TrueVision3D SDK 6.5 project wizard for Visual C# 2005. It speeds up things when starting a new TV3D project as you won't have to copy the files provided by the. I converted tutorials A0 to A14 of the TV3D 6.3 SDK to work with TV3D 6.5. The included tutorials are: A0 - C# Template A01 - A Simple form A02 - A Simple Teapot.

The ocean is made using an improved version of the Ocean.fx shader that comes with NVidia FX Composer. But the real work has been on developing generic physics calculation algorithms for the vessel (potentially several, but one only for now) seen in the picture. Basically, the hull of vessel is simplified into 16 elements, each with independent calculation of various force vectors. Each individual element has a location and a size interpolated from a real vessel hull. Though, in this case i only managed to freeload a 3DS model of that British Hovercraft, so the physics behaviour is slightly trimmed to fit the special shape of that.

The physics calculation is a hybrid of custom code and the Newton physics engine. The repeated calculation first resolves the water surface height at each of the 16 points, by simulating a part of the shader code in application code. Then it gets the hull's current position, movement and rotation speed as given from Newton, and applies various forces (lifting force, various damping/counter forces, centrifugal forces, engine force etc.) and friction against the water. Then everything is composed into one total force and one total torque that are applied on the physics body, i.e. Passed to the built-in Newton phyics engine. Newton then takes care of inertia etc.

And re-positions the whole thing. This is a part of the 'main loop', but i will probably later on slow down the in-code calculation to one or a few iterations per second. Note that several elements are still missing in the simulation. This is still proto-typing. I am aiming at eventually getting a realistic simulation with real-world elements. And screenshots: And just for good measure, here's another very fun feature to play with in 6.5, mesh morph targets! Julio Jerez wrote:Wahoo that is some fine simulation you got going there.

I mean real fine. Every think is very good. It can see TV6. Legend Of Zelda 2 The Adventure Of Link Rom. 5 is a bit more that a plain rendering engine. About the facial animation, is this data captured from cyber scan, or it is key frame animation I'm not sure if you mean internally in TV3D or externally in my code. I used a series of meshes, morph targets, one as a reference with no expression. Then one with anger, disgust, suprise and so on.

Then I compiled them( some funky TV3D stuff ) and morphed them one to the next in TV3D code, there was no keyframing, it tweens from the reference mesh to the morph target in TV3D - all the meshes are actually completely static Posts: 1 Joined: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:06 am. The facial animation is actually Morph Targets.

So, you take a static mesh, and position it into all of the poses you want, and then compile it using our ModelView program. It uses the common verticies to morph the model between the poses, and can even blend multiple animations together, giving a% of morph for each pose.

(For example, a smile would use the smile_open and smile_closed morphs at certain percentages.) Its very cool stuff, and is exactly what HL2 uses for facial animation, but it has much more possibilities, as we'll show off in our techdemo. That scene actually has quite a bit more going on than you'd think. Since the water is generated via a vertex shader, the physics engine had no idea about the different heights of the waves, so it posed an interesting problem for Waterman (the user who created this video) to solve. After a few long conversations in our beta chatroom with Sylvain, the problems were solved, the forces properly applied, and the boat bobs and floats in a very believable manner.

The 'rolling fog' you see was made using our 6.5 SDK ParticleEditor, and is actually nothing more than multiple large billboards, affected by attractors and repellers, with varying alphas. Another very cheap, yet believable effect. I'm hoping to see splashing soon, using more dynamic particle systems, for when the waves crash onto the ships hull.