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Plug-ins
Name Version Date Description Requires Download
Make Externals 1.5 08/04 The Make Externals plug-in tool allows you remove selected nodes from a database and move them to external files. Creator 2.4+
Look At Polygon 1.0 06/04 Moves the eyepoint to look directly at the selected polygon such that the eyepoint will be orthogonal to the polygon Creator 2.4+
 
Select Faces with No Area 1.1.1 04/04 The Select Faces with No Area plug-in locates all polygons in a database that are comprised of colinear vertices and have no area. Creator 2.4+
Multiple External Reference 1.3 03/04 The Multiple External Reference (MER) plug-in allows you to bring multiple external OpenFlight databases into the currently open database as external references or pure geometry. Creator 2.4+
Combine Light Points 1.2 02/04 The Combine Light Points plug-in tool for combines multiple light point nodes into a single light point node. Creator 2.4+
Extend Edges 1.0 12/03 The Extend Edges plug-in tool allows you extend two edges of polygons until they intersect. Creator 2.4+
Modify LOD Centers 1.2 10/03 The Modify LOD Centers plug-in allows you to visually manipulate multiple LOD centers at once. Creator 2.4+
Extrude Edge 1.1 09/03 The Extrude Edges plug-in allows you extrude individual edges into four-sided polygons. Creator 2.4+
Insert Random Color 1.0 08/03 The Insert Random Color plug-in allows you to quickly insert random colors to polygons in a database. Creator 2.4+
Normals Follow String 1.1 07/03 The Normals Follow String plug-in automatically sets the normals of light points so that each light point vertex's normal points to the next light point vertex Creator 2.4+
Nest LODs 1.1 07/03 The Nest LODs tool will re-organize LODs in the hierarchy to minimize the number of top level LOD nodes. Creator 2.4+
Raise Transformation 1.0 07/03 The Raise Transformation plug-in tool allows you to move transformations (matrices) from given nodes up the hierarchy to their parent nodes. Creator 2.4+
Change Paths 1.2 06/03 The Change Paths plug-in allows you to change the root path for all textures and/or external references in multiple OpenFlight databases at once. Absolute and relative paths are allowed. Creator 2.4+
Construct Edge Curve 1.0 06/03 The Construct Edge Curve allows you to create a user defined number of construction points along a bezier curve. Creator 2.4+
SmoothIT 1.2 06/03 The SmoothIT plug-in smooths existing geometry by adding polygons to the model. Creator 2.2+
Position by Transform 1.0 05/03 The Position by Transform plug-in tool will move geometry to the origin then place a transformation on the geometry to move it back to its original position. Creator 2.4+
Set Header Extents 1.0.1 05/03 The Set Header Extent plug-in tool for MultiGen Creator allows you to quickly set/update the Southeast and Northwest extents of the database in the OpenFlight header metadata. Creator 2.4+
Construction Toolkit 1.0 03/03 The Construction Toolkit plug-in is a set of tools that generate helpful construction points for you as a database engineer. This plug-in set contains Calculate Average Vertex (place a construction point at the center of geometry), Vertex to Construction (convert vertices to construction points), and Bounder (construct many useful construction points/edges for given geometry). Creator 2.4+
IntersectGen 1.0 02/03 The IntersectGen plug-in tool allows you to create an intersection from two quadrilaterals that cross, or nearly cross. Creator 2.4+
Connect Edges 1.0 02/03 The Connect Edges plug-in tool allows you to easily connect two edges with a bezier curve and apply attributes and textures to the new geometry. Creator 2.4+
Points To String 1.0 01/03 The Light Points to String plug-in tool allows you to convert existing light points in a database into light strings. Creator 2.4+
Select Faces with Unfound Textures 1.0 01/03 The Select Faces with Unfound Textures plug-in tool will search through a database or current selection list and select only polygons that have a textures applied to them that cannot be found on disk. Creator 2.4+
Scale LODs 1.0 11/02 The Scale LODs plug-in tool for MultiGen Creator allows you to quickly change multiple LOD switch in/out and transition distances by scaling their existing values by some number. Creator 2.4+
Shift UVs 1.1 10/02 The Shift UVs plug-in tool allows you to quickly shift all vertex UVs in a select list or in the database. This means that if the UVs of a polygon are in the range 10.0 - 10.8, this tool will set them to the range 0.0 - 0.8. Creator 2.4+
Quick Map Quads 1.2 10/02 The Quick Map Quad plug-in allows you to quickly apply a texture to a quad (any polygon with four vertices) and alter the UV settings in the four corners of the quad. Creator 2.4+
