This is an exciting and emerging technology which offers a real alternative to slower 3D rendering systems. Using our 3D modelling skills, we produce models from our own designs, or from your designers' or architects' drawings and import them into Reality4D (R4D). This software, which we were involved in developing, allows us navigate around the model in realtime, placing the camera and marking specific viewpoints. These are then combined by the software into smooth-running "journeys", which can be viewed in realtime or exported as videos, like the examples you can see here.

Using these techniques we can produce anything from a fly-over of several square kilometres to a tour of a building, taking in landscapes, large-scale design and engineering works through to the detail of how you might navigate a proposed building.



Animated objects can include vehicles and wind turbines. The technology can be used to demonstrate any existing or designed environment, from parks, residential, commercial or industrial sites, to highway, power and infrastructure projects.

Some of the features which set this service apart from rendered videos:-

• Journeys/tours: can be set up in a matter of minutes and saved - no need to wait another day for the video sequence to render!
• Create and save defined viewpoints anywhere in the environment and jump to them at any time.
• Save screenshots for any view.
• Perspective / Plan View: switch between perspective and plan view with just one keypress.

Usage    

It may be apparent from the above that we have developed the system with Public Exhibitions and Inquiries in mind.

However, we also believe that this technology has great benefits in scheme design and assessment. For example, we can observe and assess moving vehicles or wind-turbines from any viewpoint. Architects and developers will particularly appreciate the ability to walk through the design before it is built - your understanding of the design will be changed!

Aerial view over the highway and terrain

Detail of an enclosed garden with pergola

Entrance to an industrial estate showing new features and planting

Overview of Wincolmlee Industrial Estate, Hull