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The RTT DeltaGen and RTT Portal software solutions from the Munich VR specialist have established themselves as standard tools among developers and designers as well as marketing and sales professionals around the world. Porsche, Lamborghini or Adidas rely on RTT to visualise their products for design and marketing.
With a range of new functionalities, the two software solutions offer not only the highest degree of realistic representation, but also numerous possibilities for process acceleration and workflow efficiency.
DeltaGen 7.0
With the RTT DeltaGen 7.0 software, extremely realistic, real-time-capable high-end visualisations in 3D are possible. The visual highlight of the new version is a new user interface that has been designed intuitively and even more user-friendly. New colour schemes and icons allow users to create 3D models and scenes simply and efficiently. The central innovations include further simplification of processes and data management. The focus here is on “Assembly Handling” (assembly management) as well as direct connection to RTT Portal libraries. The latter innovation allows immediate access to material and object libraries – for example to a wheel-rim database for cars – from RTT DeltaGen to RTT Portal 3.0. “Assembly Handling” makes it possible to divide 3D scenes into assemblies. These assemblies can then be edited simultaneously and independently of one another by different users.
With the highlight RTT RealLight, the Munich company creates convincing innovations in the real-time simulation of shadow effects. These are now calculated more correctly and many times faster. The secret: The effects are independent of the polygon mesh, which enables excellent shadow representation even with coarse tessellation.
Additional Applications and Modules
RTT DeltaGen serves to prepare complex 3D data for real-time visualisation in high-end quality. Alongside geometric preparation, data can also be provided with high-quality visual effects and staged in a real environment. RTT has a range of optional modules and further applications ready for users that offer even more functions. These too were improved as part of the new major version. Thus RTT DeltaView plus (real-time viewer), RTT RealTrace (physically correct real-time visualisation of light reflections and –refractions), RTT Analyzer (geometric real-time analysis) and RTT Powerwall (object visualisation in XXL) can show a range of improvements that accelerate the workflow, facilitate teamwork and make the visualisations look even more real.
RTT Portal 3.0
Design processes are increasingly being handled on the digital level and are thereby also becoming visibly more complex. The server-based software solution RTT Portal 3.0 provides an overview of all design-relevant data and is thus the optimal tool for dealing with complex project data. The new version of the digital asset-management tool is characterised by the following functions: Simplified management of RTT Portal and object libraries offers more efficiency; through the connection to RTT DeltaGen 7.0, users can access their 3D real-time application directly. Another innovation is RTT Portal Mobile. This allows selected content from the RTT Portal to be transferred to a laptop in order to edit it independently of location. On return, the changed content is then automatically synchronised via the RTT Portal server.
