3D GRAPHIC TOOLS 5.5 -- MICRO SYSTEM OPTIONS
Description:
The 3D Graphic Tools 5.5 software is
not available on the net commercial software trade or Micro System Options company.
My reason for this situation that the technology is growing so fast then the software become old version then we don't need that.
The develop of DirectX is same as 3D Graphic Tools version 5.5, but this more strong function available, good graphic display,
and more useful than the 3D graphic tools. Otherwise, 3D Graphic Tools is develop for Visual Basic language, and C++
language, but now the Visual Studio.NET including all available languages such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, C#, Java , etc is
coming out including the 3D graphic tools, it is strong languages. So, we don't need to get the 3D Graphic Tools to support for
those two languages. The main web page of Micro System Options is not available, but the following some linking URL and
information about this software can find following below. This is helpful for people who are using the old version of two languages
Visual Basic and visual C++.
I. Platforms, Price, and Company
Platforms : Support Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 ( but Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 2003 Server may be use)
Prices
: Single Unit: Visual Basic edition:
$149.00
C/C++ edition: $295.00
Texture Pak:
$29.00
DLL Manual:
$10.00
Company : Micro System Options
Email
: 71530.2232@compuserve.com
(For Price Discussion)
moptions@concentric.net (For software
information)
II. Application
3D graphic tools 5.5 is a graphics software developer's tool for the Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++ environments from Micro System Options. It provides extensive three dimensional graphics capabilities to Visual Basic and Visual C++ developers via DLL API interfaces, VBX and OCX (aka ActiveX) controls and monochrome through true color.
III. Examples/Samples
The following URL are great example to use and practice a software 3D Graphic Tools 5.5
http://www.dbmsmag.com/9708d13.html
( Not Available much for this time,
please email contact to get more)
IV. Functions/Future
3D Graphic Tools have many dimensional graphics functions providing:
Procedural textures and picture mapping
Z-buffer and painters sorting
Sophisticated lighting using multiple, movable color light sources with optional ambient light, depth cueing and special effects
Flexible, color, translucency and other object level attributes for control of objects' appearance
3d point, line, wire-frame drawing and clipping
Edge anti-aliasing and image post processing
Extruded, rotated, swept, lofted, spline and arbitrary curves and surfaces
Object generators (cube, cylinder, sphere, etc.)
Futures:
Full viewpoint, object orientation and placement control
Camera/lens metaphor
Parallel and perspective projection
Sophisticated lighting
Flat and Phong shading
Hidden surface removal
Translucent objects
Picture and texture mapping
Shadows
Anti-aliasing
Object generators
Extruded, rotated, spline, parametric and arbitrary surfaces
Grids
Labels
Markers
Wire-frames
Fixed and floating point math
Vector and matrix operations
Contour plotting
Dialogs
Demonstration programs
Visual Basic control interface
File Formats : DFX, STL and 3GT
V. Web Resources
Tools Descriptions: http://www.3dlinks.com/oldsite/3dprogramming_visualbasic.cfm
Web resources: http://www.softlandmark.com/3DModeling1.htm
Tool FAQ : http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/faq/3d.faq
Need more information please contact at moptions@concentric.net