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New tutorial about the interactive change of materials in Nova

19/10/2011

Michel Rousseau, our lead artist, offers you a new tutorial about the interactive change of materials with Nova.

You will find in the Support->Tutorials section of our website a video explaining how to create an interactivity to change a material in a Nova scene.

 

Previous news ( recents )

Imagina 2011:Vertice presents its Nova4Kinect solution

28/01/2011

Vertice takes the opportunity of its participation to Imagina which is held in Monaco from February 1 to 3, 2011 to unveil the integration of Kinect in Nova Studio 2010 (Stand A16b).

An overview of the solution can be watched here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ieg_xABzs

It will also be an opportunity for Imagina visitors to discover or re-discover Nova Studio 2010 and its new functionalities:
• Support of DirectX 10 with support of the shaders 4.0
• New real-time shadows engine
• New physical engine
• New post-process effects
• Possibility to display a scene on several screens simultaneously
• Compatibility with the NVIDIA 3D Vision technology
• Extension of Nova Web Player to IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome
• New import formats issued from 3D softwares
• Possibility to define some webcams as source of textures
• Real-time Ambiant Occlusion
• An even better ergonomy
• Full support of the 64 bits
• Support of the multi-touch

The topicality of Vertice has been rich in 2010 with the release of Nova 2010, the price repositioning of the range and the arrival of a free version, a new company image and a new Web site, the selection of Vertice in the finalists of the Microsoft contest for his Nova4Phone application and finally the choice by Autodesk of Vertice as a partner for its “Architecture Preferred Industry Partner Program”.

Thus come to meet the qualified and dynamic team who has developed one of the most recognized engines on the 3D interactive market for its simplicity, its graphic qualities and its innovating solutions.

Migrate at half price to Nova Studio!

15/12/2010

You own a license of a competitor of Nova Studio that doesn't answer your needs?

Then do change for Nova Studio Ultimate for as low as the price of an upgrade, only 1745€ excl. VAT!

Please contact us to know the conditions and the eligible products.

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Get trained to Nova Studio 2010!

14/12/2010

After the success of the first edition which happened in Paris in November, a new training session on Nova Studio 2010 with 3ds Max (in French) is organized at Vertice headquarter.

Learn all the basis of the use of Nova Studio:
·         When: January February 7 to 11 2011
·         Where: in Toulouse at Vertice headquarter
·         Program: Objects parameters - scene, objects, lights, cameras properties - collisions - materials - animations - creation of interactions

Register to this training session, for only € 1,750 excluding tax, wich is open to everybody, owners of professional licenses as well as users of the demo version of Nova Studio.
The number of attendants is limited, so register now!
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New release of Nova Studio

13/12/2010

A new release of Nova Studio 2010 (build 6.0.0.25) is available as a download or throught the automatic update mecanism of Nova Studio.

It brings new functionalities, like:
·         Compatibility with Autodesk Revit 2011 (white mode rendering only)
·         Improvement of the files import mechanism of FBX, DXF, OBJ, DAE, 3DS and X formats
·         Possibility to create rules to customize your imports
·         Possibility to integrate the entities browser and the properties in the executable files

Discover all the new functionalties of Nova 2010 online.

Vertice and Autodesk: an interactive real-time 3D collaboration

23/11/2010

As a partner, Vertice is better able to deliver powerful solutions that extend the benefits of Autodesk architecture software.

The collaboration between Autodesk and Vertice helps provide a stronger, more accurate foundation for creating designs more efficiently. What’s more, the power of Autodesk Architecture solutions and Vertice helps to take your design ideas further.

“Together, Autodesk and Vertice provide an easy and intuitive way to experience designs in an interactive, simulated environment — enabling higher productivity and competitive advantage.” —Brook Potter, Sr. Industry Manager, Autodesk, Architecture

Nova Studio is unique because 3D models can be transformed within minutes into fully interactive 3D scenes without specialized knowledge of interactive 3D. Data from 3ds Max or Autodesk Revit, including models, textures and animations is easily exported to Nova’s intelligent 3D engine and used to create a real-time environment as the viewer takes a virtual visit. Decision makers or end-users can navigate within the project and interact with it.

