improvements in 3D symbology

Hi Community,

Following video shows the improvements we are doing in symbology for gvSIG 3D in gvSIG 2.0 series. We added a new symbology panel (still in development) for 3D symbols. Now you can symbolize your layers with simple markers, picture markers, 3D objects and particle systems... :)

These advances came with "España Virtual" Project, and right now we are working towards an alpha release of the 3D extension for gvSIG 2.0.

Last workshop of "España Virtual" project

Hi all,

We just came back from the last workshop of "España Virtual" CENIT project. It was held at IGN (Instituto Geográfico Nacional) headquarters in Madrid. We saw very interesting and high-level presentations from the members of this project, and we tried to do our best in our turn showing our last developments... :).

We were glad to see gvSIG and specially gvSIG 3D being used in very different scenarios, from scientific visualization to building representations.

From this blog we want to thank all this people (administration, companies and universities) for making this project possible and for pushing gvSIG and gvSIG 3D.

We'd like to thank to Prodevelop for trusting us in this adventure. Specially to Nacho Brodín, Viqui Agazzi and Miguel Montesinos. Also thanks to the people of Deimos for their patience and their great work coordinating this project (specially to Jorge Blanco, Miguel Lizondo and Carlos Fernandez).

We will show some of the work done in the scope of this project in future posts.

Improvements in elevation layers

Hi community,

This new video shows the new system to load elevation layers and how osgVirtualPlanets deal with overlapping layers. Before this change gvSIG 3D (gvSIG 1.x series) cannot show the overlapping zones and the rendering was done using fixed pipeline, now (gvSIG 3D for gvSIG 2.0 series) this areas are merged in realtime in a terrain shader.

There are changes in lighting calculation that give the 3D view smooth shading feeling and a better appearance.

We'd like to thank to Maria Ten for her work, and we wish she feels great in her new job.
Thank you and good luck Maria!!! ... :)

Loading netCDF Files in gvSIG 3D (for gvSIG 2.0 series)

Hi all,

We are very busy preparing an upcoming Workshop for España Virtual project, but we think it could be interesting to show to you these new features: loading raster and vectorial netCDF files.

This work has been done with the kindly help of Nacho Brodín and Jorge Piera, both from Prodevelop. Thank you guys!!

First video shows gvSIG 3D loading a raster netCDF file and working with it.



The second one shows a ship travel vectorial netCDF file, and how to apply a time filter.



Sorry for this short explanation, more videos are coming soon!

AI2 3D Viz group capabilities

Hi all,

Here we are after the 7th International gvSIG Conference. We were glad to see the interest demonstrated by the audience to our seminar.

We are very grateful to the project España Virtual, Prodevelop, CNIG and the gvSIG association for their support so far. But now the ai2 team is in trouble due to the lack of funding. As you probably know, the downturn has a very negative impact on R&D teams. We want to continue developing gvSIG 3D, osgVirtualPlanets and any new challenges proposed.
 
The following video shows the capabilities of our team. Some of the features showcased in the video have been developed in the scope of gvSIG 3D. Others are prototypes or research projects we are working on. Our expertise is in 3D GIS visualization for desktop and mobile environments, also in OpenSceneGraph. So if you are interested in contributing in any manner contact us.

Enjoy the video and switch on your speakers!

Animation video tutorial

Hi all!

This time we want to share a contribution from Mario Carrera, from the gvSIG team. It explains how to make an animation with the animation extension. He is kindly explaining 3D extension on meetings and conferences where we are not able to be. Thanks for that too Mario :) . 

As you know, we are near the 7th International gvSIG Conference and the ai2 team will be there talking about 3D extension. We will post soon about the contents here and in the gvSIG Blog.

Check the gvSIG videos section and the gvSIG3D youtube channel  for more tutorials!

cityGML patch for windows

Hi again!

Here it is the patch for windows. As we said in the previous post the implementation is based on the library libcitygml[1]. This open source project is still in development and we'd like to thank to Joachim Pouderoux (the main developer) for his kindly help. 

The work is in progress, but we think it is a good moment to let the community to test this new feature. The patch is now available for linux and windows. The instructions to install it in windows are the following -also available in a README.txt file- (see [2] to install in linux):

1. Download the file for your Operating System from[3]. 
2. Make sure you have installed gvSIG-1.11[4] and the final release of 3D extension[5].   
3. Unzip the patch into a temporal directory.
4. Copy bin directory into your gvSIG installation directory,  usually located at: C:\Program Files\gvSIG_1.X.X\
5. 3) Copy the content of Java directory into your current Java VM directory: 
   C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0.X\
   
6. Run gvSIG 1.11 and follow the videotutorial[2]

Important note: If you have different Java VM installed in your system 
you can check if the folder jre1.X.X/bin has a subfolder called osgPlugins-2.8.3 
to check the correct version (the one used by gvSIG and the 3D extension). 
In addition, some windows systems need administrator privileges to overwrite this files.

[1]http://code.google.com/p/libcitygml/
[2]http://gvsig3d.blogspot.com/2011/09/patch-to-load-citygml-models-in-gvsig.html
[3]http://www2.ai2.upv.es/difusion/gvsig3d/citygml_patch/
[4]http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.11/downloads
[5]http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.10/extensiones-gvsig-1.10/extension-3d/downloads