Vitruvian Studio is a one-click process, going from an ArchiCAD® (Graphisoft©) scene to an interactive online (offline) walkthrough.
ArchiCAD, just like the majority of professional CADs allows one to export into VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language), currently the official ISO standard for 3D on the web.
The Virtual Reality Modeling Language is a file format for describing interactive 3D objects and worlds. Using a VRML browser the user can explore these worlds, moving around and interacting with the virtual environment. VRML is designed to be used on the Internet, intranets, and local client systems. VRML is also intended to be a universal interchange format for integrated 3D graphics and multimedia. VRML may be used in a variety of application areas such as architecture, engineering and scientific visualization, multimedia presentations, entertainment and educational titles, web pages, and shared virtual worlds.
Vitruvian Studio is a professional and easy to use tool that allows non-animation experts to run and manage the vrml generated by ArchiCAD to achieve real time 3D scenes and interactive walkthroughs within minutes. It is made up of an optimizer + editor + viewer.
KEY FEATURES
Optimization - Advanced 3D geometry optimization algorithms make VS a next generation system for reducing and optimizing complex ArchiCAD 3D models. Simple Open-Save operation with Vitruvian Studio improves an ArchiCAD vrml file and reduces its size by 90-95%. The saved 3D scene is navigable in real time with all the most well-known vrml-viewers.
Editing - Vitruvian Studio is also and overall an Editor which allows you to significantly improve the basic scenes, allowing you to modify the element properties, set the lighting, elaborate textures and backgrounds, add external vrml files (inline), set the navigating and interaction modes. See Scene Modification, with a real time feedback.
Viewing - Vrml means best comfortable way of real time viewing : mouse navigation, collision detection, terrain following and gravity, speed control, different navigation modes (walk, fly, slide, examine, jump, allign). VS runs on a PC, there is no need to invest in additional high-end work stations. Anyway VS allows the use of megascreens, three-dimensional screens, HMD and stereo 3D glasses.
Advanced Visual Properties - Vitruavian Studio allows you to get real time 3D scenes with an high level of realism by adding to your 3D objects chromed and shiny gloss effects.
Interactivity - Vitruavian Studio allows you to add sensors and hyperlinks for building interactive worlds linked to each other.
Web Publishing - The short size of the finished scenes is ideal for Internet or sending by e-mail. VS allows you to prepare the scene with all resources for web publishing.
These features make Vitruvian Studio a simple and potent instrument for transforming 3D (automatically generated by ArchiCAD) in excellent real time interactive virtual worlds for multimedia presentation or sharing over the Internet.