Download the Autodesk/Vertice Preferred Partner brochure

 

Vertice applies with Nova4Phone to the Windows Phone 7 contest

08/09/2010

After a desktop, Web and Microsoft Surface versions, Vertice reveals its latest Nova application developed especially for the Microsoft contest and dedicated to the mobile devices operating under Windows Phone 7.

Two first videos are published on the Facebook “Developers” page of to highlight the official registration to the competition and thus to present the killer-app “Nova4Phone” of Vertice to all the Net surfers already interested:

• 1st video Vertice - Nova4Phone:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1413141241316

• 2nd video Vertice - Nova4Phone:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=461276955395
 
Thanks to the votes of the Facebook community, the seven videos who will get the most rates “I like” will be selected for a final presentation in front of Steve Ballmer and a jury of French contractors and investors, on October 7.

“Nova4Phone”, developed by David Catuhe, cofounder and chief technical officer of Vertice is an complete real-time 3D engine. The application allows to visualize real-time 3D scenes  on any telephone operating under Windows Phone 7. As long as the scene is created with a standard 3D modeling tool, it is then possible to export it towards Nova4Phone (via Nova Studio), and thus to fully benefit from the visual effects offered by real-time 3D:
- animation engine,
- collision engine,
- multi-cameras,
- management of the lightmaps,
- management of the interactions,
- management of the users interactions , etc

“To take part in such a contest is essential for a young and dynamic company like Vertice. It is a true challenge which enables us to show our know-how and the capacities of the Nova software to be adapted to the Microsoft platforms while remaining faithful to what makes our force: the speed and the quality of the rendering,” explains David Catuhe.

PROIN 3D works with VERTICE for the ADIF

20/07/2010

The ADIF, Administrator of the Spanish Railway Infrastructures, makes discover the future TGV station of Valencia (Spain) thanks to a real-time 3D modeling realized with the NOVA for 3ds Max of VERTICE solution, solution of creation and visualization of interactives 3D contents.

 
GOAL
 
To prepare its presence to the 30th edition of the FITUR in Madrid (International fair of Tourism), the ADIF (Administrator of the Spanish Railway Infrastructures) wished to offer to the public a virtual interactive 3D model representing the future high-speed station of Valencia.
 
CHOICE
 
PROIN 3D, intervening for the ADIF, adopts the NOVA 2009 solution of VERTICE to create an interactive model of future TGV station of Valencia.
 
Before the real-time realization, PROIN 3D was charged to conceive and realize for the ADIF a 3D film presenting the project of the station. All the 3D modelings and animations were done with the 3ds Max and Vray. The move to real-time was done with NOVA 2009 of VERTICE, after a large work of optimization of the 3D model and its textures. In spite of a plural offer on the 3D market, three reasons justify the choice of the NOVA 2009 of VERTICE solution:
 
- Its compatibility with 3ds Max, main 3D tool of ADIF.
- Its quality of rendering (shadows and reflexions), its ease of use and the no Royalties commercial policy.
- The customer assistance ensured by VERTICE.
 
In order to improve this 3D experience, the real-time project - allowing an immersion in the future infrastructure of the LGV LEVANTE - was projected at the show on a 6 meters diameter circular screen. Not less than 210.000 visitors present this year thus could discover and evolve in the real-time 3D scene using a joystick.
 
BENEFITS
 
 “It is a big innovation in Spain in term of 3D applied to the infrastructures. With the appearance of this new tool, the decision makers and the clients foresee for certain projects broader perspectives to communicate with the populations, for their public dialogues,” explains Bernard Bressy, in charge of the commercial development of PROIN 3D.
 
The ADIF finds, through real-time, a new way of communicating, a powerful and ludic tool because it is interactive. It is a complementary tool, which does not have the role to replace the informative videos already used for the presentation of projects.
 
The real-time 3D project of the TGV station of Valencia is thus a true success which should allow the opening of new markets.

Vertice reorganizes its Nova product range with an even more accessible pricing and a free product

08/04/2010

Vertice presents a new price positioning for its Nova range while launching NOVA Studio 2010, its new interactive 3D engine. Note also the arrival of a free version. With this new price positioning also comes the introduction of floating licenses.

