binstream Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Key Changes Optimized ObjectTerrainGlobal. ObjectCloudLayer improvements. Landscape tool optimizations (increased performance, GPU and UNG compression added). Improved API for geo-referenced vector data manipulations. Overall engine improvements and bugfixes. Added interactive features into Oil Refinery demo. New C# integration samples. This is primarily a stabilization release, all users are strongly recommended to update. Oil Refinery Demo Oil Refinery demo got a lot of interactive features to showcase BIM (Building Information Model) capabilities of the engine. An interactive personnel training usecase: a sequence of operations required to start a diesel generator. Displaying variuos types of metadata (statistics, telemetry data, etc.) bound to certain buildings and facilities enables to control various parameters in real time. Visualization of contruction stages can be useful for overall construction process planning. A day-night cycle provides an opportunity to check all lighting systems of the enterprise. Video sequences can be used to make high-quality presentations of the project. General features of the demo: 360 000 square meters territory. Over 45M polygons. Over 19000 geometry surfaces. Over 1300 light sources. Over 100 unique models. A set of modes making it possible to explore every corner of the oil refinery in various aspects. Dynamic sky with volumetric clouds and tweakable day-night cycle. Adjustable weather and wind speed. Scalable quality settings. VR support (Oculus Rift and HTC Vive). ObjectTerrainGlobal Optimized tiles loading. Fixed smoothing when loading tiles. Fixed shadows rendering. Fixed artefacts occurring when filtration was enabled. Fixed bug with ObjectTerrainGlobal intersection check if no patches were created. Fixed crash in ObjectTerrainGlobal on video_restart. Fixed rendering when “No imagery data” was enabled. Landscape Tool Improved performance due to generation of normals along with elevation. Added validation of the GPU compression. Added saving the GDAL info into assets, which provides faster assets opening and prevents opening of the file descriptors for every source. Increased RAM limit option to 20-70%. Added the GPU compression to assets. Added the UNG compression. Fixed memory leaks during generation. Fixed clean up of the data when generating a new landscape. Fixed values of estimated generation time. Geodetics Added a DatasetRasterPosResolver class that performs conversion between raster (X, Y) and geodetic (latitude, longitude) coordinates. Added GeodeticPivot::mapMeshFlatToEllipsoid and GeodeticPivot::mapMeshEllipsoidToFlat methods that: Map a flat mesh by using the local coordinates (X, Y) as position on the flat plane and Z as an altitude to the ellipsoid and vice versa. Work with Mesh class which can be lately passed to any related node or used directly. Return position on the ellipsoid or flat plane where the node is to be placed. Old updateTopology / clearTopology methods from DecalMesh and ObjectMeshStatic nodes have been removed. Added GeodeticPivot::mapFlatToGeodetic and GeodeticPivot::mapGeodeticToFlat methods that: Map geodetic latitude, longitude and altitude coordinates to the flat plane coordinates according to pivot's origin latitude, longitude and altitude and vice versa. Use new ellipsoid math. Added correct curving of ObjectGrass and ObjectMeshClutter. Added orientation flag for ObjectGrass, ObjectMeshClutter and WorldClutter. Updated GeodeticPivot migration script. Removed the ellipsoid mode from legacy UnigineEditor and experimental UnigineEditor2. Old ObjectTerrain and ObjectSky now use the new math. Fixed mapped mesh bounds causing wrong intersection and visibility checks. Fixed engine crash due to the invalid GeodeticPivot pointer. Fixed reflections on the curved surfaces. Fixed lighting of deferred objects if ObjectCloudLayer and GeodeticPivot were added to the scene. Other Engine Improvements Added support for ZLC1/ZLC2 textures. Refactored mesh instancing for ObjectMeshStatic, ObjectMeshDynamic, ObjectMeshCluster and ObjectMeshClutter: Increased DirectX 11 instance count (256 instances per draw call). OpenGL instance count remained the same (41 instances per draw call). Removed NUM_INSTANCES shader define from UUSL, now engine will automatically set RENDER_MESH_NUM_INSTANCES shader definition. Fixed ObjectMeshClutter intersections. The slash at the end of the path specification in the Dir class is no longer required. Reduced memory consumption of FieldShoreline and FieldHeight texture buffers. Fixed ObjectWaterGlobal visibility distance (the correct value is 400+ km). Fixed planar reflections on ObjectWaterGlobal and ObjectWaterMesh. Fixed artefacts on lighting through the semi-transparent nodes on AMD. Fixed work of normal maps. Fixed playback of animations generated from the FBX file without geometry. Fixed double precision support for macOS causing shader compilation errors (requires GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 extension support). Fixed passing of shader definitions and reduced the number of shader allocations. Fixed projection of the mesh decals. ObjectCloudLayer bugfixes: Fixed sorting when curving several layers. Fixed incorrect lighting at specific angles. Fixed