World Up? is a complete software development and delivery environment for building 3D/VR applications. Building upon the foundation of EAI's award-winning WorldToolKit?, the industry's most widely used visual simulation software development toolkit, World Up provides powerful real-time functionality in an interactive, object-oriented environment.

World Up applies the concepts of real-time and interactivity from application concept to completion. Users see the effects of changing design parameters in real-time; the effects of modifying object behaviors or properties (such as movement or translation) can be seen while your simulation is running. This allows users to substantially reduce development costs and time-to-market.

World Up provides a highly object-oriented environment designed to speed application development. An extendible object hierarchy contains predefined properties and methods that can be accessed via the development interface or through the Visual Basic-style scripting language. The World Up development environment also includes a script debugger and a performance profiler to optimize performance, as well as a complete suite of tools including an integrated modeler, content delivery mechanisms and Internet support.

The fully integrated World Up Modeler renders objects exactly as they are designed to appear in the simulation. Real-time geometric modeling features include seamless editing and extrusion of geometry, presentation of multiple views, merging of co-planar polygons and the ability to render both sides of the polygon.

World Up offers several content delivery options for commercial use including stand alone players, Plug-in players and ActiveX players. The addition of the World Up Player also provides non-commercial users a stand-alone delivery option to freely distribute content to a large audience. World Up's ActiveX control builds on Microsoft's latest technology, allowing users to embed real-time 3D applications into PowerPoint and most OLE aware applications, such as Internet Explorer and the Microsoft Office Suite.

Support for the Internet
Available for both OpenGL and Direct3D, the World Up Player has Plug-in capabilities for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. World Up's Plug-in allows for distribution and viewing of 3D content over the Internet. VRML files can also be downloaded for incorporation into World Up applications.

Flexible and Open
World Up supports industry standards including OpenGL, D and Visual Basic syntax to provide users with immediate productivity and optimal flexibility. World Up also supports VRML, 3DS, DXF and FLT file formats, and a variety of operating systems, to allow for cross-platform portability without the need to recompile.