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  Vertice Nova - Real Time in No Time
 

Simple, easy to use, powerful, based on the latest hardware and software technologies, fully integrated in the most commonly used 3D software of the market, Nova 2008 real-time 3D engine allows to display high quality virtual scenes.

This engine is running under Microsoft Windows environments and is based on DirectX 8.1 and 9.0c technology. As in a video game, it allows you to get into its virtual environment in order to discover it or to interact with its content.

Application fields are numerous: Architecture, civilian or military simulation, installation, car industry, train industry, aviation, manufacturing industry, virtual presentations, products marketing, etc.
 

  Vertice Nova
  Production and visualization environment for virtual 3D scenes. Nova is fully integrated in 3ds max 6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x./2008
   
  Version Comparison
 

Function

 Nova Essentials Nova Standard Nova Advanced
Materials      
video textures ■ ■ ■
Render to texture ■ ■ ■
Transparency ■ ■ ■
Specular ■ ■ ■
Opacity ■ ■ ■
Vertex Painting  ■ ■ ■
Blend Material  ■ ■ ■
Vertex/Pixel Shaders  ■ ■ ■
Support of  DirectX 9, fxo and HLSL shaders ■ ■ ■
Special Effects      
Reflection ■ ■ ■
Refraction ■ ■ ■
PostProcess effects ■ ■ ■
Billboards ■ ■ ■
Post-production Layouts ■ ■ ■
Linear, exponential or square fog  ■ ■ ■
Lens Flares   ■ ■ ■
Particles   ■ ■ ■
Glow par objet  ■ ■ ■
Lighting      
Dynamic lighting ■ ■ ■
Volumetric lights ■ ■ ■
Real Time shadows   ■ ■ ■
Animations                
Management of multiple cameras  ■ ■ ■
Cameras animation  ■ ■ ■
Objects animation ■ ■ ■
Lights animation ■ ■ ■
Textures animation  ■ ■ ■
Morphing  ■ ■ ■
Direct and inverse kinematics   ■ ■ ■
Vertex Skinning  ■ ■ ■
Scripting               
Action Builder: graphic tool to create interactions ■ ■ ■
Launch of animations ■ ■ ■
Launch of particles ■ ■ ■
Launch of sounds ■ ■ ■
Launch of external programs or web pages ■ ■ ■
Complete script mechanism in Visual Basic    ■ ■
Tools      
Entities browser ■ ■ ■
Material Viewer  ■ ■ ■
Additional objects library ■ ■ ■
Saving/States Loading management  ■ ■ ■
Management of the distances calculation ■ ■ ■
Screenshots with multiplication coefficient ■ ■ ■
Video capture ■ ■ ■
Trajectory Manager ■ ■ ■
Companion scene: creation of interfaces ■ ■ ■
Nova widgets: accelerated graphics controllers ■ ■ ■
Shader Forge: tool to write and generate shaders   ■ ■
Physics      
Management of collisions   ■ ■ ■
Managements of joints     ■
Management of Rigid Bodies     ■
Management of Rag Dolls        ■
Management of weight     ■
Management of frictions coefficient      ■
Other      
Full integration in Viz   ■ ■ ■
Full integration with 3ds Max 7/8/9/2008/2009 ■ ■ ■
Direct import of Collada files  ■ ■ ■
Full, wires and points rendering  ■ ■ ■
Full management of the DirectInput peripherals  ■ ■ ■
Support of many joysticks simultaneously ■ ■ ■
Support of the Xbox 360 peripherals ■ ■ ■
Collaborative work with network share  ■ ■ ■
Management of the plugins ■ ■ ■
Generation of scenes in an independant .exe file ■ ■ ■
Web Plugin with  same quality/interactivity as in the .exe ■ ■ ■
   
Vertice Nova.
 An easy to use and powerful real time 3d engine.
 
Vertice Nova Essentials.
 Nova Essentials contains all the essential tools for 3d real time production within 3ds Max and Max Design.
 
Vertice Nova Standard.
 Nova Standard includes the full functionality of Nova Essentials plus a Visual Basic .Net scripting tool for customisation development and Shader Forge, a tool to create and modify shaders.
 
Vertice Nova Advanced.
Nova Advanced includes the full functionality of Nova Standard plus a full physical engine to assign gravity and effects to objects for user interaction.
 
 

 
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