Rich,

 

I do have a question with regard to the Road Maker software.  My goal is to create a realistic looking model that can be used to create a driving simulation movie (AVI) in HD.  What are the limiting factors with regard to resolution that I should consider when starting this process so it is as realistic looking as possible when completed?

 

The HD movie will then be used as an input to our optical simulation software to predict optical distortion with various automakers glass cad designs before the actual glass design is manufactured.  Sort of a predictive tool to prevent bad designs from hitting the road, or to prevent good people from hitting objects on the road that they cannot see.  Currently we took an actual 640 x 480 video driving down the road which is used as the input.  But we want to increase the movie resolution to true HD so we can obtain more information from the predictive results.  I do not have an HD camera (true HD) available so I cannot use the same method to obtain the input video, also customer requests want us to customize the roads based on the vehicle use.

 

Vince