WITNESS VR incorporates stunning 3D displays to any WITNESS simulation model and is designed to be used where first class presentation of a key proposal is required. utilizing the latest graphics technology that stems from the video gaming industry WITNESS VR offers easy navigation of a 3D world using a standard mouse with full free flight capability. View your models from any angle, set up flypasts, add additional animation effects or create a full background world to set your model in a realistic setting. WITNESS VR can also be used separately to any simulation model. Using the full world editing software called mantra4D which is shipped with WITNESS VR powerful animations can be created for pure animation effect.
World Creation
WITNESS VR comes complete with a world building and editing package called mantra4D. This enables objects to be created from simple primitives (spheres, cylinders, boxes, etc) or to be imported from a variety of CAD and solid modeling packages (3DS, WRL, DXF formats included). Complex CAD models can be simplified using tools in mantra4D to render them suitable for real time fly-around VR. Stunning backdrops can be created easily using simple surfaces and applied digital images which can be taken with any typical digital camera.
Fastbuild - the key to adding a 3D display to a model - fast!!
Take any simulation model in WITNESS and the integrated VR menus give access to the WITNESS "fast build" facility. This allows you to create a 3D view using the shape libraries and worlds of your choice developed in mantra4D (defaults are supplied!). Intelligent syntax mapping links the names of the 3D shapes to the names in the simulation model and any layout set in the 2D model window is used automatically to set up 2 of the 3 dimensions in 3D. Optional offsetting and scaling of the layout in all 3 dimensions is available and extrusion of lines on the 2D display to create instant 3D walls, pillars, etc. The fastbuild process completes in seconds resulting in an integrated 3D display in a new window.
Extended VR Services
Lanner provides a cost-effective service for creating objects and worlds to help you take full advantage of WITNESS VR quickly. Your customized world and objects can be created from layout diagrams and CAD designs or even from photographs.
WITNESS VRDX
The WITNESS VRDX module is an add-on option to WITNESS VR. It allows the creation of a simulation trace file from WITNESS that can be viewed in a special VR viewer. With the model cut loose from the simulation timeframe the world plays in the viewer just like a 3D video file - enabling forward and backward running, multiple fast forward and reverse modes and easy jumping from time to time in the model. Smoother flypasts can be scheduled and it is possible to distribute the world and the player to colleagues and customers for them to see the power of 3D on their own machines with controlled or free exploration options..
Mantra4D is developed by Lanner under licence from Criterion Software
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| A 3D WITNESS VR window from an airport check-in model |
An integrated engine production line model showing 2D and fastbuilt 3D view |
A 3D window from a Gas forecourt model |
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Police Cells and Charging Area VR view in mantra4D |
Call Center model with integrated 3D view |
WITNESS VR Animation showing how fastbuild is used to create great looking 3D views. |
