Overview

VRED is a Virtual Reality System for visualization of complex 3d Scenes. For interaction a Action/Event aproach is used. It is based on the great open source Renderer OpenSG.

VRED Lite Features

Interactive programming with python.
Action/Event concept for 3d Scene interaction.
Fields and Routes like in vrml for animations.
VRML 2.0 loader.
Inventor import (ascii and binary).
FHS (Fraunhofer VR-data-exchange format) loader and writer.
STL (Stereo Lithography file format) loader.
Open Dynamics Engine Ode.
Particle System.
User definable 3d menus.
3d Windows.
Multiple render windows.
Active and passive stereo.
Multi texturing.
Cube reflection mapping.
Phong shading.
CG Shader support.
GLSL Shader support.
CGFX Shader support.
Realtime shadow.
3D Sound.
Advanced scene optimizer.
Movie export as images or avi (divx, ...)
Image export with supersampling.
Playback of multiple mpeg1/2 movies (mapped on polygons)
Highquality fullscene antialiasing in software.
Web interface.
Spacemouse and SpaceBall support.
Very modular design.
Platform independent C++ code.
Very easy expandable in C++ and Python.

VRED Pro Features

Cluster support for multipipe projections (windows and linux).
Povray export for highquality raytracing.
Variants.
CSB (OpenGL Optimizer binary data format) loader.
Ambient occlusion calculation
True HDR (High-Dynamic Range) Rendering
IBL (Image-Based Lighting)
Post processing effects like glare, glow, depth of field.
Volume rendering.