Move Patterns 1.0 09/02 The Move Patterns plug-in allows you to move all textures from one texture bank to another texture back within the same OpenFlight file. Creator 2.4+
Subdivide Smoothly 1.0.1 06/02 The Subdivide Smoothly plug-in subdivides all selected polygons with three or four sides by connecting the midpoints of their edges, and moves the midpoints up along a bezier curve calculated from the endpoints and their normals. Creator 2.2+
Convert Textures 1.2 05/02 The Convert Textures plug-in walks through the texture palettes of any number of OpenFlight files, converts images of non-SGI formats (jpg, gif, tga, etc.) to SGI formats (rgb, rgba, int or inta) and can also resize the images to powers of two in width and height. Creator 2.4+
Generate LightString LODs 1.0.3 05/02 The Generate LightString LODs plug-in allows you to create up to four lower levels of detail for existing light points/strings in a database. New LODs can be either substitutive or additive. Creator 2.4+
String to Points 1.2 03/02 The String to Points plug-in converts light strings to light points. Creator 2.4+
Rename Duplicate Node Names 1.0.2 03/02 The Rename Duplicate Node Names plug-in searches through a database for any two or more nodes that have the same name (ID) and renames any duplicates found. Creator 2.4+
Tile Texture 1.2.2 03/02 The Tile Texture plug-in allows you to apply a texture to selected faces by entering the number of repetitions in U and V you want to cover the geometry. Creator 2.4+
Draw LOD Center 1.0 03/02 The Draw LOD Center plug-in displays the LOD center for a selected LOD node by placing a construction vertex at the exact LOD center. Creator 2.4+
Circle from 2 Lines 1.0.1 11/01 The Circle from 2 Lines plug-in gives you a new method to create a circle in Creator. You position two lines (four points) which are to be tangent to the circle, and specify a radius for the circle. Creator 2.4+
Circle from 3 Points 1.1 10/01 The Circle from 3 Points plug-in gives you a new method to create a circle in Creator. You position three points that lie of the edge of the circle and the tool will create a circle to fit the three points. Creator 2.4+
Intersection of Trackplane and Polygon 1.0 10/01 The Intersection of Trackplane and Polygon plug-in will place a construction edge along the intersection of a polygon and the trackplane (grid). Creator 2.4+
Combine Transforms 1.1 10/01 The Combine Transforms plug-in will allow you to merge multiple transforms into either (A) a single general matrix or (B) as few unique transorms as possible (e.g. three translates and two rotates will be simplified to one translate and one rotate). Creator 2.4+
Comment Search 1.1 10/01 The Comment Search plug-in allows you to search through a database for any node(s) that contain a certain text in their comment field. Creator 2.4+
Select by Position 1.0 10/01 The Select by Position plug-in allows you to search for geometry based on it's XYZ position. Creator 2.4+
Subface Maker 1.0 08/01 The Subface Maker plug-in creates a subface for all selected geometry in a database, the subfaces are exact duplicates of the polygons themselves. Creator 2.4+
Vertex Position 1.0 08/01 The Vertex Position plug-in will remember where polygons (vertices) are located, so you can move them around (usually to texture them easier) then use the tool to put them back where they originally were. Creator 2.4+
Spherical Project Plus 1.0 07/01 The Spherical Project Plus plug-in is an enhanced version of the standard Spherical Project texturing tool in Creator. This version allows you to rotate the texture once it is applied to the geometry in order to align it properly. Creator 2.4+
Extract Subface 1.0 07/01 The Extract Subface plug-in searches takes each subface it finds and re-parents it to its parent's parent (so that it becomes a sibling of it's former superface) and offsets it a user defined distance from it's original position along the polygon normal. Creator 2.4+
Radial Project Plus 1.0 06/01 The Radial Project Plus plug-in is an enhanced version of the standard Radial Project texturing tool in Creator. This version allows you to rotate the texture once it is applied to the geometry in order to align it properly. Creator 2.4+
Replace ID 1.0 01/01 The Replace ID plug-in allows you to search for a string in node ID's (names) and replace it with another string. You could, for example, replace 'car' with 'auto' so that a node named 'mycar' becomes 'myauto'. Also handy for batch changing of external reference paths. Creator 2.4+
Rename Nodes 1.0 01/01 The Rename Nodes plug-in allows you to rename all nodes in a database to a user specified prefix with a integer postfix (e.g. node1, node2, node3, etc.) Creator 2.4+

