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Technology Features

Object-Oriented Design: easy to use C++ API
Technology System:
- platform Windows
- win32 windows
- automatic management of system events
- thread
- delegate
- linker
- field
- engine
- sharedPointer
Double rendering: OpenGL & Direct3D
Optimized shared resources management:
- textures
- meshs
- shaders
- font
Template math class:
- mathematical routines
- point2
- point3
- point4
- quaternion
- matrix3
- matrix4
- segment3
- ray3
- line3
- plane
- structures for space indexing
- bounding volume:
  - axis aligned box3
  - oriented box3
  - sphere3
- distance routines
- intersection routines
Orthographic camera and perspective camera support
Multiple camera manipulator:
- trackball
- first person
- free cam
- generates video and snapshoot of the context of rendering
Hardware antialiasing
Vertex processing
- software
- hardware
Geometry
- vertex declaration
- vertex buffer
- index buffer
Mesh
- level of detail (L.O.D.) mesh
- triangle stripper
- geometry loading from file, zip file, memory file, memory zip file
Terrain
- import from raw heightmap
- heightmaps loading from file, zip file, memory file, memory zip file
- quadtree support
- level of detail (L.O.D.) terrain support (geomorphing via GPU)
- multitexture splatting
- color interpolation
- precomputed shading and shadows (multiple lights)
- automatic frustum culling
Full shader support for the latest GPUs via Cg 1.5
- predefined semantic shader uniforms:
  - cam position
  - lighting
  - material
  - ...
- shaders loading from file, zip file, memory file, memory zip file
Texture
- Multiple texture format support:

basic manipulation/editing
render filtering:
- nothing
- linear
- trilinear
priority support
textures loading from file, zip file, memory file, memory zip file

Scenegraph
- tree structure
- rendering node
  - alpha
  - cull
  - lighting
  - lights
  - material
  - scissor
  - shader
  - texture
  - viewport
  - wireframe
  - zbuffer
- geometry node
- transform node
- general node
- automatic frustum culling
- automatic update of
  - matrix transform
  - bounding volume (axis aligned box3, oriented box3, sphere3)
  - structures for space indexing
Customizable GUI
- button
- panel
- label
- checkbox
- radiobutton
- combobox
- menu (horizontal / vertical)
- slider (horizontal / vertical)
- textedit
- progressbar (horizontal / vertical)
- widgetgroup (horizontal / vertical)
- richtextbox
- videobox
- treeview
- picturebox
- customizable widget
- window
- toolbox
- separator

VoyAGEr editor - Technology Features

standard modeling tools
- extrude region tools
  - extrude the face / faces
  - extrude vertex / vertices
  - the extrude region tool does not duplicate the edges between adiacent selected faces
- move / scale / rotate
  - modify the shape of selected faces, vertices, edges and objects
- mirror
  - mirror a mesh with respect to a selected area
- smooth
  - apply laplacian filter over selected faces
- smart selection
  - rectangular
  - free hand
  - wings3d style
- merge
  - merge selected faces / vertex / edges
- duplicate
  - duplicate the current selected entity
texturing tools
- 3D uv mapping
sculpt tool
- hyerarchical mesh modeling
- smooth operator
- masking operator
- mirror operator
it works on n-gon polygonal meshes and subdivision surfaces