Visual scenes can be assembled through code, but this is often an extremely
tedious process involving a great deal of trial and error. Gaia allows
you to visually build a scene by placing and moving elements saved out
from 3DS Max, Muon, and Luna. In addition, you can examine and edit
the properties of these elements, including names, materials, textures,
and animated textures. These elements can be wrapped into more powerful
constructs provided by the scene graph level of the Apex SDK, such as
ApexGroup, ApexLOD, and ApexActor. Throughout the process of building
the scene, statistics such as the texture memory usage, numbers of objects,
lights, and textures, and the frame rate at various viewpoints can help
you analyze the complexity of the scene and make changes early in the
pipeline. Once completed, the entire scene can be saved out in optimized
binary formats for easy loading into your Apex based applications
Features:
- The ability to load and save APX, APEX, and ASD binary formats
for geometry, lights, animations, particle effects, etc.
- Apex high-level constructs (Objects, Actors, LODs, Switch nodes,
Groups, etc.)
- Materials, textures, animated textures, names, and other properties
of objects
- Visually build a scene by moving and placing objects loaded or
created
- Create, place, and modify lights in the scene
- Gather statistics about the scene, such as frame rate, texture
memory usage, number of objects, lights, textures, etc.
