SERA Animation
The "SERA Animation" is an application to view and analyse the
behavior of land
vehicles. I wrote this application while working for the SERA-CD
company. The animation application is part of a larger project named
"Prosper".
Prosper
is a software package to analyse vehicle behavior aimed at engineers
designing
cars, trucks and other vehicles.
There are two possible ways of using the SERA Animation
- to view data recorded during a simulation computation.
- as the display of a real-time simulator
Features of the Animation include:
- Multiple Vehicle display
- Multiple simultaneous views
- Dynamic choice of rendering toolkit: Direct 3D
or straight OpenGL
- Graphic data display
- 3D representation of Forces applied to the vehicle
- Engine/Tyre sound
- Flexible configuration of vehicles and environment using 3D
models
(3DStudio
/ Open Flight etc...)
- Network connections for the real-time simulator
- support for exotic vehicles: 10 wheeler, track vehicles, towed
vehicles,
freight etc...
- advanced animation options: full screen anti-aliasing, volumetric
shadows, cubemap reflections, tire tracks, from
wire frame rendering to textured and smoothed surfaces...
- Large choice of camera views: inside, fixed/vehicle,
fixed/ground,
above...
- AVI video recording
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Black Lake
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Road Train |
Formula 1
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