VTP Software: Implementation and Development

The VTP software consists of a set of entirely free and open source applications and libraries.  To use any of the VTP applications or libraries, contribute to the implementation effort, or leverage the existing source code in your own work, please notify and download the VTP distribution.

Applications:

• Enviro - "3D runtime environment"
• VTBuilder - "virtual terrain builder"
• CManager - "content manager"
• older: BExtractor - "building extractor"

See the online documentation.

Libraries:

The applications are built on the following libraries:

Key VTP Application VTP Library Required Library Optional Library

Platforms:

• The main target platforms are Windows and Linux. Mac OS X is a bit more complex; it nearly works.
• Other Unix flavors could be made to work as well.
• All the code is portable or calls portable libraries.

Sections:

• Documentation
• Libraries
• Software Status:
  • Known Bugs and Problems
  • Feature Requests and other Desirable Improvements
  • Changes - Development Log
  • Changes - Release Announcements
• General coding style
• Source control (Hg on Bitbucket)
• Vegetation
• Roads
• File formats: BT, VF, VTST, VTAP, Species, Locations
• Screenshots
• Mouse Navigation
• Porting and running on Unix
• Editing GUIs: Using wxFormBuilder
• Internationalization (i18n)
• just in case anyone is offering to take over the role of putting out the VTP releases, here is a rough guide to the VTP release procedure