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Game Engine and GIS research

Discussion in 'Community Learning & Teaching' started by aswinindra, Nov 14, 2007.

  1. aswinindra

    aswinindra

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    I initially begin my research about incorporating GIS spatial data into game engine. I use Unity as visual interface.I suspect there must be a way (script) to connect from GIS database (3D attribute, parameter) into Unity schene.
    Is there anyone experience with this issue?
     
  2. Eric5h5

    Eric5h5

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    You can certainly read external files and construct 3D objects from the data using the mesh scripting interface in Unity. As I understand it, GIS is a lot of different formats, so you'd probably want to concentrate on just one.

    --Eric
     
  3. bigkahuna

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