The NOVA range of products is now made of 3 main offers: NOVA Studio, NOVA Server and NOVA SDK.

1/ NOVA Studio: new pricing and NOVA Studio Express for free

The Nova Studio range allows to create interactive 3D scenes and to diffuse the creations as executable files, web pages, high-res screen captures, high-res video captures...

NOVA Studio Express, a totally free tool, allowing to import files, to use the 3ds Max plug-in in a light version, to benefit from the classical special effects and from the Action Builder.

NOVA Studio Professional is a more complete offer with protected output formats, independent output formats, standard special effects, an advanced scripting tool, the Action Builder as well as shaders, animations and live video. It is available from 990€ EXCL. VAT, at 1490€ EXCL. VAT with the 3ds Max plug-in and at 1290€ EXCL. VAT with the Revit plug-in.

The most complete offer, NOVA Studio Ultimate brings more advanced functionalities (real-time shadows, ambient occlusion, advanced special effects, physics, multi-display, VR peripherals, …) for 3 490€ EXCL. VAT. It includes the 3ds Max and Revit plug-ins. This license is the equivalent of the previous Nova Advanced for 3ds Max license, sold at 7000€ EXCL. VAT!

NOVA Studio Education is an offer dedicated to universities, schools and students. The license offers all the functionalities of the Nova Studio Ultimate license but cannot be used for production. The Starter license is sold at 500€ EXCL. VAT and Vertice also offers some packs, as the 18 licenses pack at 2490€ EXCL. VAT.

2/ NOVA Server: a very affordable license for Education

NOVA Server has been launched in May 2009 to make it possible to diffuse on the web interactive 3D scenes realized with NOVA Studio with an instant display, without any plug-in or installation of any file, with a multi-browser compatibility, a guaranteed quality of rendering, multi-users and multi-peripherals mode. The price of the NOVA Server license is 5 990€ EXCL. VAT.

NOVA Server also has an Education license, NOVA Server Education, priced at 590€ EXCL. VAT.

3/ NOVA SDK: one version only at a more competitive price

NOVA SDK allows to integrate interactive 3D scenes in your own in-house applications thanks to a clear, open, complete and .Net library. NOVA SDK is sold at 7 990€ EXCL. VAT.

"We wanted to simplify our NOVA range of products and we have put the prices of some products down dramatically in order to give access to our technology to a large number of users ", declared Yann Faure, CEO of Vertice. "Other novelty in our range: the arrival of floating licenses for Nova Studio, for an extra 30%, to answer our clients’ requests. Furthermore, we have made an important effort in offering a free version of Nova Studio, NOVA Studio Express and an Education pricing for NOVA Studio and the NOVA SDK at a very attractive price", added Yann Faure.

VERTICE ANNOUNCES ITS NEW INTERACTIVE 3D ENGINE, NOVA 2010

02/04/2010

Vertice, creator and editor of the NOVA real time 3D engine, presents its new real time 3D engine, NOVA 2010, one of the first DirectX10 interactive 3D engines of the market. NOVA 2010 will surprise with always more ergonomics, graphics performances and opening.






NOVA 2010: REAL TIME 3D FOR ALL

The ergonomics of NOVA Studio, which is its interface, has been completely revised for more simplicity and intuitivity. One can from now on change the textures on the fly, select colors with a dynamic chromatic wheel, visualize the lights and the cameras of the scene while being able to duplicate them, move them or create some on the fly, to change the focal distance, to capture screenshots of the scene in preset formats, to restore the position of a camera…. The enrichment of the Design mode also makes it possible to directly design a scene from scratch in Nova Studio. Nova 2010 also offers new import formats from 3D software: NOVA 2010 opens from now on formats as FBX, DXF, OBJ and 3DS in addition to DAE and X formats. NOVA 2010 also manages the customized importers in the form of plugins.

AN INTERACTIVE 3D ENGINE IN FULL DIRECTX 10

The move of NOVA 2010 to DirectX 10 allows the support of the 4.0 shaders, which improves the visual performances and quality while allowing to have access to new graphic options. The use of the 4.0 shaders brings in particular more speed for the shadows, the particles, the bones and allows to get high-resolution textures. NOVA 2010 preserves nevertheless a full compatibility with DirectX 9.

