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Xenon writes "3D Nature is proud to introduce, years in the making, Visual Nature Studio 3. VNS 3 is a massive step forward in GIS/3D Landscape Visualization, featuring the long awaited Phong Shading, Ultra-Hires Effects, Ecosystem Blending, Smart lakes, faster rendering, vastly improved user interface and more data formats. VNS 3 has enhancements that will be valuable to virtually anyone doing 3D Landscape Visualization, and is already being used to create top-notch photorealistic images of roads, golf courses, wind farms, the upcoming 2010 Olympics and gorgeous maps."
See also previous 3D Nature stories below.
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Industry: 3D Nature announces KML exporter for Scene Express
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redgeographics writes "3D Nature announces a Google Earth exporter for Scene Express
Scene Express now includes a new exporter for creating landscapes in KML/KMZ format for use in Google Earth, or other KML-compliant applications like ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer. Export landcover textures including roads, orthophotos, foliage, 3D structures, water and other landscape elements from any WCS/VNS scene straight to Google Earth for viewing within an interactive 3D planet environment. Adding KML/KMZ support to the powerful landscape creation tools already found in Scene Express makes creating Google Earth scenes from existing projects as easy as clicking Export.
3D Nature Vice President of Research and Development Chris Hanson said, "Google Earth has brought 3D terrain visualization to everyman, broadening the exposure of our entire industry along the way. Making our tools support KML is only natural. While KML is not suitable for all projects, it dovetails nicely with our other capabilities ensuring access to the right tool for almost any job. For environments that require integration into a 3D globe, use Google Earth. For smaller and more detailed areas, use NatureView Express. The great thing is we have one toolset that can produce the same scene in both viewers from one GIS or CAD dataset."
Official press release"
Scene Express now includes a new exporter for creating landscapes in KML/KMZ format for use in Google Earth, or other KML-compliant applications like ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer. Export landcover textures including roads, orthophotos, foliage, 3D structures, water and other landscape elements from any WCS/VNS scene straight to Google Earth for viewing within an interactive 3D planet environment. Adding KML/KMZ support to the powerful landscape creation tools already found in Scene Express makes creating Google Earth scenes from existing projects as easy as clicking Export.
3D Nature Vice President of Research and Development Chris Hanson said, "Google Earth has brought 3D terrain visualization to everyman, broadening the exposure of our entire industry along the way. Making our tools support KML is only natural. While KML is not suitable for all projects, it dovetails nicely with our other capabilities ensuring access to the right tool for almost any job. For environments that require integration into a 3D globe, use Google Earth. For smaller and more detailed areas, use NatureView Express. The great thing is we have one toolset that can produce the same scene in both viewers from one GIS or CAD dataset."
Official press release"
3D Nature's Scene Express gets WorldWind Support 1 comment
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XenonofArcticus writes "3D Nature announced and demonstrated Scene Express support for exporting to NASA's WorldWind 3D Virtual Globe tool at the First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference in Boulder, Colorado. Chris Hanson delivered a presentation showing how the same GIS-based landscape built in Visual Nature Studio could be authored to multiple realtime 3D Landscape tools, and compared and contrasted the abilities of each. Landscape tools demonstrated included VRML, 3D Nature's NatureView, Google Earth and now NASA WorldWind. WorldWind is a rapidly-evolving Open Source 3D Virtual Globe tool. WorldWind support is now part of Scene Express 2, an add-on for Visual Nature Studio for authoring realtime landscapes, and is available as a free update to current Scene Express 2 owners."
Scene Express KML Google 4 Support 2 comments
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Xenon writes "3D Nature has updated the Google Earth KML support in Scene Express to support new Google Earth 4 features, offering textured terrain and 3d object trees. New samples showing LIDAR terrain and trees are online and can be viewed with the latest Google Earth 4 beta. Best of all, the update is free for all Scene Express 2 owners and includes some basic support for NASA's WorldWind as well!"
3D Nature Visualizes California Wildfires in 3D
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Xenon writes "Recently, 3D Nature created a three-minute 3D visualization of the destructive power of the California wildfires. Working on a tight budget and deadline under contract with the Institute for Business & Home Safety, 3D Nature recreated the affected areas in Visual Nature Studio, modeling terrain, roads, vegetation and houses. An informative voice-over explained the factors underlying the survival or destruction of various homes as the viewer witnessed firsthand the effects of the fire. "Wildfires are called wild for a reason, they can be uncontrollable," said IBHS President & CEO Julie Rochman. "Through the video we were able to help people understand that they can take back control by protecting their homes from these fires. We were able to illustrate that it doesn't have to cost a lot to make some very effective changes.""
3D Nature GIS Day Green Sale
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Sorry for not publishing this on GIS Day (all day long meeting 200km away) but hopefully their offer is up to November 25th.
Xenon writes "November 19, 2008 is GIS Day and this year more than ever the world of
GIS is focused on environmental issues. You might expect a company named
3D Nature has always been on the forefront of environmental responsibility. Visual Nature Studio 3 has quickly become the tool of choice for
visualizing wind farms (1, 2, 3) as well as
environmentally responsible forestry,
pipeline and powerline development and mine reclamation (1, 2). New parks are being designed world-wide using Visual Nature Studio 3. Whether open space or
landscaped with facilities these environments come to life with VNS imagery and animations. 3D Nature is also very happy to announce that our new VNS 3 packaging
was designed with the environment in mind. With new recyclable packaging
and significantly less printed material included (all documentation is
now in electronic format) Visual Nature Studio 3 has a significantly
reduced environmental impact. So, all in all, 3D Nature's products are
greener than ever! As a way to share the green, 3D Nature is offering a week-long VNS sale (through November 25th, 2008). Visit our GIS Day page to see the details."
Related previous stories below.
3D Nature Introduces Visual Nature Studio 3
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