3D Exploration
1. Platform, Pricing and
Company
- Window
98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 with IE 4.0 or later
- A
minimum resolution of 800 x 600 pixels
- A
graphics card capable of displaying 16-bit color
- At
least 64 MB of RAM
- A
Pentium 200-MMX processor or better
- A
CD-ROM drive for installation
- 3D
graphics hardware accelerator is recommended
- A
graphics card capable of displaying 24-bit color (Recommended)
- A
Pentium III 266 processor or better (Recommended)
- Deep
Exploration costs US $249. An upgrade from 3D Exploration Discovery Edition is
$199, and the upgrade from 3D Exploration Enterprise Edition is $49.
- Price
$$-$$$
- Right
Hemisphere Inc. http://us.righthemisphere.com/
2.
Applications
- 3D Exploration™ is an easy-to-use tool with a Windows®
Explorer® like interface for web searching, viewing and 3D rendering. It
supports most popular 2D and 3D file formats. The Enterprise Edition allows
translation between many different formats with animation included, as well as
publishing to many different 3D web formats. 3D navigation tools let you
instantly explore 3D objects and scenes from any angle. You can even use 3D
Exploration to present a slide show of a folder's images or create high
quality renderings of 3D objects and scenes for use in any other graphic
applications. It is extremely fast and includes Open GL hardware acceleration
support. Full support for the nVidia GeForce 3 based graphics cards is
included for the fastest highest quality results. Ideal for beginner,
intermediate and professional 3D artists!
The 3D Exploration
Enterprise Edition will allow you to Browse, View, Render AND Translate! All
of the features enabled for the 3D Exploration Discovery Edition are included
in the Enterprise Edition but the translate feature is also enabled. Please
see below for more information.
- 3-D Viewer/Translator supporting all
popular 3D/2D file formats.
- Allows creation of 2D/3D slide shows for
presentations.
- Enterpise edition ideal for scientists
as it generates C++ code for transformations performed in viewer.
- Ideal tool for students to experiment
with OpenGL features and view effects.
- Discover new 3D model and texture sites with Web
Search!
- Turbo Squid(tm) search tool added with direct links to
Turbo Squid - find and purchase high quality 3D and 2D content to speed your
content development project!
- Optional .dds file support for Direct
X
- New HTML templates added.
- MAX import/export plugin available for Enterprise
Edition Only (3ds max® required)
- W3D (Macromedia Shockwave® 3D file) export plugin
added
- MTX (Viewpoint® media) import/export plugin added
- HTML publish plugin added (based on Viewpoint media)
3.
Examples/Samples
4. Features
- Discovery Edition
- Browse and view and thumbnail 2D image files
- Browse 3D objects and materials
- High speed Open GL 3D acceleration support
- Load and view most any 2D or 3D file format
- Dynamic viewpoint control
- Create 2D and 3D slide shows
- Multiple rendering modes, solid, points, wireframe,
transparent etc.
- Individual object rendering control
- Full screen mode operation
- High quality raytracing output with shadows and
reflection
- High quality Anti-aliased Z-Buffer 3D rendering
output
- Create and browse 3D thumbnails
- View files contained in Zip and Rar archives
directly without unpacking them
- History of browsed files
- Reads animation and scene attributes such as
lighting and camera definitions
- Drag and drop 2D and 3D objects to and from other
applications
- Launch applications directly from 3D
Exploration
- Merge multiple 3D files for viewing
- Enterprise
Edition
- Includes all of the features of the Discovery
Edition, plus. . .
- Publish 3D content for web-based presentations using
Viewpoint™ Media File format support or Macromedia Shockwave® 3D.
- Viewing support for Maya® .mb, .ma and 3d studio
max® .max native files (Available as optional plug-ins)
- Allows modifications and saving of 3D file
attributes such as textures and geometry transformations
- Allows translation between different 3D file formats
including animation support between many formats
- Allows batch conversion of files
- Right
Hemisphere Developed Plug-ins
- Maya Binary & Maya ASCII
- .mb - Import with animation - Requires Maya*
- .ma - Import with animation - Requires Maya*
- max - Import/Export.
- .dds - Import only - Requires Direct X 8.0
- Optional Plug-ins that require Enterprise Edition
- 3rd
Party Plug-ins. . .
- AIR Portal
- This plug-in provides a very affordable full quality
Renderman rendering solution directly from within 3D Exploration. Such
features as global illumination and hemispherical lighting are supported.
Drag and drop Renderman shaders directly onto 3D Exploration models for the
highest quality rendering possible. Ideal for animators, industrial
designers, architects and anyone involved in high quality 3D presentation or
entertainment graphics. Features include:
Renderman RIB export plug-in for 3D Exploration
Global illumination
Area and hemispherical lighting
Renderman shader
support including displacement mapping
For more information see http://www.sitexgraphics.com/
Wild Tangent
Coming Soon…. Features TBA.
More in development. Contact
support@righthemisphere.com for more information.
5. Web
Resources