[Gvsig_english] OSG Virtual Planets, the core of gvSIG3D.

[Rafa Gaitan]

Hi gvsig-devels!,

With lots of effort, finally we are able to announce the *OSG Virtual
Planets Framework*[1,2,3].

*osgVP* is a complete *Open Software (GPL)* framework that helps in the crea
tion of 3D GIS Planets or Terrains completely based in *OpenSceneGraph*[4].
It Is designed to be completely dynamic allowing you to visualize *Raster
Layers (Texture and Elevations)*, and in the near future we will include
efficient and multiresolution management of Vectorial Layers.

*osgVP* has been created in C++ and using JNI technology exposes the API to
Java. It was created in the scope of  the project *gvSIG *specifically* *the
*gvSIG-3D*[5] extension.

The main features of the system are:

   - Written in C++ with wrappers and utilities in Java using JNI.
   - Wrappers the most useful classes of OSG to Java.
   - Easy integration with Swing/AWT/SWT through a viewer library that makes
   use of JOGL and osgViewer libraries.
   - Allow the creation of planets and terrains with dynamic pagination wit
   hout creating previously the database.
   - Supports dynamic management of raster layers per planet.
   - Supports the creation and management of GIS features(3D Text, Pixel and
   Meter Points, PolyLines and Tesselated Polygons, extrusion and shapes).
   - Extends the osgManipulator library making it simpler to use and adding
   new features, such group/ungroup.
   - Gives a complete set of examples for help in the development and test
   ing.
   - Developed around a set of unit tests to validate the functionality.
   - Gives a set of Eclipse Plugins based on the library. Geoviewer and a
   OSG 3D Editor.

Currently the release version is based in OpenSceneGraph 2.2.0 version, but
current development version (unestable) compiles with the trunk of
OpenSceneGraph.

[1] gvSIG-commons of osgVP:
https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-commons/osgvp
[2] Public Subversion Repository:
           Stable: svn co
http://subversion.gvsig.org/osgvp/tags/osgvp-2.1.7osgvp-2.1.7
           Trunk: svn co http://subversion.gvsig.org/osgvp/trunk osgvp
           ViewVC: http://subversion.gvsig.org/viewvc/?root=osgvp
[3] Last Release Download:
https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-commons/osgvp/downloads
[4] OpenSceneGraph Web Site: http://www.openscenegraph.org
[5] Last Build of gvSIG-3D:
https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/devel/gvsig-1_9/ext/3d/

Regards!
Rafa.

-- 
Rafael Gaitán Linares
Instituto de Automática e Informática Industrial  http://www.ai2.upv.es
Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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