awaron tucan series Rel. 7.2

Due to the need of clients awaron is proud to announce the pre-Release of tucan series Rel.7.2. This Release is owed to those customers who need part of the functionality witch is road mapped for Rel.7.5. 

Release 7.2 of the tucan series VR solution suite is mainly based on 3 function blocks which are very use- and powerful:

  • QuickTime VR support for tucan design. This makes tucan design to an editor for Apples QuickTime VR format
  • Additional functionality in the tucan series movie plug-in
  • Release of the first tucan series resource library CD

OuickTime VR 

This format is made for distributing virtual worlds in 3D using very small data and a player every MAC and MS Windows PC has already installed. It is also possible to enhance the value of websites by adding high-end 3D views into the content. This emphasizes tucans entitlement having the most multimedia export opportunities on the market. Along with the decision to implement the QuickTime VR format from Apple tucan has the possibility to serve customer with a lot of functionality:

  • Panorama and panorama movies
  • Combine panorama within your website
  • Object view
  • Automatic .MOV(ie) file creation
  • Selectable resolution and position
  • Predefined scenes for the object view

tucan series movie plug-in 

The use of splines for a camera path is implemented within the functionality of the tucan series movie plug-in for tucan design. This was a strong need from customer side to make the new movie module a powerful assistant.

tucan series resource library CD

Another very useful thing is the release of the tucan series resources library. On one CD is the content of year of work and design. All of the data is free of charge for tucan series customers. The CD is part of the tucan series bundles like tucan series studio or professional etc. The customers get the CD for free depending on what he is buying. For more information please have a look on our website. The features of the tucan series resource library:

  • 750 MB of checked and overworked data
  • Complete scenes for presentations in the area of GIS, city visualizations, product visualizations, industrial visualizations, etc. 
  • Complete objects with textures and materials and some with animations
  • Thousands of textures, all with an quadratic resolution
  • Different types of sky domes textures for the simulation of different daytimes
  • Different types of billboard textures like people and trees, etc.
  • Thousands of sounds for the use with animations and free music for the background in scenes
  • Animations and textures for special use like fire, lightning, torch, explosion, water etc.

Because of the high-end functionality of tucan, different Levels of Detail (LOD) are not needed. But some users like to have different quality of presentation with objects., like cars or office tools. This is the reason why the resource CD has also a part with different types of LODs for objects.