OGRE-coder: An interoperable environment for the automatic generation of OGRE virtual scenarios

Abstract

Currently, there are several languages and tools that enable the creation of virtual scenarios. However, existing approaches are not intuitive and require a thorough knowledge of the user. The work presented in this paper aims at addressing this gap by the development of an intuitive framework for the creation of OGRE virtual scenarios with high graphical quality, customized multimedia presentations and supporting the distributed navigation and use of collaborative communication tools, such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), chat, etc. The proposed framework relies on the utilization of a generic metadata for the description of virtual scenarios which can be applied by different tools for authoring, and which can facilitate the subsequent automatic generation of OGRE code. With this approach OGRE developers can focus on the codification of the dynamics and strategies of the application being developed which helps reducing considerably the development time of these applications. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.