Develop 08

Thanks to everyone who met us at Develop 08, the show was a great success for Simul!

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Screenshot in Edge Magazine

Edge Magazine published a screenshot we made for them, it’s in the August 2008 issue, number 191, on page 159.

Crain’s Manchester Business

Crain’s Manchester Business, the weekly business newspaper, has an excellent article on Simul and the Clouds SDK.

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Seeking bug reports

We need your help – we want to know how compatible our demo is. I’d like to hear from anyone who can’t get the demo to work, particularly if you have an ATI card. It should work with any shader model 3 card or above. Contact us at support@simul.co.uk.

Announcing Simul Sky

We’re licensing our atmospherics system Simul Sky individually, as well as in a bundle with Clouds. Sky is a pretty nifty bit of software – you set the time, date, part of the world you’re in, and it first calculates where the sun is in the sky, and second, calculates the physically-correct sky colours. Where Sky really excels is at twilight, sunrise and sunset. Most scattering algorithms turn the whole sky yellow when the sun is low in the sky or below the horizon. Simul Sky gets it right. What’s also really cool about it is the number of calculations it takes to get a complete skydome – much fewer than you’d expect! So you can have the whole sky change in real time with minimum fuss.

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CloudWright Special Offer

To celebrate the release of the rather great version 1.4, CloudWright is only $59 until the end of June!

Video

There’s a 3-minute movie of the clouds in motion on the clouds sdk page. As well as the youTube version, you can download the movie in 240p or 480p.

Realtime Clouds Demo

We’ve made a downloadable demo of realtime clouds in HDR: head to the clouds sdk page.

Develop Magazine covers Simul

Our first major press coverage – the April 2008 issue of Develop magazine has half a page on CloudWright and the Clouds SDK. More information and subscriptions from www.developmag.com.

CloudWright Big Changes

CloudWright 1.4 is a major milestone. We’ve made the windows interface much more configurable, we’ve merged the Free Edition with the main program.

But the big difference is we’ve integrated the realtime cloud rendering from the Simul Clouds SDK into CloudWright. This means that when you’re in “Realtime” mode, you can move the camera freely through the sky at a fast framerate. Then you can generate a cubemap from any point in the sky.

We’re replacing the Free Edition with 1.4 from now, and asking for feedback. When it’s good and stable, registered users should upgrade.

You can download it here.