Trian3D Builder v3.1 - TrianGraphics GmbH

Trian3D Builder TrianGraphics GmbH 

Intelligent Terrain Solutions 

Trian3D Builder v3.1 

Product Information 

Modules 

• Trian3D Builder: offers all basic functionality for generating geospecific terrains 

Database Generation System 

• Module Trian3D Geotypic - expansion for generic and geotypic terrains 

• Module Trian3D Roads - expansion for build profile streets and crossings 

• Module Trian3D Airport - automatically generate airport from extensive database with airport descriptions 

• Module Trian3D GDB Exporter - exporter for MÄK's CGF format 

• Module Trian3D OpenFlight/MetaFlight Exporter – exporter for Multigen Paradigm's OpenFlight / MetaFlight formats 

• Module Trian3D FBX Exporter – exporter for Autodesk's FBX format 

• Module Trian3D VBS2 Exporter – exporter for Bohemia Interactive's VBS2 format 

System requirements 

• standard PC with Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 

• works on 32/64 bit systems 

• minimal requirements: 

- 2 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon with 1GB RAM 

- 3D graphics card e.g. nVidia Geforce 6600 with 256 MB RAM 

• Recommended 

- Windows XP, Vista or 7 

- MultiCore 2. 4 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD Athlon with 4 GB RAM 

- 3D graphics card nVidia Geforce (e.g.GTX260 etc.) with 1024 MB RAM 

Terrain types 

Generation of various types of terrain 

• Geospecific terrain 

- based on satellite data and aerial images 

• Geotypic terrain (Geotypic Module) 

- based on landcover data 

• Generic terrain (Geotypic Module) 

- height and slope dependant texturing 

• combination of these terrain types 

Features of geotypic terrain generation 

• replacement of terrain classes with typical photorealistic textures 

• structure preserving blending between terrain classes 

• heterogeneous tiling in every terrain class 

• object placement matching underlying texture 

• climate zones 

General 

• supports terrains of arbitrary size in various export formats 

• native OpenSceneGraph support 

• about 40 target projections (Geographic, UTM, Geocentric, ..) 

- load additional projections from .prj file 

• create geographical maps for project documentation 

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Handling and Editing 

Ease of use 

• standardised, configurable user interface 

• fast access to libraries 

• immediate visualisation of all data 

• simultaneous views for 2D and 3D 

• support for multiple monitors 

• integration of external texture and geometry editors 

• auto save 

WYSIWYG-Editing 

• generate and edit points, lines and areas in 3D and 2D 

• immediate feedback showing models, line and area objects 

• work synchronously in 2D and 3D, change view whenever wanted 

• edit vector attributes with immediate visual feedback 

Comprehensive vector editing 

• Import, create and edit points, lines, areas, Bezier lines, Bezier area 

• vector groups with drag-and-drop 

• extensive transformation tools 

• visibility and activation states for all data 

• various tools for optimization of vector data 

- automatically place bridges on intersecting lines 

- merges points dependant on distance or angle 

- refine vector in certain distance 

- combine lines with same endpoints and attributes 

- populate area with random footprints (e.g. for building extrusion) 

- verify vectors - find and fix corrupted vectors 

- convert point list to line 

- insert points 

- split lines/areas 

- convert between lines/areas and Bezier lines/areas 

- convert between lines and areas 

- revert lines/areas 

- extend, connect lines 

- rectify vectors 

• assign generation attributes using libraries 

• automatic FACC assignment to vectors 

• ESRI-Shape export of vector data 

• assign imported vector attributes e.g. taken from shapefile attributes 

• hide/unhide selected vectors 

• assign local attributes to a vectors 

• snap to point 

• merge vector (.vec) data to existing project 

Height editing 

• create and edit elevation data in 2D and 3D 

• brush for 2D or 3D with adjustable size and misc. functionalities 

- height up/down, smooth, specific height 

Undo / Redo 

• undo and redo all user changes 

• adjust number of undo steps 





Data management 

• management of re-usable data in libraries 

- texture, geometry and vector attributes 

• definition of data sets e.g. for various seasons or regions 

• definition of groups with several elements 

• definition of landcover features 

- texture, alpha mask and object placement 

• generation attributes for vector data 

- stack of combined modifiers 

Definition of regions with various levels of detail 

• definition of high detail insets possible 

• per terrain tile various attributes can be assigned 

- LOD count with switch-distances, mesh resolution, texture resolution 

- Geotypic object placement 

• fast switching and assignment of local settings to tiles 


Modifiers for vector attributes 

• various ModifierStacks supported 

- a ModifierStack is a collection of misc. modifiers 

- assign various ModifierStacks to a vector to achieve very complex settings 

• Modifier "Extrude Outlines" for block forests and automatic building generation 

• Modifier "Connector" e.g. for power lines 

• Modifier "Insert" for cutting objects and regions into the ground mesh. 

