Volume One 2007

PRODUCT UPDATES

Windows Vista creates new challenges & opportunities for software developers seeking to maximum performance on Vista, Windows XP and other platforms. Read about what's happening with OpenGL and Direct3D, and how HOOPS can help!

Read the Vista Graphics Paper

HOOPS DEMONSTRATION
Gavin Bridgeman, our Director of Product Strategy, will take you through some of the key functionality of our flagship product, the HOOPS 3D Application Framework.

LATEST RELEASE

The recent HOOPS 15.0 release includes a myriad of customer requested features and performance boosts. Some of the new features include: Full Support Of Depth-Peeling, Bi-Linear Color Interpolation, Added language support for C#, Visual Basic & Java, and an integration with the JT Toolkit from UGS.

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CLIENT FOCUS

Synchro's advanced 4D tools significantly streamline the management of complex construction projections. HOOPS helped them significantly streamline their visualization as well.

PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

Code less. Create More.

Trolltech's Qt development framework is a popular choice of HOOPS customers. Qt is a comprehensive development framework that includes an extensive array of features, capabilities and tools that enable development of high-performance, cross-platform rich-client and server-side applications. Qt can help software developers deliver applications with a native “look-and-feel” on various platforms (including different flavors of Windows such as XP and Vista). With so many developers using HOOPS and Qt together, both companies work closely to ensure that these tools work seamlessly.


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MEET THE TEAM

Ken Royall
Director, European Sales

Ken has been involved with 3D graphics applications development for over 25 years and has recently undertaken the position of heading TS3D's new European Sales & Consulting office.

Find out more about Ken

TS3D adds European Sales & Consulting Office

SURVEY WINNER

Congratulations are in order for Mike Kelley of EMSS in South Africa. He is the winner of the File Format Survey drawing and received an iPOD from Tech Soft 3D.

PROGRAMMERS' NOTES

Technical Article

Using the HIOManager and HIO Plugins

HOOPS/MVO includes a class called HIOManager, which manages all file input and output modules. By using this File I/O manager you can simply pass any file reading to HBaseModel::Read and it will use the I/O manager to automatically detect and load the appropriate I/O module. The input/output handlers used for a given filetype are determined primarily by the file extension.

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