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Unity Plug-In |
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This section presents an overview of the Unity Plug-In application which accompanies Flexcom. Unity is a gaming engine which is quite popular amongst video game developers. Given its advanced graphical technology, you can create more advanced visualisations in Unity than is possible with Flexcom’s standard Model View component. The plug-in allows you to transfer results from a Flexcom database into the Unity environment, which means that the enhanced display is based on the motions derived from the finite element simulation. This feature may be used to create promotional videos which highlight innovative device concepts or service offerings. Such videos are also VR-ready, so computational models can be experienced a fully-immersive virtual reality environment.
Unity is a third party software which is licensed separately from Flexcom. In order to use it, you would need to possess an active Unity license, and also some graphical design skills in order to maximise its full potential. As many engineering firms may not have graphical designers in house, Wood are happy to create videos for individual customers as a service offering. Please contact out technical support team if you are interested in further details.
Further information on the Unity Plug-In are contained in the following sub-sections.
•Visualisation illustrates the powerful graphical capabilities of Unity, by comparing some promotional videos created using Unity with corresponding videos created using Flexcom’s video creation package, the AVI Studio.
•Interactive Demonstration allows to explore a Unity-generated model in more detail, and also offers you the opportunity to experience it in 3D virtual reality.
•Tutorial provides some useful information about model building within Unity.