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- Release date: June 20, 2008. Status: Version 0.8 BETA released on-schedule.
- Mission: to enable rapid visualization of and interaction with exoplanet environments.
- User Interface: Visual Studio style working interface.
- Data Source: exoExplorer will retrieve exoplanet data from planetarybiology.com and create exoplanet environments accordingly.
- Perspectives: exoExplorer presents four different animated viewing perspectives: 1) galactic 3D view; 2) star system orthographic view; 3) orbital 3D view; and 4) planetary (or imaginary lunar) surface 3D view.
- Navigation: Travel is performed with user-selected combinations of large and small craft, and large and small wheeled vehicles.
- Navigation Control: DirectInput -- mouse, keyboard, game controller.
- Programming Language: C++. Program development being performed with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
- Supported Platform: Microsoft Windows XP.
- Libraries: Ogre3d, Newton Game Dynamics (OgreNewt), Object-oriented Input System (OIS), Caelum, OpenAL.
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