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- World Construction Set
- Is your Virtual Reality more Virtual than Reality?
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- Questar Productions is proud to announce our flagship product,
- World Construction Set (WCS), the next generation of computer
- terrain modeling software. WCS' powerful renderer sets new standards
- in photo-realism, producing images that are often mistaken for
- actual photographs. Our ecosystem modeling approach combines
- familiar 3D imaging techniques with Nature's own processes to
- deliver scenes of sublime beauty and lifelike detail to your Amiga.
- The days of orchard-like forests and pipe-cleaner trees are gone
- forever!
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- WCS shatters the perception that terrain renderers must be
- limited to small geographic areas and sparse detail. At the heart of
- our system is a sophisticated GIS (Geographic Information System)
- database, using real-world coordinates and allowing for an unlimited
- number of objects. The flexibility of this design enables accurate
- depiction of landscapes and vector information at any scale.
- On-demand object loading in the render process permits great numbers
- of high-resolution data sets to be utilized without utilizing great
- amounts of memory. For example, rendering the entire state of
- Colorado in 90-meter square samples results in a mind-boggling 80
- million polygons, and can be done using only 8Mb of RAM! Since WCS
- perceives every landscape as a portion of the entire globe, horizon
- curvature is automatically accounted for. High-resolution DEM sets
- covering the entire United States and lower-resolution global data
- sets are available from the USGS and Questar Productions. One could
- even animate a continuous pull-back from viewing a single meadow to
- soaring over the entire planet.
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- WCS can also present information about a variety of natural and
- man-made features using vector objects. (Vector objects are entities
- composed of straight line segments or points, and are used to depict
- streams, roads, political boundaries, coastlines, buildings, etc.)
- These objects can be imported from many sources or digitized and
- edited in our 2D or 3D perspective view windows. Unlimited layer
- support eases grouping of vectors by type, location or any
- user-defined attribute. Line weights and colors are
- user-configurable, along with luminosity and other special effects
- (crawling ants). WCS' 2D map module is powerful enough to stand
- alone as a separate application. In combination with WCS' other
- modules, the power cannot be contained!
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- We do not have the space to describe in detail the extensive
- features available for video and print media output and scientific
- analysis. A brief list of other capabilities follows, Please feel
- free to contact us at Questar if you have any further questions,
- since our product is driven by user feedback and ideas.
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- General Program Features:
- Task-oriented non-modal user-interface
- Load/Save configurable workspace and user preferences
- Flexible object, image and data file paths
- Uses Magic User Interface -- Amiga User Interface StyleGuide
- compliant
- Provides public screen on user-specified ScreenMode
- Enhanced display board (with Intuition emulation) compatibility
- 68000, 68020/68030 and 68040 optimized versions
- Compatible with all Amiga models running OS2.04 or later
- Multimedia, multidimensional and buzzword-compliant!
- Heaps O' Fun to Use!
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- Import / Export Features:
- IO LightWave motion files
- I U.S. Geological Survey Digital Line Graphs (USGS DLG)
- I World Data Bank global vector data
- I AutoCAD DXF vectors (LINE, POLYLINE, POINT primitives)
- I USGS 3 arc second ASCII Digital Elevation Models (DEM)
- IO WCS Binary DEM
- IO Future support for Vista binary DEMs
- IO IFF and Sculpt image formats
- IO IFF-ZBUF and raw array Z-Buffer data
- IO Convert between any 2D binary data array and an image/DEM
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- Mapping Features:
- Extensively configurable algorithmic ecosystem mapping
- Animatable planar color and ecosystem mapping
- Multigradient hypsometric shaded relief mapping
- Multiple ecosystem types: Water, Bare, Rock, Grass, Conifer,
- Deciduous
- Visual sensitivity (ViewShed) analysis and display
- 2D/3D vector digitization, editing and mapping/rendering
- Summagraphics tablet support (future generic tablet support)
- 2D plan view (overhead) map display by contour or shaded relief
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- Animation Features:
- Automatic turn banking and lookahead options
- Spline control of all motion, color and ecosystem parameters
- Individual Tension, Continuity and Bias for each spline channel
- Interactive 3D wireframe layout display
- Multiple 3D preview rendering methods
- Batch render preview animation frames to files for external
- playback
- Real-time internal preview of motion (bounding-box) and color
- Timeline (motion graph) editing of all splined parameters
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- Rendering Features:
- 24 bit output with 4 bit (16-color) progress display
- Field Rendering for 60fps video output
- Any aspect and resolution up to 32767 x 32767 (memory permitting)
- Segmented rendering option reduces memory requirements
- Automatic super-sampled pixel antialiasing
- User-definable fractal recursion level
- Detailed 2D trees for realistic vegetation density within
- realistic rendering time-frames
- Curvilinear horizon gradient or animated bitmap image backgrounds
- Supports Z-Buffered background compositing (IFF-ZBUF, Raw array)
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- World Construction Set version 1.0 is available immediately, and
- ships with the program, extensive sample data sets, and a
- preliminary manual. All registered v1.0 purchasers will receive a
- free update to v1.1 including any bug fixes, additional features and
- final printed manual. World Construction Set v1.0 has a suggested
- retail price of $250 and is available direct from Questar
- Productions. Be the first on your block to own the newest and
- coolest terrain renderer for the Amiga -- through October 30th, 1994
- WCS is available direct for only $195 (includes ground freight).
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- Questar Productions
- 1058 WCR 231/2
- Brighton, CO 80601
- (303) 659-4028
- wcsinfo@arcticus.burner.com
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