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Toulouse -- April 2 2010 -- Vertice, creator and editor of the NOVA real time 3D engine, presents its new real time 3D engine, NOVA 2010, one of the first DirectX10 interactive 3D engines of the market. NOVA 2010 will surprise with always more ergonomics, graphics performances and opening.

NOVA 2010: REAL TIME 3D FOR ALL

The ergonomics of NOVA Studio, which is its interface, has been completely revised for more simplicity and intuitivity. One can from now on change the textures on the fly, select colors with a dynamic chromatic wheel, visualize the lights and the cameras of the scene while being able to duplicate them, move them or create some on the fly, to change the focal distance, to capture screenshots of the scene in preset formats, to restore the position of a camera…. The enrichment of the Design mode also makes it possible to directly design a scene from scratch in Nova Studio. Nova 2010 also offers new import formats from 3D software: NOVA 2010 opens from now on formats as FBX, DXF, OBJ and 3DS in addition to DAE and X formats. NOVA 2010 also manages the customized importers in the form of plugins.

AN INTERACTIVE 3D ENGINE IN FULL DIRECTX 10

The move of NOVA 2010 to DirectX 10 allows the support of the 4.0 shaders, which improves the visual performances and quality while allowing to have access to new graphic options. The use of the 4.0 shaders brings in particular more speed for the shadows, the particles, the bones and allows to get high-resolution textures. NOVA 2010 preserves nevertheless a full compatibility with DirectX 9.



In terms of performances and compatibility, Nova 2010 manages DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for the Nova Web Player. It also brings a full support of the 64 bits with a unified installer for all the versions of Nova and the support 3ds Max 2011 and Revit 2011. It also offers an extension of the Nova Web Player to IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. Vertice also implemented in NOVA 2010 a new version of its Vortex Physics engine: new system of interactions between physical objects and animated objects, support of the multithreading, new algorithm of contacts for a largely improved stability, support of the gravitational and repulsive fields of attraction.



The important improvements of NOVA 2010 on a graphics point of view are:

· Vertice has fully redesigned it real time shadows engine to bring more precision and simplicity in the settings. It is also more powerful and adds the supports of the real soft shadows.

· New post-process effects: blur, motion blur, depth of field.

· Ambient Occlusion: allows to give more realism to the scenes by a system of attenuation of the lights and shadows.



NOVA 2010 also offers three new functionalities that need to be underlined:

· The multi-touch mode, to be used on multi-touch touchscreens as well as on the Microsoft Surface Table.

· The compatibility with the NVIDIA 3D Vision stereoscopy technology which allows to visualize scenes in 3D and the possibility to display simultaneously a scene several screens (horizontal split, vertical split, sterescopy, multi-cameras).

* Possibility to define webcams as sources of textures.



“NOVA 2010 will surprise many by its ergonomics pushed to the extreme", declared Yann Faure, director of Vertice. “Vertice knows that a tool, however powerful it can be, does not make everything if the users do not manage to use it intuitively and do not find the required functionalities." he added.



If you want to have a demonstration of NOVA 2010 by the Vertice Staff at Laval Virtual, do not hesitate to get in touch with: Laetitia D'Urso –Actual Public Relations Agency – email: [email protected]

About Vertice

Founded in 2002, Vertice is located in Toulouse. Vertice is a Young Innovating Company (JEI) which was elected in 2003 1st Innovating Company at the time of the Mêlée Numérique. Vertice develops and distributes the Nova range and accompanies its customers in the customization of applications. www.vertice.fr