TruFlite - Features

TruFlite - Fact Sheet

TruFlite for Windows is one of the most powerful 3D landscape rendering systems available on the market. One of its most distinctive advantages compared with its competitors are TruFlite's amazing capabilities to deal with very complex surface grids.

You are able to render millions of gouraud-shaded texture-mapped polygons on a standard PC.

Windows program originally designed for this platform
specialized Windows 3.x and Windows 95/NT versions available
runs on PCs
3D renderer capable of rendering millions of polygons
up to 200 million polygons is not uncommon, whereas in fact there is no upper limit
24 bit resolution in elevation, which is 65536 times as precise than TruFlite's few competitors
with the 16 bit version you can handle files up to 16 MB
with the 32 bit version you are only restricted by your Windows system; for tourism office 3D maps we use 20 to 100 MB texture and elevation files covering e. g. Joshua Tree N. M. at 1 arc second resolution or Salzburg, Austria, with a 10 meter Landsat texture.
comprehensive context sensitive help system
intuitive, easy-to-use control desk
renders multiple sceneries simultanelously
utilizes Gouraud shading
antialiasing/color interpolation can be parameterized
light effects
fog effects
fast wireframe scenery preview
size or aspect ratio of texture file needs not be the same as of elevation file (automatic resizing at run-time)
allows masking, you can overlay your own logo
produces single images or series of images for creating animations
input files: TGA format; any bitmap editor capable of loading TGA files can load TruFlite elevation or texture files as well
output files: TGA and/or YUV
import filters for:

ASCII x/y/z

U.S. Geological Survey 3 arc second DEMs

U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute (30 meter) DEMs

U.S. Geological Survey 30 arc second BILs

Erdas Imagine® binary files

Idrisi binary file import filter

ARC/View DEM files

generic binary file import filter

import of multiple DEMs - tiling is done automatically
output can be compiled to FLI/FLC, AVI, MOV or MPEG animations
edit/clipboard copy/print preview/print functions even during the rendering process
animations: move along straight lines or along a closed curve
define the flight path by clicking and dragging the waypoints directly on the map
export or import images via the clipboard
rectify or rotate texture data from scanned maps to fit the elevation data
use scanned maps as source for elevation data, create DEM files out of height contour lines
the crew that has been developing TruFlite over the past decade are all C++ and visualization experts as well
the program emerged from an object oriented design process from the very beginning which makes it now easy for us to adapt it to any future needs