WASP3D 2009 offers WASPi Mimosa, the Touch Screen based application for presentation of content in an engaging and interactive way. WASPi Mimosa is a touch-screen based application that gives the user (anchor) extreme flexibility and total control over the graphics system. Instead of using a mouse click, or cueing for graphics change, the anchor can simply use their hands for pointing, clicking and interacting with the graphics on screen.
WASPi Mimosa gives the presenter host of interactive features like telestration (for drawing arrows, highlighters, ellipses etc.), gesture based actions (including zoom, pan, rotate), multi touch options, menu & other tools for building complex interactive scenes.
One of the key highlights of WASP3D 2009 is that it can be easily used by television stations of any size for their basic data driven graphics req- uirements without writing complex codes. Unlike any other broadcast graphics systems available today, Drone Designer (graphics creation module of WASP3D) allows hassle-free creation of data entryform within the same module. This means that the graphic artists do not have to use a separate application for form creation.
Drone Designer 2009 New Design Effects and Features
Unified Basic Templating (UBT)
One of the major features introduced in Drone Designer 2009 is the ability to design the ‘Data Input’ user interface of the graphics template. Users can simply drag-drop the defined variable elements (User-Tags) to that it can be easily used by television stations of any size for their basic data driven graphics requirements without writing complex codes.
Widgets for WASP (WFW)
Drone Designer 2009 comes with a unique quick access ‘Touch Screen Toolbar’ which enables the user to move commonly used controls such as pan, zoom or rotate on a separate touch screen monitor.
Real-time Reflection & Refractions
Add realism to your scene graphs with Real-time Reflection including flat mirrors using snapshot textures. Give your object(s) a see through glass like Real-time Refraction using Render Target Textures.
Phong Shading – HLSL Shaders
With the same number of polygons, achieve realistic visual representation of the scene objects. The specular highlights in Phong tend to be more accurate and the vertex highlights much sharper. WASP3D also offers Gouraud and Flat Shading modes.
3D Text with Character Based Effects
Text effects provide the flexibility of spline based character-wise animations. Graphic Artist can create custom character animations: type-write, fly-ins, erase, translate, scale and rotate-on the characters local or global transformation axis. The text objects can be defined to act as Countdowns, Date, Time objects, Clock objects, Integers and more.
Particle System & Particle Dynamics
Real-time emitter based particles with wind, gravity, speed parameters help in achieving realistic effects. Objects & shapes can also be the emitted particles of the particle system. Graphic Designer can now create realistic explosions, water, snow, rain & more.
Real time Shadows
Shadows based on scene lights with shadow casting and receiving functionality. Drone. Artists also have the flexibility to have 2D shadows based on Offset and Angles.
Shape File Imports (.shp)
Import ESRI geospatial vector data format and assign colors to the database associated polygons. Shape file database shows the region names in poly data property where you can set the column name as area code, state name etc. and can drag-drop colors for individual polygon from the color swatch provided.
Real-time Bump Mapping
Real-time Bump Mapping adds realism to rendered surfaces where lighter (whiter) areas of the texture map appear to be raised, and darker (blacker) areas appear to be low. This result is a richer, more detailed surface representation.
