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Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC) - Orlando, FL - December 6, 2004 - MultiGen-Paradigm®, Inc., a leading provider of realtime 3D visual simulation software solutions, announced that Creator v3.0 is now available and shipping to customers. Creator is a comprehensive toolset for the rapid generation of optimized object models, high fidelity terrain and synthetic environments for use in realtime 3D visual simulation, simulation based training, and urban simulation. The functionality delivered with Creator v3.0 demonstrates MultiGen-Paradigm's continued commitment to delivering easy-to-use realtime polygon modeling, texturing, documenting, and selection tools that are designed to improve workflow, productivity, and visual quality. "In the last release of Creator, I found the Texture Compositor to be an awesome tool. As a recent beta tester and long-time user, MultiGen-Paradigm has taken Creator even further with version 3.0 by including new features I now use constantly," said Shawn Allen, Lead 3D Modeler of the National Advanced Driving Simulator and Simulation Center at the University of Iowa. "All the way from universal redo, easier picking tools, and the Booleans, Creator v3.0 is indispensable." The Bridge Wizard is the newest of the Rapid Process Modeling™ (RPM™) output-oriented tools delivered with Creator. The Bridge Wizard allows the user to generate a bridge span automatically between two selected edges, from a set of defined parameters. The wizard enables the user to select bridge types, structure definition, textures, and profiles to produce a quick, effective bridge model for simulation environments. Other productivity enhancements include better object selection, global redo of all tools, and Boolean editing of geometry. The Boolean modeling tools enable users to utilize 3D shapes to cut and modify other 3D geometry within Creator. Basic geometry footprints can be extruded, and then used by the Boolean tools to make cutting holes, tunnels, windows, and doorways a snap. Eight new tools have been added to the Plus Tools introduced in Creator v2.6. The Plus Tools offer faster and automatically textured generation of primitive shapes, for rapid, from-scratch modeling. Basic shapes that form the foundation of all models are now easier to create from a wide variety of user-selected profiles for each tool. As the new shapes are created, users can choose a texture to be automatically applied to the shape, and how they want it applied. Shader programs using the Cg scripting language from nVIDIA® can now be attached to OpenFlight models and previewed inside Creator. The use of shaders adds another technique to achieve a variety of improved visual effects for objects and models. With Creator v3.0, users can export to previous versions of OpenFlight enabling them to take advantage of the up-to-date features and capabilities, despite the fact that they may be locked into a particular older version of OpenFlight that their deployed program uses. Creator v3.0 can export out to earlier versions as far back as v15.4. The Copy Model feature organizes and re-publishes individual or whole libraries of OpenFlight files to whichever version from v15.4 to v16 of OpenFlight that is preferred. "Creator v3.0 has many new features designed to improve users' productivity and speed workflow, including significant new capabilities and improvements to existing tools, Said Todd Griffith, director of product management for modeling tools at MultiGen-Paradigm. "In addition, there are many general performance improvements." Pricing and Availability About MultiGen-Paradigm All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies For more information, press only:
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