In terms of performances and compatibility, Nova 2010 manages DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for the Nova Web Player. It also brings a full support of the 64 bits with a unified installer for all the versions of Nova and the support 3ds Max 2011 and Revit 2011. It also offers an extension of the Nova Web Player to IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. Vertice also implemented in NOVA 2010 a new version of its Vortex Physics engine: new system of interactions between physical objects and animated objects, support of the multithreading, new algorithm of contacts for a largely improved stability, support of the gravitational and repulsive fields of attraction.

The important improvements of NOVA 2010 on a graphics point of view are:

  • Vertice has fully redesigned it real time shadows engine to bring more precision and simplicity in the settings. It is also more powerful and adds the supports of the real soft shadows. 
  • New post-process effects: blur, motion blur, depth of field.
  • Ambient Occlusion: allows to give more realism to the scenes by a system of attenuation of the lights and shadows.
NOVA 2010 also offers three new functionalities that need to be underlined:
 
  • The multi-touch mode, to be used on multi-touch touchscreens as well as on the Microsoft Surface Table.
  • The compatibility with the NVIDIA 3D Vision stereoscopy technology which allows to visualize scenes in 3D and the possibility to display simultaneously a scene several screens (horizontal split, vertical split, sterescopy, multi-cameras).
  • Possibility to define webcams as sources of textures.
 
“NOVA 2010 will surprise many by its ergonomics pushed to the extreme", declared Yann Faure, director of Vertice. “Vertice knows that a tool, however powerful it can be, does not make everything if the users do not manage to use it intuitively and do not find the required functionalities." he added.

 

Laval Virtual, April 7 to 9

18/03/2010

Vertice will demonstrate (Stand J3) its new engine, Nova 2010 at Laval Virtual 2009 (April 7 to 9). 

The Vertice stand will host a table surface, very didactical and interactive element, allowing to show the multi-touch mode of the NOVA real time 3D engine, enabling to move around the scene and interact with the elements with the fingers.

Vertice has decided to synchronize its presence at Laval Virtual with the official announcement of it new real time 3D engine, NOVA 2010, which offers even more graphics possibilities and functionalities to the users.

Vertice announces 4 more major novelties of this engine, after having disclosed the first eight previously (Physics engine, post-process effect, multi-touch support, etc):

• Possibility to define some webcams as source of textures.
• Ambient Occlusion: to give even more realism to the scenes by a system of attenuation of the lights and shadows.
• Completely revised ergonomics of Nova Studio: more easiness and intuitivity.
• Full support of the 64 bits with a single installer for all the versions of NOVA and with support of 3ds max 2011 and of Revit 2011.
 

Vertice unveils a little bit more about its new NOVA 2010 REAL TIME 3D ENGINE

11/03/2010

Vertice, creator and editor of the real-time 3D engine NOVA, unveils 4 new functionalities of its new NOVA 2010 real time 3D engine which will be officially announced at Laval Virtual (April 7 to 11).

NOVA 2010 will bring even greater graphic possibilities and will offer even more functionalities to the users. Vertice presents 4 major novelties:

  • Support of the multi-touch: NOVA 2010 allows to navigate in multi-touch mode (with the fingers) on a touch screen
  • Possibility to display a scene on several screens simultaneously (horizontal split, vertical split, stereoscopic, multi-cameras) and compatibility with the NVIDIA 3D Vision technology (stereoscopic 3D glasses)
  • New physical engine: new system of interactions between physical objects and animated objects, support of the multithreading, new algorithm of contacts for a much better stability, support of the gravitational and repulsive fields of attraction
  • New post-process effects: Blur, Motion Blur (only with DirectX 10), depth of field
Here is a reminder of the functionnalities previously announced in the Imagina Press Release:
  • Support of DirectX 10 with support of the shaders 4.0: the move to DirectX 10 (Nova keeping a full compatibility with DirectX9) offers an improvement of the performances and of its visual qualities while giving access to new graphic options. The use of the shaders 4.0 allows in particular more speed for the shadows, the particles, the bones and to get high-resolution textures.
  • New real-time shadows engine: this new engine was completely redesigned to bring more precision and more simplicity when setting up. It is also more powerful and adds the support of the true soft shadows.
  • Extension of Nova Web Player to IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. The installation of the plugin was simplified and the Nova Web Player now runs under DirectX 9 and DirectX 10.
  • New import formats issued from 3D softwares: NOVA 2010 opens from now FBX, DXF, OBJ and 3DS formats in addition to DAE and. X formats. NOVA 2010 also manages the customized importers as plugins.
More info on: www.vertice.fr

