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[andek]

Linköping, 23rd January, 2006

Remograph today announced the release of Remo 3D version 1.0. Remo 3D
is an effective tool for creating and modifying 3D models intended for
realtime visualization. The primary file format is OpenFlight®. Remo 3D
is currently available for Microsoft® Windows® XP/2000 and Linux.

Remo 3D has been available as a pre-release demo version since October
2005 and has been well received among 3D modeling professionals all over
the world. Today's long-awaited v1.0 release can be downloaded and
purchased from our website.


About Remograph:
Remograph provides products and services for the 3D modeling, computer
graphics and visual simulation industries. Our ambition is to develop
advanced and cost-effective solutions for end-users and developers of
e.g. visual simulation systems, visual databases or virtual reality
applications. Remograph is situated in Linköping, Sweden.

All trademarks referenced are properties of their respective owners.

For more information, visit our website at:
http://www.remograph.com
or contact Remograph at:
info@remograph.com
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Andreas Ekstrand
Remograph
http://www.remograph.com/

[UrbanLegend]

Congratulations on the release

[UrbanLegend]

What are the future plans for the product ?

Any cool features to look forward to ?

How about support for later versions of OpenFlight ?

[3dch]

Just downloaded the demo version for Windows - thanks for giving the chance to try it out. Unfortunately I get many crashes when opening a .flt database. For example Remo3D wasn't able to open one of these (admittedly quite big) freely available .flt files:

http://www.grime.net/downloads/simulations.htm

Loading smaller models worked, but Remo3D doesn't know.rgb files - which certainly are used in many existing .flt databases.

Beside these functionality issues the look & feel of a tool makes me like it or not - and to be frank, it would take me some time to get warm with it. The file open dialog simply looks awful - reminds me at long passed of simple GUI times. And the mouse wheel for zooming in/out should definitely be supported!

I better stop criticizing which is much easier than creating a good product, I know.

Hopefully the Remo3D developers find time (and money) to improve their fair prized product (although I wouldn't purchase the licence for the current version).

Ernst

[andek]

Thanks for your feedback! Sorry for the delayed reply. I didn't get an e-mail notification and we have been quite busy since the v1.0 release.

.., we have many suggestions of new features for the future relases. We are constantly trying to prioritize our issues and new features according to the needs of our customers. Although we have no public road-map for the development of Remo 3D, some of the planned "features" are support for previous and later OpenFlight versions, support for searching nodes by attributes, more advanced texture mapping, new licensing types, etc. Please tell us if there are any specific features that would be nice to have in the next release.

Ernst, we have tried the FLT files you pointed out. For us they work fine. We are however aware of the performance issues with large FLT files and we are looking into those issues for the next release. Could you please describe in more detail what happens when loading these files?

Regarding RGB files, these are of course supported. Perhaps you have tried to load an FLT file with relative paths to the RGB files? We have discovered a bug related to relative texture paths. It is however fixed and will work fine in the next patch release of Remo 3D. In the meantime, you can use Change All Paths from the Edit menu in the texture palette and indicate the path where the RGB files are located. We would really appreciate it if you could find the time to test this for us, in order to verify that this is not a new problem.

Regards,
Andreas Ekstrand
Remograph
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Andreas Ekstrand
Remograph
http://www.remograph.com/

[3dch]

Hi Andreas

Thanks for your advice. As first I made my homework and installed the newest graphics card driver and ensured that it worked fine. Re-installed Remo 3D and loaded the sample databases again - no crashes anymore and setting the file path also solved the problem with .rgb files.

The databases in question are in an unsupported .flt format - which must be confirmed several times while Remo 3D loads one of them. An option (checkbox) in the confirmation dialog giving the chance to "show this message only once" would be nice. Due to the "old" .flt version some databases appear quite incomplete in the editing window (for example "pondi") while others are only missing a few polygons.

I further tried with some smaller models from the Delta3d project http://www.delta3d.org which also has some free .flt models and terrain databases in their download page:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=113203&package_id=143034

There's a nice tool for loading .flt, .osg and other vis-sim file formats in good quality (no modelling, just exploring) which can serve well for cross checking the appearance/rendering of models:

http://www.viewtec.net/index.php?page=terrainview

What remains is to wish you good luck and success with the further development of Remo 3D... and have a nice weekend.

Ernst

[andek]

Thank you for the feedback, Ernst! This is very valuable for us, and you're right - a check box in the OpenFlight version warning dialog would be a good solution.

Thanks for the delta3d model and viewtec tool tip-offs, we will download them and try them out.

/Andreas
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Andreas Ekstrand
Remograph
http://www.remograph.com/