My personnal MER 3d software Options

[Indian3000]

2 screenshot of my personal 3d reconstruction software
this is present "AE" site of spirit.
based on "XYL" et "RSL" NASA product et some algorithms.








and a small video of my personal 3d software

Mars Rover Center Video

sorry for bad quality of video, but video file size it's a problem for me, i do'nt have big web space.

edit : sorry for private video setting it's public now

[Indian3000]

First Release

please do'nt forget to read my preceding post on installation

.NET 2.0, SQLServer 2005 Express Edition, and direct 9.0c

installation
juste unzip file in one directory
launch "MarsRoverCenter3DSiteViewer.exe"

download XYL and RSL product and put it in same directory ( one directory by ROVER/SITE )

Using
click NEW 3d site
click add file only XYL product, Software autodetect RSL file in same directory
Click View and wait some time ( if the MESH file is not found, software generate it, if he found it, he load the last ... )

keys in 3d world are
left,right, up, down arrows for Rotation
Shift + arrows for Pan
F4 : WireFrame / Solid Draw
wheel : zoom



caution
- no site mix
- you can mix drive on same site
- in first time not load over 30 XYL, try before with 1 .. 2 .. 4 .. 10 XYL.
- use navcam XYL in first time.
- 32 bits graphic card requis.( see my post about this )


please give my a feedback ( if success or fail, give me the graphic card model )

a small tutorial come in little time

once again it's alpha alpha alpha software

good luck and have fun

 MarsRoverCenter3DSiteViewer_R1.zip ( 756.5K ) Number of downloads: 1238

Cool. I'll be in touch It's been a while since I was in Brussels..

Do you know, by any chance Paul Vauterin? He's into 3-D modeling as well, made a presentation of the solar system open to visitors here at the observatory in Ghent.

Nico

unfortunately, I do not know him