- inserts with inner islands are supported, too. 

- insert objects can be rendered to texture in low-res LODs 

• Modifier "Lights" for defining light points 

• various Modifiers to places objects 

- placed inside areas, along lines and on points 

- variable geometry assignment, size and rotation 

- can use geotypic object placement 

- object placement for contours with side distance 

• Modifier “Collision” for flexible collision calculation between objects 

• Modifier "RenderToTexture" for painting vector data into the terrain's texture. Seamless transition by blending border region 

• Modifiers "Outline" and "Border" generate contours from vector data (for RenderToTexture and Insert modifiers) 

- define width, texture, tapering of rivers 

• Modifier "Eraser" deletes objects with lower priority 

• Modifier „Geometry“ to build plane objects 

• Modifier „Mapping“ to define tilling of the texture 

• Modifier „Layer“ for setting planar objects upon terrain 

• Modifier „Buildings“ 

- Various levels 

- Miscellaneous roof types (flat, hip, gable, shed, random) 

• Modifier „Profiles“ (Roads Module) 

• Modifier „Crossings“ (Roads Module) 

• Modifier „Nodename“ to set name to special nodes or switches 

• Modifier „VecAttributes“ to define vector attributes (Shape Export) 

• Modifier „SurfaceAttributes“ to define surface attributes (OpenFlight Export) 

• Modifier „VBS2 SurfaceAttributes“ to define special VBS2 surface attributes used for scattering 

• Modifier „Sign“ for taxiway and text signs 


Modules 

Geotypic 

Roads 

Airport 



• Various terrain types 

- generic, geotypic 

- see section Terrain types for further informations 

• Roads 

- generation of roads and rivers from profiles 

- various tracks 

- road markings 

• Crossings 

- fully automated generation of crossings 

- arbitrary number of roads and alignment 

- roundabouts 

- transition between various tracks 

• Automatic assignment of road templates to real-world data 


• Import 

- free database of over 20000 airports from all over the world 

- runways with with different types of markings and lighting 

- taxiways with lightning 

- apron 

• Editing 

- can edit and create runways 

- convert in editable vector data 

- generation attributes configurable using .xml file 

• Generation 

- Approach lighting - ALSF_I, ALSF_II, CALVERT, CALVERT_ILS, SSALR, SSALF, SALS, MALSR, MALSF, MALS, 

ODALS, RAIL 

- Edge lights - LIRL, MIRL, HIRL 

- Runway light indicator - PAPI, VASI 

- Runway marking code - Visual, non-precision and precision approach markings 

- Taxiway signs 

OpenFlight / MetaFlight Exporter 

• Export to Multigen Paradigm OpenFlight in various file versions (15.7 – 16.3) 

- can export RGB mode, double precision 

• Addition export to Multigen Paradigm MetaFlight 

- write mtl files for terrain and objects 

- save terrain in metaflight file structure 

- export object in additive or substitutive mode 

GDB Exporter 

• Export in MÄK's GDB format for VR-Forces and Stealth 

• Export of terrain and vector data 

• Export of face and vector attributes 

• Generation of gdb project (.mtd) and material (.mtl) files 




VBS2 Exporter 

• simple create VBS2 terrain with Trian3D Builder's usual simple workflow 

• support of geospecific and generic/geotypic texturing 

• full support of all modifiers for texturing, object placement and generation 

• manipulate elevation with modifier insert and height brush 

• export all supported 3d model formats to VBS2 .p3d format 

• import and place VBS2 .p3d models 

• definition of all VBS2 surface types with one or more clutter layers 

• generation of VBS2 roads 

• use all supported generation geo data (sat image, shape files,..) in VBS2 Tools 

Generation 

Object placement 

• various geometry integration 

- copy, instance, external reference 

• rotation, scale and object closeness with variance 

• collision testing 


Geometry integration 

• cut objects, lines or areas into the terrain mesh 

• height adaptation (specific height, dependant on relief, river behaviour (continuous decline), average height) 

• border for smooth transition to environment 

• cut isle contours 

Comprehensive database optimization 

• tiling and LOD switching of database 

• novel polygon saving edge algorithm 

• optimized scenegraph 

• geometry simplification using TIN-algorithm 

• export of indexed geometry or tri-strips if requested 

• texture sharing between objects 

• compressed texture support (dds) 

• definition of different texture and mesh resolutions for tiles 

• size dependant LOD switching of objects 

• paging supported 

• enhanced paging support for individual LODs and object groups 

Verification of databases in internal 3D viewer 

• high performance visualisation 

• tree view of scenegraph 

• adjustment of render parameters: camera clipping, fog, lighting 

• various cameras for individual navigation 

• statistics of frames, triangles,... 

