What’s New
in TerraExplorer® v5.1
The new release of the TerraExplorer marks major
improvements in the capabilities for manipulating terrain, bringing in models
and feature data and creating special effects within TerraExplorer Pro.
Table of Contents
1. Underground Navigation. 3
2. Terrain Opacity. 3
3. Modify Terrain. 4
4. Hole on Terrain. 5
5. Import Sketchup Collada Models 6
6. TerraGate Streaming Feature Server (SFS)
Import Support 8
7. Imagery layer improvements 8
8. Hyper-Link Multiple Files to a Single
Object 9
9. Geo-Referenced Popup Windows 10
10. Atmospheric Effects 10
11. Installation Flexibility. 11
12. Object enhancements 12
The underground navigation mode allows you to explore the
subsurface of the terrain. You can navigate under the terrain’s surface and
through buildings. A subsurface grid navigation aid appears when you navigate
below the terrain, allowing you to navigate the same way as above ground.
Navigating in Underground
Mode
You can set the opacity of the terrain in the 3D View. The
opacity is defined as a percentage, where 100% is opaque and 0% is transparent.
When the opacity is other than 100% (opaque) objects that are submerged in the
terrain become visible through it.
Terrain Objects with
Controlled Terrain Opacity
The Modify Terrain tool changes the elevation values of the
terrain based on a polygon. The surface of the terrain is raised or lowered
according to the elevation values of the polygon's points. Different elevation
behaviors allow replacing, croping above or cropping below the original values
of the terrain. The interior of the polygon can be flat or irregular in shape.
Hole in
Terrain
Hole on Terrain cuts holes in the terrain based on a polygon
that exposes the other side of the terrain through the opening.
Modify Terrain
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Load 3D models in
Collada (Sketchup) format.
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Loads and streams
layers from a TerraGate Streaming Feature Server (SFS).
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The TerraGate SFS manages
and streams layers of features, including vectors, polygons and points stored
in different formats. The Feature Server can serve out data from one machine (or
more) to a large number of users while generating optimized cache files.
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Uses data from local
MPT or remote TerraGate servers as imagery layers
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Read imagery data
from ArcSDE servers
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Support secured (HTTPS)
servers
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Links multiple
documents to a single object
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A Links message
displays links to multiple documents or files. You can organize the hyperlinks
into categories like pictures, videos and text
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You can activate a
hyperlink to launch the appropriate file viewer based on file association. For
example, a *.doc hyperlink launches the Microsoft Word application (if
installed) and displays the document’s content. For security reasons, the file
is opened in an HTML browser. If the browser supports this file type (i.e., BMP
file), it appears in the selected container. If the browser does not support
this file type or there are security restrictions, the browser displays the
appropriate error or warning message.
Hyper-Link Multiple
Files to a Single Object
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TerraExplorer can
draw an arrow from an object in the 3D world to a pop-up window when the user
assigns a message window to an object.
The Atmospheric Effects sets
the appearance of the atmosphere in the 3D Window. You can control the horizon
distance, fog color, as well as, the sun and moon display.
The sun, moon and sun flare
objects can be displayed and positioned based on a given date, time and time
zone.
You can also display
atmospheric effects such as fog and visibility distance.
Atmospheric Effects
Allow non-administrative and restricted users to install and
use TerraExplorer and TerraExplorer Pro applications on Windows XP and Vista operating systems.
- Smoothing effect (Spline) for lines and polygons.
- Control the double-side/single-side rendering setting for
3D models.
Spline for Lines and Polygons