OsgVortex

Copyright VRlab Umeå Sweden

Update 2005.

OsgVortex is now depricated and is replaced by the Colosseum3D framework.

In short

OsgVortex is a simulation framework for autoring interactive 3D simulations with 3D Sound, rigid body physics, scripting (using Lua).
The toolkit is based upon OpenSceneGraph (as the very foundation and scenegraph) and Vortex (Critical Mass Labs) (for physical simulation and collision detection).

OsgVortex is a three layer toolkit:

• a file format layer in which a simulation state can be described. One reason for using a specified fileformat is to make sure the input is valid and given in the right order.
• C++ API by which applications can be developed.
• Lua scripting layer where different modules are compiled into separate dynamic libraries which can be loaded/unloaded at run-time.

Each of these layers is enough to create some kind of content with 3D Sound, graphics etc, combined they make it possible to generate rich environments with collision triggers, mouse/keyboard interaction...

Documentation

Article submitted to IEEE VR2004 Conference about the framework and the interaction methods developed titled

"Framework for authoring dynamic simulations using rigid-body dynamics"

A really OLD user manual for osgVortex (Its not new, its old).

Platforms

Dependencies

OsgVortex depends on the following toolkits:

OpenSceneGraph - An open-source scenegraph C++ toolkit that handles all the rendering.
Vortex - A physical simulation toolkit developed by Critical Mass Labs.
CommonC++ - An open-source C++ toolkit for communication, threading.
OpenAL - A portable C API for spatial (3D) sound.
OpenAL++ - C++ layer on top of OpenAL.
Lua - A small, feature rich and fast scripting language suitable for embedding into applications.
Tolua++ - A toolkit for gluing C++ code and Lua together.