Veritas777 opened this issue on Oct 24, 2005 ยท 26 posts
Veritas777 posted Thu, 27 October 2005 at 5:12 PM
Well- I think if E-ON were to impliment Geo-Referencing it would lay the important groundwork for many very exciting Vue 3D models. This would help make E-ON the "DAZ3D" of Landscape Models- roads, rivers, parks, villages, historic landmarks, etc- could all be added into your own favorite land area of interest- modern or historic- and the models would go exactly to their correct locations in the scene- a real "NO BRAINER" for hobby users... The sales of lower-end Vue Easel software would increase because the 3D landscape models would be made in the higher-end INFINITE software. Cornucopia would be able to support the sales of lots of 3D Landscape "plug-in's" made by Vue Infinite modelers. All of the models and effects would "SNAP INTO PLACE" at their exact Geo-Ref coordinates. But I really want to emphasize that this is not some FAR OFF technology that E-ON needs to invest lots of R&D on--- its WIDELY AVAILABLE NOW on many websites, in many software programs, and a lot of the needed data are all FREE and in OPEN (non-proprietary) formats (like Geo-Tiff). Planetside- makers of Terragen 2- have already indicated they are going to support GIS and even ESRI SHP "shape" data files...