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UC-win/Road Ver.10.1 Interactive 3D VR Simulation & Modeling New price Upgrade price Ultimate : USD17,000　　Driving Sim : USD12,000 Advanced : USD9,000　　Standard : USD5,800 Ultimate : USD8,500　　　Driving Sim : USD6,000 Advanced : USD4,500　　Standard : USD2,900　 Release January, 2015 UC-win Simulation

Introduction

UC-win/Road Version10.1 provides even more customer improvements to our software. One such development is the ability to compress project data and hence reducing file size significantly. These new features and functions along with others are outlined below...

Improved texture formatting

Figure 1 PNG file display result It is now possible in Ver 10.1 to import PNG files so they can be used for texturing your 3D model. You can also superimpose the PNG files within the image display of any scenario. Also when saving project data, the compression function of textures (compressed and uncompressed can be selected) has now been added. The comparison of the performance and the size in the case of the compressed and uncompressed textures is shown in table 1. The time for saving and reading will be a little longer, but the file size has been greatly reduced. File name Uncompressed Compressed Save Reading time Data size Save Reading time Data size Mt Parkway 19 sec 34 sec 368MB 22 sec 33 sec 146MB City Design 79 sec 65 sec 926MB 89 sec 71 sec 510MB Highway 25 sec 38 sec 740MB 35 sec 44 sec 378MB Table 1 Comparison of texture compression time and file size

Improved method of arranging street map images within the 3D environment

The previous method used to arrange street maps was to define the width (east and west) and height (north and south) of the division by designating the origin (bottom left) in the local coordinate system or in the rectangular plane. Ver10.1 has added the following functions... The method of defining the map by designating the coordinates at the left bottom and right top of the division Ability to use the latitude and longitude (designate by dddmmss.sss, decimal numbers) Figure 2 Latitude and longitude, street map arranged by designating two origins Together with the method of selecting the image after defining the division, arrangement in the arbitrary position is supported by defining the two coordinates on the image. By this, when inputting the satellite photograph from a map such as Google maps, it can be easily pasted just by searching the two arbitrary latitude and longitude points. (Please check the licensing guidelines, etc., when using satellite photographs from the Internet)

Group arrangement of roadside objects

The automatic grouping of roadside objects such as traffic signs, 3D models, trees, markings, etc has been improved. For example, by adding a 'randomness' to the height and also to the direction the row of trees can be automatically adjusted so they will appear as natural as possible thus constructing a more realistic VR space. This is a useful tool in saving time when creating your 3D environment. Figure 3 The roadside object setting screen and the result of the group arrangement

LandXML extension

In regard to the import and export of LandXML, Ver10.1 now supports the 'relaxing curves' of railway alignments (cubic parabolic curves and sine half wave length curves). With this data exchange with other software packages now becomes possible.

New protect support

A license managing library has been introduced; also the license manager screen has been renewed and updated for use with the setting of the Web authentication codes.

Future developments

Future developments and planned improvements include the improvement of the driving diagnosis plug-in, the bicycle simulation plug-in and the head sensor plug-in (real time cooperation of 3D stereo and the direction of the head). In addition, we are planning to release a suite version of UC-win/Road and for users of the UC-1 engineer suite we can provide it at a bundle price.

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