OpenFlight
Applications
Name Version Date Description Requires Download
TerraPage Converter 1.2 11/06 The TerraPage converter is a standalone tool that will convert an existing TXP archive into the following formats that will enable interoperability with all of MultiGen-Paradigm products:
  1. Geometry: Terrain tiles are converted to OpenFlight and described with MetaFlight as Geometry Grid Datasets. This enables the import into both Creator Terrain Studio and Vega Prime
  2. Textures: Converted to RGB or DDS which can then be read directly into both Creator and Vega Prime and imported into CTS via MetaFlight. Once imported, terrain textures can be used to create a Virtual Texture in CTS.
  3. Compiled format: Geometry and textures can also be described by MetaFlight as VSB
TerraPage API dll
OpenFlight API Info 1.2 07/05 The OpenFlight API Info tool checks the system paths for copies of the OpenFlight API. OpenFlight DLLs 2.0+
Batch Attr Edit 1.2.1 08/04 Batch Attribute Editor is a Java/OpenFlight API application that allows you to edit multiple texture attribute (*.attr) files at once. Full source code is included. OpenFlight DLLs 2.4+
Java VM 1.3.1+
E&S to OpenFlight color converter 1.0.1 03/03 The E&S to OpenFlight color converter tool reads in an ASCII E&S color palette and writes out the palette in OpenFlight color palette format, for use with MultiGen-Paradigm tools. OpenFlight DLLs 2.4+
Multiple External Reference 2.0 08/02 The Multiple External Reference tool creates an OpenFlight file (master file) and attaches other OpenFlight files found in a user defined directory as external references. It can also create a quad-tree hierarchy if you wish, as well as use relative paths for xRefs. OpenFlight DLLs 2.4+