Other Features 

• construction of airports and runways from vector data 

- can be done by hand if Airport Module is not purchased 

• cutting in external databases as high-resolution insets 

• optimized performance through multi-core/multi-CPU support 

• filters for terrain textures (snow, shadow from relief) 




Scope of supply 

• detailed manual 

• comprehensive libraries with textures, objects and vector attributes 

• detailed introduction with getting started document and advanced tutorials 

• various example projects 

Supported formats 

Import 

• GDAL raster data import 

- TIFF / BigTIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif) 

- Portable Network Graphics (.png) 

- SRTM HGT Format 

- NTIF 

- HFA Erdas Imagine (.img) 

- CEOS (Spot for instance) 

- JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) 

- GSat File Format (GFF) 

- ELAS DIPEx 

- Arc/Info ASCII Grid 

• USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF) 

• Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2) 

- Japanese DEM (.mem) 

- Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) 

- Envisat Image Product (.n1) 

- BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap) 

- X11 Pixmap (.xpm) 

- Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap 

(.bmp) 

- Spot DIMAP (metadata.dim) 

- AIRSAR Polarimetric 

- RadarSat2 XML (product.xml) 

- PCI Geomatics Database File 

- ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl) 

• OGR vector data import 

- Trian3D vector (.vec) 

- UK .NTF 

- Microstation DGN 

- VRT - Virtual Datasource 

- EPIInfo .REC 

- Atlas BNA 

- Comma Separated Value (.csv) 

- GPX - GPS Exchange Format 

- GeoJSON 

- GMT 

- ESRI Personal GeoDatabase PGeo 

• image data: 

- bmp 

- jpg 

- png 

- rgb 


- SGI Image Format 

- Daylon Leveller Heightfield 

- Terragen Heightfield (.ter) 

- NASA Planetary Data System 

- ERMapper (.ers) 

- ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (.ecw) 

- JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) 

- NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR) 

- FIT 

- WMO GRIB1/GRIB2 (.grb) 

- Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw) 

- OGC Web Coverage Server 

- Idrisi Raster 

- Intergraph Raster 

- Golden Software Grids 

- TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product 

- TerraSAR-X Product 

- DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster 

- miscellaneous RAW formats 

- Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) 

- GXF - Grid eXchange File 

- ADRG/ARC Digitilized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf) 

- Magellan BLX Topo (.blx, .xlb) 

- X-Plane/Flighgear aeronautical data 

- Arc/Info Binary Coverage 

- Geoconcept Export 

- ESRI Shapefile 

- SDTS 

- MapInfo File 

- U.S. Census Tiger Line 

- S-57 (ENC) 

- Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage 

- Keyhole Markup Language (*.kml) 

- VMAP 

- dds 

- gif 




- tga - img - tiff 

• 3D data: 

- 3D Studio (.3ds) 

- OpenFlight(.flt) 

- DirectX(.x) 

- Lightwave (.lwo) 

Export 

• database 

- OpenSceneGraph(.osg, .ive) – native OSG export 

- OBJ, STL, COLLADA (.dae) 

- OpenFlight (.flt) and Metaflight with FLT/MFT Exporter Module 

- GDB with GDB Exporter Module 

- FBX with FBX Exporter Module 

- VBS2 with VBS2 Exporter Module 

• vector data 

- shape files (.shp) - export vectors with attributes 

- Keyhole Markup Language (*.kml) files (as used in Google Earth) 

- 

• textures 

- bmp 

- dds 

- rgb 

- jpg 

- tif 

- GeoTiff 

Contact 

TrianGraphics GmbH 

Schönhauser Alless 45 

10435 Berlin 

Germany 

phone: +49 (0)30 48495565 

fax: +49 (0)30 48495581 

e-mail: info@triangraphics.de 

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- Wavefront (.obj) 

- OpenSceneGraph (.osg, .ive) 

- Collada (.dae) 

- AC3D (.ac)

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