returns using perfect GPS & IMU information.
• Open and flexible architecture that supports replacing systems for customization.
• Correlation synthetic world.
• OGC CDB Support.
• View point cloud in context.
• Take advantage of materialized 3D database.
• Capacity to integrate with existing data protocol ( LCM ).