Real-time
A Ventuz scene is rendered 60 times a second, this means that changes concerning the content, design or data from external files, applications and controlling systems will take effect immediately. Thus, Ventuz is a state-of-the-art WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) system; you see the final rendered scene, while building it up. Surprise your customers with last-minute content changes, live movies embedded in your 3d world, or interactive parameter changes through various input and output nodes. Become acquainted with a new workflow of 3d rendering.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy describes the creation of the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two slightly different versions of the particular image for each eye. Ventuz as a real-time tool for 3D-content is by nature capable of creating stereoscopic projects. With Ventz, this new technology is easily accessible and the creation of S3D-presentations doesn't require more time or money.
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Video Implementation
Ventuz allows for the easy integration of video content into your presentation. Supporting formats such as WMV, MPEG, h.264 and AVI as well as Quicktime Animations, Ventuz gives you ultimate flexibility when working with video and 3D.
3D Import
Ventuz supports the import of several 3D formats such as COLLADA, 3DS, OBJ, RTG and X. Besides the possibility of importing geometry data, materials and textures you can also import camera data and animation via COLLADA. Collada can be exported from nearly all DCC tools. This gives you the possibility of designing complex models in your favored DCC tools and rendering them in real-time in Ventuz. The hierarchical structure of your model can be maintained in Ventuz to create complex animations. It is also possible to reduce complexity during the import to improve rendering performance.
Font Engine
One of our major focuses has been on the completely revised and extended Font Engine that gives you unlimited possibilities in creating appealing text styles. Benefit from having full control over mesh font creation like beveling mesh fonts to lend your texts more attractiveness. Different bevel styles can be applied to any font. Four different resolutions for mesh and texture fonts will fit all your demands in SD and HD resolutions.
Animation
The Ventuz Designer offers various possibilities in creating dynamic motions. Motion manipulators, such as the oscillator or motion damping, help add physical accuracy to your animation. Beside conventional linear animation editing mode, Ventuz provides a comprehensive non-linear state-based animation model (state engine) to very easily create complex non-linear animations. Even embedded animation controls, within another animation such as cascading animations, can be provided. Since embedded animations work like any other key frame animation, they can be combined with regular key frame animations.
External Data
Ventuz comes with a Midi component that allows the use of not only musically based devices like master keyboards and midi controllers, but also the entire range of analogue to MIDI sensors, like heat, or distance sensors. Another important feature is the FFT component, which analyses your audio input, divided in 15 wave bands. In this way impressive VJ visuals can be realized with ease. The RSS Feed component allows sourcing RSS feeds directly from the www and displaying them in your three dimensional world. Due to Microsoft’s .NET technology it is extremely simple to realize a data exchange between Ventuz and Excel or to receive data from XML or .txt files.
Project Management
The Ventuz Designer is especially optimized for working in large user groups. A comprehensive project management system provides perfect assessment of all projects, their settings and hardware profiles. All members of the team have full access to the project repositories. Objects, trees and even whole scenes can be collected and shared over LAN. They can be used by every team member, simply by drag and drop.
Text Effects
Ventuz allows you to use various text effects like circle, alpha, spark and shrink to fit effects. Combine multiple Text Effects by linking the output of one Text Effect to the input of another Text Effect. Text Effects can be applied to both types of text rendered in Ventuz (Texture and Mesh Text).
Graphic User Interface
Ventuz provides a completely customizable user interface, which allows an efficiently and fast way to work. Even though the possibilities of the software seem to be infinite, the Ventuz GUI is very intuitive and easy to learn. The layout is not fixed. The GUI with all its windows can be changed according to the workflow. Every window can be scaled, repositioned, undocked and moved to a second monitor. In respect to our customer’s wish list we developed the possibility of choosing from different colour schemes for a better handling.
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System requirements
Hardware
CPU:Intel or AMD processor with ≥ 2 GHz (Dualcore / Quadcore CPU ≥ 2 GHz recommended)
Memory: 1GB (2GB for 32bit or 4GB for 64bit recommended)
Harddisk: 500MB or above with 7.200 rpm (for video playback harddisk with ≥ 10.000 rpm or RAID 0 for enthusiast performance recommended)
Graphics Card: We recommend professional graphics cards only.