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Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

Olav K. Malm

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Olav K. Malm » Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:14:49

Hello,

Right now I'm evaluating some neat piece of software that makes 3D
model out of map data for ArcView GIS. The finished landscape is
exported in the OpenFlight standard. It's the same standard our full
size car simulator use. The system is based on a 3D software probably
similar to 3DStudio called Multigen. And we will maybe buy that software.

Anyone familiar with this, and is it possible to use it for some
sim-editing ? (GPL, whatever )

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Olav K. Malmin
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Jimmy De Plecke

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Jimmy De Plecke » Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:24:23

Are you a GIS Guy ?

I've been developping applications in the ESRI range for 5 years....
It's a small world after all



Olav K. Malm

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Olav K. Malm » Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:43:25


yep, amongst other things.

I haven't done much developing for arcview, but I wrote a rather
lengthy addon for transcad as a project at the uni four years ago. But
I have demanded to my boss that I will be a part of the development
team when we get arcview 8.1 any time now.



> > Hello,

> > Right now I'm evaluating some neat piece of software that makes 3D
> > model out of map data for ArcView GIS. The finished landscape is
> > exported in the OpenFlight standard. It's the same standard our full
> > size car simulator use. The system is based on a 3D software probably
> > similar to 3DStudio called Multigen. And we will maybe buy that software.

> > Anyone familiar with this, and is it possible to use it for some
> > sim-editing ? (GPL, whatever )

> > --
> > Olav K. Malmin
> > remove .spam when replying

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Olav K. Malmin
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Jimmy De Plecke

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Jimmy De Plecke » Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:11:54

I quit the GIS world when Arcvie was still Version3.2...




> > Are you a GIS Guy ?

> yep, amongst other things.

> > I've been developping applications in the ESRI range for 5 years....
> > It's a small world after all

> I haven't done much developing for arcview, but I wrote a rather
> lengthy addon for transcad as a project at the uni four years ago. But
> I have demanded to my boss that I will be a part of the development
> team when we get arcview 8.1 any time now.



> > > Hello,

> > > Right now I'm evaluating some neat piece of software that makes 3D
> > > model out of map data for ArcView GIS. The finished landscape is
> > > exported in the OpenFlight standard. It's the same standard our full
> > > size car simulator use. The system is based on a 3D software probably
> > > similar to 3DStudio called Multigen. And we will maybe buy that
software.

> > > Anyone familiar with this, and is it possible to use it for some
> > > sim-editing ? (GPL, whatever )

> > > --
> > > Olav K. Malmin
> > > remove .spam when replying

> --
> Olav K. Malmin
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Larry Lindstro

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Larry Lindstro » Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:14:18


> Hello,

> Right now I'm evaluating some neat piece of software that makes 3D
> model out of map data for ArcView GIS. The finished landscape is
> exported in the OpenFlight standard. It's the same standard our full
> size car simulator use. The system is based on a 3D software probably
> similar to 3DStudio called Multigen. And we will maybe buy that software.

> Anyone familiar with this, and is it possible to use it for some
> sim-editing ? (GPL, whatever )

   I don't know.  But I'm very curious about this stuff.  

   Do you have URLs or newsgroups where GIS data and software to
manipulate it is available or discussed?  

                                                          Thanks
                                                          Larry

Olav K. Malm

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Olav K. Malm » Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:33:32



> > Hello,

> > Right now I'm evaluating some neat piece of software that makes 3D
> > model out of map data for ArcView GIS. The finished landscape is
> > exported in the OpenFlight standard. It's the same standard our full
> > size car simulator use. The system is based on a 3D software probably
> > similar to 3DStudio called Multigen. And we will maybe buy that software.

> > Anyone familiar with this, and is it possible to use it for some
> > sim-editing ? (GPL, whatever )

>    I don't know.  But I'm very curious about this stuff.  

>    Do you have URLs or newsgroups where GIS data and software to
> manipulate it is available or discussed?  

I would like to find some web and usenet resources too, but the GIS
world is still very small, and most of the users aren't into tinkering
with it, only using it and talk about it on a grand scale.

But check out www.multigen-paradigm.com for some info. For the record,
I am evaluating something called Sitebuilder 3D which creates a 3D
world based on Arcview shapefiles. It's quite funny, I've already made
a really poor model of town center :) Where the road are going
straight through houses because of the low density shapefiles. But
there are predefines textures and object models, so it is possible to
make a start from very little.

I'm so looking forward to finish my current projects and start on this
stuff full time :D

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Olav K. Malmin
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Larry Lindstro

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Larry Lindstro » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 02:18:51




   < Snip >

Thanks Olav:

   Where does the geo data for your town come from?  
How much does it cost?  

   Which of the Multigen products are you using?  
What do the charge?  

   Sorry about being so materialistic, sometimes it
helps to see how expensive a hobby is going to be.  

                                            Larry

Olav K. Malm

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Olav K. Malm » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:11:14




>    < Snip >

> > I would like to find some web and usenet resources too, but the GIS
> > world is still very small, and most of the users aren't into tinkering
> > with it, only using it and talk about it on a grand scale.

> > But check out www.multigen-paradigm.com for some info. For the record,
> > I am evaluating something called Sitebuilder 3D which creates a 3D
> > world based on Arcview shapefiles. It's quite funny, I've already made
> > a really poor model of town center :) Where the road are going
> > straight through houses because of the low density shapefiles. But
> > there are predefines textures and object models, so it is possible to
> > make a start from very little.

> > I'm so looking forward to finish my current projects and start on this
> > stuff full time :D

> Thanks Olav:

>    Where does the geo data for your town come from?  
> How much does it cost?  

We get it from the road authorities, to buy it is very expensive.

We're not using anything right now. But the cost for the main program
is around $50.000 or something. :o

Good luck :)

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Olav K. Malmin
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Dave Pollatse

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Dave Pollatse » Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:20:50

We used Multigen with RoadTools to make tracks for Nascar Heat and Viper
Racing.  It's expensive and a bit buggy, but very good at scenery database
management and low-poly modeling.  When we started Viper it was only
available for SGI, and the cheap O2 SGI was cheaper than the software (!),
but since they've moved it to Windows the price had come down quite a bit.



Olav K. Malm

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by Olav K. Malm » Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:19:29


> We used Multigen with RoadTools to make tracks for Nascar Heat and Viper
> Racing.  It's expensive and a bit buggy, but very good at scenery database
> management and low-poly modeling.  When we started Viper it was only
> available for SGI, and the cheap O2 SGI was cheaper than the software (!),
> but since they've moved it to Windows the price had come down quite a bit.

Thanks a lot for that information. Friday we received 3D Studio here
at work, and Multigen is on order. And I get to use all of it and get
paid for it at the same time :o. But with a few hours toying with 3DS
this weekend I feel that there is a massive learning curve to clear :)



> > Hello,

> > Right now I'm evaluating some neat piece of software that makes 3D
> > model out of map data for ArcView GIS. The finished landscape is
> > exported in the OpenFlight standard. It's the same standard our full
> > size car simulator use. The system is based on a 3D software probably
> > similar to 3DStudio called Multigen. And we will maybe buy that software.

> > Anyone familiar with this, and is it possible to use it for some
> > sim-editing ? (GPL, whatever )

> > --
> > Olav K. Malmin
> > remove .spam when replying

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Olav K. Malmin
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J. Perki

Anyone familiar with OpenFlight ?

by J. Perki » Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:16:45


For a hobbyist, the best site I know of is http://www.vterrain.org/
If nothing else, there is a good collection of links to other sites,
data sources, etc.

Jason
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