3d

Realtime environments are visually a little different from the videos you'll often see in animation and movies.

To create such complex environments in an interactive way, some visual shortcuts need to be made. This FAQ descibes the difference between the two forms of content.

To make environment creation easier for people unfamiliar with 3D tools, ARDI includes a Floorplan Converter.

This can take a simple vector drawing of your walls, such as those created in Inkscape, Illustrator or Autocad, and convert them into 3D environments.

The floorplan converter can operate in one of two different modes...

One area where 3D visualisations excel over traditional 2D ones is when you are looking at measurements that are being taken in multiple locations across the surface of an object.

Because the object itself is three-dimensional, there's a lot of mental effort involved in translating from a 2D drawing to the 3D object. The more complex the shape of the object, the harder the work is to figure out exactly where a point on the 2D screen is on the real asset.