Visual & Sensor Image Generation – VR-Vantage IG

3D Image Generation for Out-the-Window, Camera, and Sensor Channels

VR-Vantage IG is an image generation software solution from VT MÄK. Install it on any standard PC with an NVIDIA graphics card and immediately start generating realistic 3D scenes of your simulation environment. Whether you use it to render a first-person view for a virtual trainer, to provide a sensor channel for a UAV simulation, or to generate simulated security camera feeds for a homeland security application, VR-Vantage IG is easy to deploy and configure.  

• PC-based IG Software
• 3D Image Generation
• CIGI, HLA, and DIS Compliant
• Shader-based environment rendering
• SensorFX Module for EO/IR/NVG
• Multi-Channel distributed rendering
• Large area terrain database paging
• Terrain agile
• Based on OpenSceneGraph
• Customizable through VR-Vantage Toolkit

Distributed Rendering

VR-Vantage IG’s built-in distributed rendering architecture supports many different dis­play configurations — from simple desktop deployments to multi-channel displays for virtual cockpits and training systems. An intuitive GUI allows you to connect to remote display engines running on additional PCs, configure channel parameters, and set up viewing frustums.  

Host-IG Interface

VR-Vantage IG supports the industry-standard CIGI (Common Image Generator Inter­face) protocol for controlling the IG from a separate simulation host. Through CIGI, your host application can control the eyepoint, place and control moving models, load terrains, set visual parameters, and more. VR-Vantage IG can also provide mission func­tions by responding to line-of-sight and height-above-terrain queries.

But VR-Vantage IG does not require you implement a dedicated IG control protocol like CIGI. It also natively supports the High Level Architecture (HLA) and Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocols, so that it can generate scenes based directly on the Computer Generated Forces (CGF) and other entity traffic that you are already publishing on your distributed simulation network. You can send special DIS or HLA messages to con­trol the eyepoint, or use the run-time GUI to place the eyepoint at a simulated camera location on the terrain, or to attach to a specific HLA or DIS entity.

SensorFX for Physics-based Sensor Displays

The SensorFX module converts VR-Vantage IG from a visual scene generator to a sen­sor scene generator. Based on the SenSim and SigSim run-time products from JRM Technologies, SensorFX models the physics of light energy as it is emitted, reflected, and transmitted through the atmosphere and into a sensing device. It also models the collection and processing properties of the sensing device to render an accurate electro-optical (EO), night vision (NVG), or infrared (IR) scene. Many of the models that come with VR-Vantage IG are already “sensor-ready,” but you can use JRM’s Genesis tool to materially classify the textures in your terrain and custom models.