Applications

Together with Quantum3D’s Image Generators and geo-specific databases, Mantis® offers advanced visual simulation solutions for various applications, such as Fixed- and Rotary-Wing Flight Simulation, Ground vehicle simulation, Mission Rehearsal, Sensor simulation, etc.

Base Features

• Special Effects – Includes vapor trails, sparks, dust, smoke, explosions, noise, dead pixels, etc.
• Flexible Host Interface – Supports CIGI 2.0, 3.0 and 3.2
• Environmental Support – Weather effects, such as precipitation, fog, haze, dust, and the sun’s positioning, are easily configurable on Mantis®
• Terrain Database Support – Supports for complete world wide database with seamless flight across entire earth.
• Moving Model Support – Supports full 6-DOF position and rate control; Articulations, toggles, and animation scripts
• Mission Function Support – Mantis® allows clamping and conforming of models to the terrain, line-of-sight intersection testing, height-above-terrain queries, height-of-terrain queries, and laser range queries
• Scene Load Management – By specifying tradeoffs, the user can maintain a specified frame rate for particular applications
• Advanced Rendering – Highly optimized rendering architecture for fast GPU performance
• Open Standards – Windows®, OpenGL API, C++, object-oriented architecture, CIGI host interface, OpenFlight® models and TerraPage® terrains
• Easy Configuration – using the familiar Windows® user interface
• Flexible Platform Support - Supported on IDX Image Generators and off-the-shelf PCs (contact Quantum3D for supported PC hardware)

Plug-Ins Features

Quantum3D's advanced plug-ins for Mantis provide additional visual enhancements to meet the most demandig simulation and trainng needs:

	Advanced Ocean Plug-In Uses shaders to generate a high quality ocean, which includes sun / moon reflection, true 3D waves, shoreline effect, terrain and model reflections. Supports bow and stern wakes for moving vessels. Supports spray effects for moving vessels. Renders inland water such as lakes and rivers using a shader to simulate ripples and reflections, including reflection of sun or moon. Works for both visual band and sensor simulations.
	Advanced Weather Plug-In Renders a three dimensional volumetric cloud layer. Provides accurate method for specifying arbitrary shaped regions of dense cloud, broken cloud and clear sky. Renders up to five volumetric storm clouds with associated rain squall and randomized lightning. Volumetric cloud LOS intersection queries facilitate accurate simulation of judder on penetration of clouds. Provides layered fog effect. Fog density is interpolated based on altitude. Accurate cloud shadows can be cast on terrain, ocean and moving models. Accurate and realistic in cloud effects. Clouds are illuminated by sun, moon, lightning, spotlights, city light glow. City light glow illuminates both cloud and terrain. Night time texturing of lights in urban areas
	RunwayFX Plug-In Facilitates simulation of effects such as wet, patchy wet, ice, patchy ice, snow, patchy snow, sand / dust, patchy sand / dust, blowing snow / sand / dust. Supports reflection of runway lights on wet regions of runway. Runway condition returned in HAT/HOT/LOS queries facillitates accurate simulation when hitting snow or water All parameters can be gradually changed at run-time to simulate changing conditions.
	Real-Time Foliage Plug-In Allows three dimensional high quality foliage to be added to terrain. Allows grass regions to be added to terrain. Uses SpeedTree™ trees. Simulates global wind – all trees are blown. Simulates localised wind such as helicopter rotorwash
	Shadow Plug-In Supports various algorithm’s for generating real-time shadows, including full-scene self-shadowing
	ViXsen® Plug-In Physics-based simulation of sensors. Supports NVG and short / medium / long range infrared sensors. Supports material coded databases. Supports changing diurnal cycle.
	Di-Guy™ Plug-In Uses the Boston Dynamics Di-Guy tools to implement animated humans and animals.
	Rotorwash Plug-In Implements a flexible particle effect to simulate rotorwash effects. Appearance of effect can be made to change automatically dependent upon type of terrain under helicopter, e.g., sand, water, concrete.
	QUEST2 Plug-In (ER) Provides support for sensor post processing effects. QUEST2 uses a software method for post processing. Supports gain, level, AGC, blur, random noise, fixed noise, scintillation, hot spot detection, hot spot contrast estimation, pan roll and zoom, etc.