OpenFlight
OpenFlight is an industry standard realtime 3D scene description format developed, owned and
maintained by Presagis, Inc. OpenFlight is the most widely used file format for visual simulation databases and is supported by
dozens of vendors of realtime 3D tools. Military visual simulation includes battle simulation, fighter
jet flight simulation, tank simulation. Visual simulation also includes geospecific terrain for
accurate realtime fly through of regions of the planet.
In visual simulation, OpenFlight is the defacto standard format. OpenFlight is also prevalent in
the PC animation and modeling communities for optimizing and tagging 3D data for realtime playback. As
application examples, in the visual simulation industry OpenFlight is the format for entire worlds.
In the entertainment industry it is widely used for level building in realtime games and in
the AES or urban simulation industries it is used to organize and optimize scenes for realtime
walkthroughs.
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