Quest3D Specifications

Publishing

• Create executables or  installers from your project
• Automatic efficient compression
• Pay only for Quest3D development licenses, no royalties need to be paid per project

Programming capabilities

• Very flexible visual programming
• Fully customizable program flow, interaction and rendering
• No typing, no syntax errors, no compiling
• Use LUA component if you need text based scripting
• Use the SDK to create custom components for Quest3D
• Fully object oriented development (interfaces, classes, polymorphism)
• Profiler for measuring execution time and cycle percentage of your functions

Lighting

• Fixed function lighting, up to eight lights
• Use HLSL(.fx) for customized lighting
• Normal maps
• Per pixel shading
• Import Light maps
• Dynamic shadow maps and stencil shadows
• Use dynamic HDR lighting and tone mapping for realistic results (Power and VR Edition only)
• Calculate lighting in real-time with 32 bit precision

Interaction

• GUI components for building user interfaces (Power and VR Edition only)
• Use standard input devices such as mouse, keyboard and joystick
• Use Wii-remote input (VR Edition only)
• Flock of Birds support (VR Edition only)
• Polhemus Patriot, FASTRAK, Minuteman (VR Edition only)
• ARTtrack support (VR Edition only)
• 5DT and Immersion Cyberglove(VR Edition only)
• Force feedback for joystick
• 3rd party DMX support
• 3rd party MIDI support

Sound

• Playback MIDI, Mp3, Ogg and Wav
• 3D positioning
• Volume and pitch control
• File formats: WAV, MP3, OGG

Geometry and animation import

• Import COLLADA or .X Natively. Exporters available for 3D Studio MAX®, Maya®, Soft image®, Lightwave®, Sketchup®, Soft image|XSI® and many other programs.
• Polytrans™ integration* allows direct importing of BDF, 3DS, ACIS SAT, Alias Triangle, Autodesk Inventor, Biovision/Acclaim MoCap, DWG, DXF, VDU, DirectX, Electric image .fact, IGES, Illustrator 2D vector file, Imagine .iob, Inventor .iv, FBX, .LWO, LWS, Minolta 3D Scanner, Openfl ight .fl t, PTC G-Plug Granite, Parasolid, Pro/Desktop, Pro/E native .asm/ .prt, Pro/E .SLP, PDB Proteine databank/MDL MOL Molecule, Quickdraw 3D, Rhino/OpenNURBS, STEP, Soft Image XSI, Soft Image-3D, Solide Edge, SolidWorks, Stereo Lithography .STL, Strata StudioPro, TrueSpace .cob, USGS & GTopo30 .dem VDA-FS, VRML1, VRML2, Vistapro .dem, Wavefront .obj, XGL/ZGL (XML style transfer fi le format).

Data

• XML parser for loading and saving custom XML data (Power and VR Edition only)
• Database (Power and VR Edition Only)
• Connect to MySQL or ODBC database sources
• Network (Power and VR Editi on Only)
• Create Server/client software
• Interpolated network synchronisation
• Create network applications for LAN and Internet
• Timing synchronisation for cluster applications (VR Editi on Only)
• Windowed or Fullscreen
• Artificial intelligence
• Path finding and Finite state machine

Animation

• Envelopes, Rigid body physics, skinning, expressions, timers, interpolators, morphing, motion blending (VR and Power Edition include advanced blending engine)
• Import rigid body animation and skinned animation
• Special effects
• Lens flares
• Create 3D text geometry from text
• Blur, pixelate, posterize, color correction and many other post processing filters
• Particle systems (Power and VR Edition include advanced version)
• Cloth simulation
• Ocean water rendering (Power and VR Edition only)
• Sky rendering, based on location coordinates and time of day including stars, sun and moon (Power and VR Edition Only)
• Weather simulation with rain, clouds, fog and thunder (Power and VR Edition Only)
• Optimized rendering of instanced geometry such as plants and trees and many skinned characters

Material capabilities

• Shader model 1,2 and 3 support
• Up to 8 textures per material
• 32,24,16 and 8 bit accuracy rendering (up to 128 bit pixels RGBA)
• 32,24,16 and 8 bit accuracy texture support (up to 128 bit pixels RGBA)
• 32,24,16 and 8 bit accuracy render buff er support (up to 128 bit pixels RGBA)
• Alpha channel output
• Cube map rendering and cube map support
• Use HLSL or fi xed functi on for materials
• Use precompiled HLSL code to hide your code
• Post processing, multi pass, deferred shading
• Shadows, relief mapping, parallax mapping, fresnel factor, transparency and many other material effects
• File formats: JPG, BMP, TGA, DDS, PNG, AVI, MPEG, WMV, FX

Physics capabilities

• Use primitive shapes or geometry
• Material system with collision callbacks
• Add impulses and forces
• Use joints to connect bodies: Ball and socket, hinge, slider, restrict axis
• Use motors to position bodies
• Rope simulation
• Dynamic creation and removal of joints and bodies
• Select between physically accurate physics or performance optimized physics

Numbers

• Coordinates and values are stored as 32 bit floating point values (~7 digit accuracy)
• Max. ~4.000.000.000 vertices per surface (theoretical limit, depends on hardware)
• Max. 4096×4096 textures
• Unicode support for strings and text rendering, filenames must be non-unicode
• Max. 1200 Mb Runtime memory footprint
• Max. Shader model 3.0

Output

• Outputs all modes supported by hardware
• Passive Stereo (VR Edition Only)
• Philips WOWvx 3D Monitor (VR Edition Only)
• Anti -aliasing
• Support for multi monitor setups

Minimum system requirements

Some features depend on hardware capabilities.
Different Quest3D project have different requirements.
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, 7 or better (64 or 32 bit)

• 256 MB system memory
• 1Ghz Processor
• DirectX compatible graphics card
• 32 MB graphics memory
• 400MB free disk space

These product specifications are subject to change without notice. This publication may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Productinformation and specifications are provided by Act-3D, B.V. “as is”, without any warranty of any kind, either express or implied. ©2008 Act-3D B.V. All right reserved. Act-3D™ and Quest3D™ are registered trade marks of Act-3D B.V. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders.