HLA and RTIs: What’s with all the crazy names?

Jim Kogler Product Manager, Link Products | June 29, 2010

Frequently people write to support and say “My RTI Crashed!”, or they write “I have 10 federates, and the RTI is installed on Machine X.” When I read sentences like these I sometimes cringe. I cringe because RTIs really don’t crash; a component of your RTI crashed. Maybe I cringe because I have been working [...]

vrvAudio for VR-Vantage 1.2 Available on Bonus Page

Brett Wiesner Product Manager, Visualize Products | June 23, 2010

We added something new to the MAK bonus page (http://mak.com/community/bonus_material.php) today – vrvAudio a free sound plug-in for VR-Vantage. This simple plug-in works with DIS or HLA connections and uses entity types to figure out what sound to play. It’s pretty much what the pre-VR-Vantage Stealth had. We intend to add better sound capability to [...]

Design Decision: Where is the rtiexec GUI?

Jim Kogler Product Manager, Link Products | June 11, 2010

Today I want to discuss a key design decision we made with the RTI in version 3.4: we removed the rtiexec user interface. For many years the MÄK RTI’s rtiexec had two user interfaces: a console and a QT based GUI. In version 3.4, we removed both options and made the rtiexec a simple daemon [...]