Vega Prime
Applications
Name Version Date Description Requires Download
vpBonusPack 2.1.5 6/07
The vpBonusPack for Vega Prime 2.1 contains the following modules, each with API, GUI, and docs:
vpOscillator - repeating motion position strategies
vpAction - run-time events and actions thru LynX Prime
vpVolume - positionable visualization volumes
vpTrail - visualize an object's past position history
vpMovie - record an AVI of your simulation
vpRecordPlayback - record and playback object and eyepoint positions
vpSmooth - smooths the motion of objects and eyepoints
vpPosStrat - self-propelled vehicle motion
vpWheelDrive - makes wheels turn based on vehicle speed
vpSimControl - start/stop/pause/reset the simulation
vpFunctionDriver - drive an object or DOF thru a function with input from a slider, oscillator, or another function driver
 Vega Prime 2.1.2 Windows
vpBonusPack 2.1.4 4/07
The vpBonusPack for Vega Prime 2.1 contains the following modules, each with API, GUI, and docs:
vpOscillator - repeating motion position strategies
vpAction - run-time events and actions thru LynX Prime
vpVolume - positionable visualization volumes
vpTrail - visualize an object's past position history
vpMovie - record an AVI of your simulation
vpRecordPlayback - record and playback object and eyepoint positions
vpSmooth - smooths the motion of objects and eyepoints
vpPosStrat - self-propelled vehicle motion
vpWheelDrive - makes wheels turn based on vehicle speed
vpSimControl - start/stop/pause/reset the simulation
vpFunctionDriver - drive an object or DOF thru a function with input from a slider, oscillator, or another function driver
 Vega Prime 2.1.2 Windows VC7
vpBonusPack 2.1.3 1/07
The vpBonusPack for Vega Prime 2.1 contains the following modules, each with API, GUI, and docs:
vpOscillator - repeating motion position strategies
vpAction - run-time events and actions thru LynX Prime
vpVolume - positionable visualization volumes
vpTrail - visualize an object's past position history
vpMovie - record an AVI of your simulation
vpRecordPlayback - record and playback object and eyepoint positions
vpSmooth - smooths the motion of objects and eyepoints
vpPosStrat - self-propelled vehicle motion
vpWheelDrive - makes wheels turn based on vehicle speed
vpSimControl - start/stop/pause/reset the simulation
vpFunctionDriver - drive an object or DOF thru a function with input from a slider, oscillator, or another function driver
 Vega Prime 2.1
vpBonusPack 2.0.8 7/06
The vpBonusPack for Vega Prime 2.0 contains the following modules, each with API, GUI, docs, and examples:
vpOscillator - repeating motion position strategies
vpAction - run-time events and actions thru LynX Prime
vpVolume - positionable visualization volumes
vpTrail - visualize an object's past position history
vpMovie - record an AVI of your simulation
vpRecordPlayback - record and playback object and eyepoint positions
vpSmooth - smooths the motion of objects and eyepoints
vpPosStrat - self-propelled vehicle motion
vpWheelDrive - makes wheels turn based on vehicle speed
vpSimControl - start/stop/pause/reset the simulation
 Vega Prime 2.0
 
VpOverlay 1.13 11/04 The vpOverlay module allows you to add image, text and line overlays to a Vega Prime channel, all done in LynX Prime. Vega Prime 1.2
vpOscillator
 
VpOscillator 1.2 02/04 The vpOscillator module allows you to give objects repeating motion based on several wave forms, all done in LynX Prime. Vega Prime 1.2
 
Vega Prime Module App Wizard 1.0 9/03 The Vega Prime Module App Wizard is a Microsoft Developer Studio plug-in that creates the framework for a Vega Prime module. Microsoft Developer Studio
Vega Prime 1.2
 

Frequently Asked Questions
1. What does the 'Requires' field mean in the above tables? The 'Requires' field in the tables above lets you know what software is needed to run the specific tool. Plugins for Creator will always require that Creator be installed. Different plugins require different versions of Creator, but most plugins will work with the version of Creator listed and all future versions. For example, when you see 'Creator 2.4+' that means that Creator version 2.4 or higher (e.g. 2.4.1, 2.5, etc.) is required to use this plugin. Applications, on the other hand, do not require Creator to be installed but they do require that the OpenFlight DLL's (on Windows systems) or SO's (on IRIX systems) are on the computer. The DLL or SO files will be on any computer that has Creator of the OpenFlight API installed.

2. What is Java VM? Java VM is the Java Virtual Machine and is required to run any Java applications, this is sometimes also refered to as the Java JRE, Java Runtime Environment. If you want to know if the Java VM is installed on a certain computer, or which version of the Java VM is installed, open a command prompt and type: java -version
If the Java VM is installed and functioning properly, the current version of Java will be printed to the screen. If you would like to download the latest version of the Java VM, you can do so for free - for Windows from Sun Microsystems (http://java.sun.com/j2se/) or for IRIX from SGI (http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/languages/java.html).

Use and Disclosure of Data
Plug-in tools are provided free of charge and without support. These tools are solely for use by an authorized licensee of the applicable MultiGen-Paradigm Product(s), and use of these tools is subject to the terms of any such license. These tools are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. To the full extent permitted under applicable law, MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc. disclaims all liability arising from or related to any use of these tools.

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