3DNature

3D Nature Source Code

This repository contains source code for tools developed by 3D Nature and 3D Nature related tools developed by AlphaPixel that have been released under open source licenses.

The contents are:

Amiga

NatureView

NVWParser

SRTMFill

SuperConductor

WCS-VNS

WCSDEM-Loader

Documentation

Not all of these folders have been populated yet, as we are still obtaining and curating the data necessary for releasing some of these.

Notably, NVWParser, SRTMFill and WCSDEM-Loader are empty as of October 2016.

The most significant folder is the WCS-VNS folder, containing the C++ source to Visual Nature Studio V3.10 as well as its build makefiles and dependent graphic and other data assets. It is intended to be built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. At the time of the development of VNS 3, Visual Studio 2008 was still not regarded as especially stable and reliable and by 2010 when it became stable and VS2010 became available, VNS 3 had already been released.

There are many dependent libraries, both internal (3DNArg, 3DNDEM, etc) and third-party (lifTIFF, libPNG, the FBX SDK, the ECW SDK) which VNS can be compiled to use. We have attempted to remove any code that is available elsewhere and is owned/licensed by other parties, but if some pieces have been overlooked, please file a ticket and we will correct the situation.

Building VNS is not a trivial task, and no definitive guide currently exists for doing so.

Also included in the Amiga folder is the Amiga V2.x World Construction Set code, for history and posterity. This utilizes some external libraries including the nngridr code by David Watson. The copyright and license state of this code (which is not owned by 3D Nature or any related party) is unclear, as it seems to no longer exist in digital form, and the author cannot be contacted. In light of this, these assets are published here for posterity until such time as anyone can clearly show that this is not the correct action.

SuperConductor is included as well, in both the original V1 release as well as the incompletely tested and unreleased V2.

All of the intellectual property contributed here by 3D Nature (assets now owned by AlphaPixel, LLC) is licensed under the OpenSceneGraph Public License (aka OSGPL http://trac.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg//wiki/Legal ), a variant of the GNU LGPL with the wxWidgets extensions to clarify certain aspects that the LGPL left murky as far as commercial use. Any files accidentally included here that belong to other parties are not implied to be owned by 3D Nature/AlphaPixel nor released under the OSGPL.

The text of the OSGPL follows and will be found in a LICENSE.txt file in each top-level folder containing source we are releasing under this license:

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Notes: the OSGPL is based on the LGPL, with the 4 exceptions laid out in the wxWindows section below. The LGPL is contained in the final section of this license.

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