10th December, 2012
 
VR-Forces 4.1: Raising the Bar for Scenario Generation
 
MÄK is excited to announce that in January 2013, we will release VR-Forces 4.1. This release introduces significant changes in the way people will use VR-Forces; specifically, it raises the bar on the type and complexity of the scenarios users can create. These changes aren’t incremental - they are revolutionary.

Like most VR-Forces releases, this one is packed with exciting new features including tactical graphics, which work in both 2D and 3D view modes allowing users to understand their tactical environment quickly and easily. We have added new models such as mortar teams and bombs, both smart JDAM GBUs and CBUs. You will also find new camera effects view modes so that in-set views can mimic IR or NVG sensor views as you create and play your scenario. We have increased the fidelity of our artillery model so that users can enable the simulation of individual rounds from both mortars and other artillery units. By simulating individual rounds, simulations that are using radar to detect incoming rounds can now use VR-Forces to stimulate their virtual environments.
We are also significantly overhauling the way entities are created in VR-Forces. This is necessary because we are committed to significantly increasing the simulation model set content in VR-Forces. The 4.1 release will add fifty more simulation models and we plan to add hundreds more throughout the coming year. You can now assign all entity types to any force type on creation. Additionally, users can search for model types by model name, country, or category simply by typing a few characters. You can also tag entities in VR-Forces as favorites, which will then show up on the right click menu for fast future reference.

The most exciting change to VR-Forces 4.1, however, is the addition of Lua scripted tasks. This feature allows users to quickly script tasks that are significantly more complex than previously possible. Lua is a lightweight and relatively simple scripting language used widely in the commercial video game industry. (If you want to know more about Lua you can have a look here: www.lua.org.) What’s significant about Lua scripting is that both MÄK and our customers will be able to generate higher level state machine based tasks, complete with an automatically generated task GUI, in a record amount of time. It’s difficult to describe just how powerful this new feature is, so here are a few tasks we’ve already created:
  • Aircraft Holding - A tasked plane will assume a racetrack holding pattern using the correct entry criteria at the specified altitude and velocity.
  • Talk to Friends - When assigned to multiple people in a B-HAVE environment, most of the people will wander around, but occasionally pairs of people will stop and talk to each other.
  • Move In Cover - An aggregate formation will move between cover points using a bounding over watch - scheme. Entities will run between cover positions while other teams’ members keep weapons trained on threat.
  • Place a bomb - An entity can be tasked to place a bomb in a given location.
  • Provide Close Air Support - a tasked aircraft will take the 9 Line CAS inputs and execute a bombing mission
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About EDS Technologies
 
EDS Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (EDST), established in 1995, is the largest PLM and Real-Time Visual Simulation solutions provider in India, with its corporate office in Bangalore and having direct presence in Chennai, Gurgaon, Noida, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Pune, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. EDST, an established Value added reseller with global leaders like Dassault Systemes, Presagis, VT-MAK provides PLM and 3D Visual simulation COTS solutions, PLM Training and Trained on-site resources bringing in the most complete solution for any size and type of industry.

EDST's differentiation is its domain expertise, consultative approach and hands-on understanding of customer requirements required to drive successful implementations with world class training and technical support. Having more than 17 years of experience, EDST has the largest customer base in the Indian market with more than 1000 customers from aerospace, automotive & supply chains, industrial machinery, high-tech and electronics, railways, infrastructure, consumer packaged goods, engineering service providers, defence, research and education sectors.
 
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