PRESS CONTACTS
Actual Public Relations Agency
Pascale Desmaele / Cynthia-Laure Etom
Tel.: +33 (0)1 41 10 41 12 / +33 (0)1 41 10 41 15
 

Microsoft Technology Center and Windows Cafe: accessible to everyone thanks to Nova

25/02/2010

Vertice, creator and editor of the NOVA real-time 3D engine, has produced for Microsoft company two ultra-realistic virtual models allowing to visualize in real-time, whenever, with or without plug-in, the Microsoft Technology Center and the Windows Cafe.

The virtual model of the computers room of the Microsoft Technology Center was produced with Nova Server, the first technology of 3D real-time visualization in the world allowing any user to navigate in any virtual 3D model directly from the Web, whatever his computer configuration. Vertice modeled the computers room, thus showing the importance of Data Center from the MTC on the Microsoft Campus, buildt in partnership with APC by Schneider. This interactive visit is not a simple 3D visit but a really new dynamic and connected environment in which one can really feel the environment without facing the noise nor the cold of the real environment. The model is visible under various formats (Web 2.0, Silverlight…) with or without plug-in.

Vertice also produced the virtual model of Windows Café, the 3D model of the Parisian coffee which has opened at the time of the presentation of Windows 7 at the end of 2009. Vertice completely modeled the coffee so that it could be visualized with the new multi-touch functionalities of Windows 7.

The NOVA real-time engine of Vertice is not a tool of creation and visualization of real-time 3D like the others. It offers:
- More productivity
- An assisted system to create interactions
- A great quality of rendering
- An optimized and powerful rendering
- Possibilities of development without limits
- A generated format file which shareable and without any need of installation of a software

Vertice was given for mission of democratizing the use of the 3D real-time so that everyone can use it in its everyday life, at work as at home, through the Web.

PRESS CONTACTS
Actual Public Relations Agency
Pascale Desmaele / Cynthia-Laure Etom
Tél : +33 (0)1 41 10 41 12 / +33 (0)1 41 10 41 15
 




 

 

VERTICE ANNOUNCES ITS NEW INTERACTIVE 3D ENGINE, NOVA 2010

02/02/2010

Vertice presents its new real time 3D engine, NOVA 2010, one of the first DirectX10 interactive 3D engines of the market. NOVA 2010 will surprise with always more ergonomics, graphics performances and opening.

NOVA 2010: REAL TIME 3D FOR ALL

The ergonomics of NOVA Studio, which is its interface, has been completely revised for more simplicity and intuitivity. One can from now on change the textures on the fly, select colors with a dynamic chromatic wheel, visualize the lights and the cameras of the scene while being able to duplicate them, move them or create some on the fly, to change the focal distance, to capture screenshots of the scene in preset formats, to restore the position of a camera…. The enrichment of the Design mode also makes it possible to directly design a scene from scratch in Nova Studio. Nova 2010 also offers new import formats from 3D software: NOVA 2010 opens from now on formats as FBX, DXF, OBJ and 3DS in addition to DAE and X formats. NOVA 2010 also manages the customized importers in the form of plugins.

AN INTERACTIVE 3D ENGINE IN FULL DIRECTX 10

The move of NOVA 2010 to DirectX 10 allows the support of the 4.0 shaders, which improves the visual performances and quality while allowing to have access to new graphic options. The use of the 4.0 shaders brings in particular more speed for the shadows, the particles, the bones and allows to get high-resolution textures. NOVA 2010 preserves nevertheless a full compatibility with DirectX 9.

