Press Release

CMLABS ANNOUNCES VORTEX FOR VEGA PRIME V2.3

New release facilitates workflow with Vega Prime™ and adds features designed for greater interactivity.

Montreal, Quebec – September 29, 2004 — CMLabs, developers of Vortex, the most widely used physics engine for the visualization and simulation community, is pleased to announce the availability of v2.3 Vortex for Vega Prime. This release incorporates enhanced features designed to facilitate the workflow with Vega Prime™ as well as features designed for greater interactivity. This version is compatible with the latest release of Vega Prime v1.2.x.

The following list highlights the important changes:

• integration with LynX Prime™ dramatically reduces programming effort: Models and entire simulations can be created and optimized via the graphical user interface.
• prototyping made possible with support for keyboard-control in the LynX Prime display window.
• terrain collision model provides deeper integration with Vega Prime, as well as improved vehicle behavior.
• motion blending made possible with full interactivity between animated or user-controlled objects and dynamically simulated objects.
• can select from multiple configurations that will solve for speed versus accuracy, to gain greater control over the fidelity of the application.

"This new release greatly enhances the integration and workflow with Vega Prime" says Marek Teichmann, CTO of CMLabs. "The new LynX Prime interface and the capability to prototype simulations in the preview window makes it much easier and faster to build interactive applications with Vortex physics."

"Utilizing advanced physics within a realtime3D application can be extremely difficult to accomplish" said Chris Henderson, Director, Engineering. "The integrated Vortex for Vega Prime module provides an interface and feature set ideally suited to the quick and easy generation of accurate physics-based collision within a high performance realtime 3D simulation application."

About CMLabs
CMLabs is the leading service provider specializing in physics-based behavior modeling for 3D simulations. The core development tool, Vortex, is a comprehensive COTS simulation engine used to model accurate motion and interactive behaviors for real-time applications involving heavy vehicles, industrial equipment, robotics and more. For more information, visit www.cm-labs.com or contact Heather Black heatherb@cm-labs.com.