overexposure. Fixed writing to the velocity buffer. API Added the Visualizer::clear method that clears the internal buffer filled after calling any of Visualizer::render* methods. Added the “unique” flag to DecalMesh::setMesh and ObjectMeshStatic::setMesh. It allows overriding a shared mesh resource or creating a new unique resource. Added grab(), release() and isOwner() methods to the PackageUng class. The complete list of API changes is available in the API Migration Guide. C# Integration Samples Restored D3D11SharpAppForm and GLTKAppForm samples (integration of the engine to the Windows Forms). Added new D3D11SharpWPF and GLTKSharpWPF samples (integration of the engine to the WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation). UnigineEditor Added the “Combine by LODs” option to the FBX import. It provides settings for custom LODs combination. Updated OpenFlight Import plugin: Increased import speed due to skipping the recurrent DXT textures compression. Added support for semi-transparent materials. Added default specular texture. Added additional relative paths for textures search. Disabled “Instance material” option by default. Added play and stop of WorldTransformPath node animation to Unigine Tracker. Fixed creation of extra clones when several nodes are selected. Fixed incorrect hierarchy of the cloned nodes. Experimental UnigineEditor2 Fixed work with Starter and Professional builds. Fixed work in the Windows 7 builds. Fixed bugs with assets renaming. Documentation Added C++ tutorials on physics: Creating a Car with Suspension Joints Creating a Simple Mechanism Using Joints Creating Pylons and Wires Using Ropes Enabling Selective Surface-Based Collision Creating and Attaching a Cloth Link to comment
cinetec_tech Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 hi: Does the previously mentioned is tessellation included in this release? if not when will this feature be added back? it's important for us currently. thanks Link to comment
andre.elijah Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 How do we initiate the interactive sequences and videos when running the Oil Refinery demo? Whenever I play it, I can just freely fly around the scene. Thanks! Link to comment
binstream Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 How do we initiate the interactive sequences and videos when running the Oil Refinery demo? Whenever I play it, I can just freely fly around the scene. Thanks! Switch modes in the upper left corner. Link to comment
andre.elijah Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Nevermind, got it running. Had to enable Vive support and it worked. I ran it without Vive enabled before and the interactive demo and flythrough weren't available. All good now :) Link to comment
binstream Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 Oil Refinery should work in both VR and desktop modes, use "Camera" button in the upper left corner in desktop mode. Link to comment
liu.yao Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 We create project for Multi-channel mode,can we run it in both Vive and Multi-channel mode? Link to comment
silent Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 liu.yao, At the same time out of the box - I'm afraid it's not possible. If you want to switch between Vive and multi-channel rendering - it's surely possible if you restart the engine. If you can give us some more description about what real world task you are trying to solve - we can suggest you more :) How to submit a good bug report --- FTP server for test scenes and user uploads: ftp://files.unigine.com user: upload password: 6xYkd6vLYWjpW6SN Link to comment
eddy.tick Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 I like this demo, i myself am now testing this engine but most models i can work with are IFC based. How can you load these models? Link to comment
Simon.Anderson Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Can we please request C++/C# hooks for the Vive API in the next release? :) Link to comment
silent Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Hi Simon, It's already possible with C++ API. C# is not yet ready for that task, I'm afraid. How to submit a good bug report --- FTP server for test scenes and user uploads: ftp://files.unigine.com user: upload password: 6xYkd6vLYWjpW6SN Link to comment
andre_elijah Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Hey there, I just got a starter license. The main demo that I wanted to dig into was the interactive BIM demo. Has it been pulled? Also - I can't find the Port of Los Angeles demo either. Please advise :) Link to comment
silent Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 andre_elijah This demos is out of scope for the Starter edition. Sim / Pro is required for that. Could you please contact your sales manager (or just sales@unigine.com) to get a correct license?Thanks! How to submit a good bug report --- FTP server for test scenes and user uploads: ftp://files.unigine.com user: upload password: 6xYkd6vLYWjpW6SN Link to comment
andre_elijah Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 In that case - it's alright, I'll deal with it. I just wanted to take a look at how things were made, not necessarily upgrade the license. Thanks Link to comment
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