TGS OPEN INVENTOR 5.0 FOR VC NET2K3

TGS OPEN INVENTOR 5.0 FOR VC NET2K3

Mercury continues to expand the product capabilities in Open Inventor
product line. The company has just released the release 5.0 of Open
Inventor. by adding important functionality to meet the needs of our
clients. Many of the following new release 5.0 features are
customer-inspired enhancements. Such additions have included:

Open Inventor. from Mercury new features:
- Support for programmable shaders (ARB, Cg, and GLSL)
- OpenGL. 1.5 texture extensions (plus multi-texture, etc.)
- Direct import of OpenFlight files (for vis-sim applications)
- Improved transparency (by sorting triangles)
- Support for X3D nodes, including 2D geometry nodes
- FastEdit mode (for small changes in a big scene)
- Interactive scene graph editing tool ("ivTune")

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