Modelers John Griffin and Chad Tillman
created the B17 and P51 models for the Warbirds of LA development
group. Their goal was to construct models that accurately convey
the appearance of the worn and weathered aircraft used in World
War II for a proposed location-based venue. The modelers consulted
historical photographs, then used the MultiGen Texture Editor to
create textures that produced the right visual effect for the
aircraft and the terrain with ground culture. The P51 Mustang in
the background is textured to look like Chuck Yeager's "Glamorous
Glennis."
Viewpoint Datalabs
625 South State Street
Orem, UT 84058
VSM SA
VSM developed this
application for ALAT, the ground division of the French Army, to
be used in tactical helicopter training. The database covers 50 X
50km in the southeast of France, between Nice and Hyere. The
terrain was created from DTED. Other features and moving objects
were modeled using MultiGen,along with additional elements
imported from DFAD. The simulation trainer is correlated in
realtime over the ethernet with a cartographic application, so the
database required extreme accuracy. However, because of
inaccuracies in the DFAD, the modelers rebuilt the DFAD features
contained in terrain cells that correspond to significant parts of
the database, such as the military base featured in this realtime
image. Content was imported into MultiGen using digitized maps and
aerial photos. The simulation runs on a Silicon Graphics Onyx
workstation and processes up to 6,000 polygons at 30 Hz.
VSM SA
54, Allees Turcat-Mery
13008 Marseille, France
ATS Aerospace, Inc.
"Air Canada
two-seven-niner, you're cleared for push-back. Taxi via alpha and
hold short on runway zero-niner." This database of March Airport
was created by Doug Friend and Richard Blouin of ATS Aerospace
Inc., in consultation with Don Cote of Transport Canada Training
Institute (TCTI). March Airport is a virtual airport used for all
the basic training of Canada's future air traffic controllers. ATS
Aerospace airport databases are designed for multi-channel display
with up to eight channels viewed simultaneously, for a 360 degree
panorama. The scenes are also designed with spare texture memory
capacity, essential for the large number of dynamic objects and
wide range of atmospheric conditions used in the simulation. The
March Airport scene includes one commercial and two private
aprons, crossing runways, three cities, a radar site, a DF antenna
site, a fire hall and fire training center, a helipad, a lake and
river, and five bridges. All of this has been modelled with less
than 1700 triangles! This efficient database runs in realtime at a
30 Hz update rate.
ATS Aerospace Inc.
1250 Marie-Victorin
St. Bruno, Quebec
Canada J3V 6B8
Wormald Technology
This scene depicts
an F-111C aircraft on its final approach for landing at an airport
in Queensland. The terrain database was generated using MultiGen's
DMA Option along with aerial photographs, and encompasses 400,000
square kilometers of the east coast of Australia. Wormald
Technology developed the image generation system for the Royal
Australian Airforce as part of their F-111C A.U.P. mission
simulator using Silicon Graphics' Performer.(tm) Special features
developed for the simulation include landing lights, realistic
scaling light points plus a wide range of special effects and
environmental conditions such as thunderstorms.
Wormald Technology
Locked Bag 11, 176 South Creek Road
Dee Why, NSW 2099
Australia
