Real Time Installations

S.S. Linnet

The video below outlines one of Biofacts' offline C++ 3D REALTIME Graphics projects. This is an interactive display for the Virtual Landscape Centre (VLC) that explains the mechanics of a Scottish canal lock. It features the S.S. Linnet, a ship that carried passengers down the Crinan Canal from 1866 to 1929. The video shows a screengrab and does not constitute the actual product.

The entire project was programmed in C++ and Ogre3D was used as the graphics engine combined with OS audio libraries and a WiiMote Library. Models have been made in Softimage XSI and Maya. The S.S. Linnet was modelled by from the VLC.

Templewood

This image depicts an historical site at Temple Wood near Lochgilphead in Argyll, Strathclyde, Scotland which was modelled for a Real Time installation. From the pollen record it is unclear how much wood was present in the area when the site was in use. As a result, additional forest was introduced to give an impression of how the site might have looked several thousand years BC.

The site was modelled in Vega Prime with Blueberry, a very expensive software used in aeronautical simulators. As these commercial products have tedious procedures in place and support for the DRM is slow at times, the models were transferred into Ogre3D and, by way of a test, were transferred into several Game Engines.

The Youtube clip below depicts the same site in a a 2004 Game Engine from Battlefield Vietnam. It was also relatively easy to transfer this into the modern CryEngine (not depicted), but in the end it was deemed too expensive for a tourist exhibit.