In terms of performances and compatibility, Nova 2010 manages DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for the Nova Web Player. It also brings a full support of the 64 bits with a unified installer for all the versions of Nova and the support 3ds Max 2011 and Revit 2011. It also offers an extension of the Nova Web Player to IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. Vertice also implemented in NOVA 2010 a new version of its Vortex Physics engine: new system of interactions between physical objects and animated objects, support of the multithreading, new algorithm of contacts for a largely improved stability, support of the gravitational and repulsive fields of attraction.

The important improvements of NOVA 2010 on a graphics point of view are:

  • Vertice has fully redesigned it real time shadows engine to bring more precision and simplicity in the settings. It is also more powerful and adds the supports of the real soft shadows. 
  • New post-process effects: blur, motion blur, depth of field.
  • Ambient Occlusion: allows to give more realism to the scenes by a system of attenuation of the lights and shadows.


NOVA 2010 also offers three new functionalities that need to be underlined: 

  • The multi-touch mode, to be used on multi-touch touchscreens as well as on the Microsoft Surface Table.
  • The compatibility with the NVIDIA 3D Vision stereoscopy technology which allows to visualize scenes in 3D and the possibility to display simultaneously a scene several screens (horizontal split, vertical split, sterescopy, multi-cameras).
  • Possibility to define webcams as sources of textures.
“NOVA 2010 will surprise many by its ergonomics pushed to the extreme", declared Yann Faure, director of Vertice. “Vertice knows that a tool, however powerful it can be, does not make everything if the users do not manage to use it intuitively and do not find the required functionalities." he added.

 

Imagina 2010

21/01/2010

Vertice, creator and editor of the real-time 3D engine NOVA, takes the opportunity of its participation to Imagina which is held in Monaco from February 3 to 5, 2010 to unveil NOVA 2010, its new real-time 3D engine. (Stand I27)

NOVA 2010 will bring even greater graphic possibilities and will offer even more functionalities to the users. During Imagina, some members of Vertice will make demonstrations emphasizing some major innovations, among which:
  • Support of DirectX 10 with support of the shaders 4.0: the move to DirectX 10 (Nova keeping a full compatibility with DirectX9) offers an improvement of the performances and of its visual qualities while giving access to new graphic options. The use of the shaders 4.0 allows in particular more speed for the shadows, the particles, the bones and to get high-resolution textures.
  • New real-time shadows engine: this new engine was completely redesigned to bring more precision and more simplicity when setting up. It is also more powerful and adds the support of the true soft shadows.
  • Extension of Nova Web Player to IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. The installation of the plugin was simplified and the Nova Web Player now runs under DirectX 9 and DirectX 10.
  • New import formats issued from 3D softwares: NOVA 2010 opens from now FBX, DXF, OBJ and 3DS formats in addition to DAE and. X formats. NOVA 2010 also manages the customized importers as plugins.

NOVA 2010 will be officially available at the beginning of April, at the time of the Laval Virtual.

For any request for interviews and demonstrations at Imagina, contact Actual Public Relations Agency - Laetitia d'Urso - email: laetitia@actual.fr - Tel. +33 (0)1 41 10 41 16.

Vertice will demonstrate Nova at Autodesk University in Las Vegas

24/11/2009



Vertice announces that it will demonstrate its real time 3D solutions at Autodesk University 2009, the international event gathering the Autodesk ecosystem, event which will happen in Las Vegas – United States of America.

Vertice, represented by Sebastien Callens, Sales & Marketing Manager, will be present at Autodesk University 2009 from December & to 3 2009. This event, with multi-level classes and hands-on labs organized in 18 discipline-specific tracks, covers the uses and benefits of Autodesk and Autodesk partners Solutions in a professional environment.

The NOVA for 3ds Max, NOVA for Revit and Nova Server solutions will be demonstrated to the attendees on Vertice booth (T10). This is an opportunity for Vertice to discuss with the Autodesk solutions users and to present its real time 3D solutions and their different professional uses.

Exhibit hours are:
Tuesday, December 1, 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. (International Community Reception)
Wednesday, December 2, 11:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. (AUGI Beer Bust)
Thursday, December 3, 11:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

See you there!