S2TView is a high performance image generator application for real-time 3D simulation that is written on top of OpenSceneGraph, an open source high performance 3D graphics toolkit.

S2TView is capable of generating photo-realistic visual scenes of real world locations.

S2TView runs on Windows XP and Vista PC platforms.

Features:

• Realistic Atmospheric effects - Real time 3D, lit clouds
• Rendering of the sky for any simulated time and location
• Accurate ephemeris and rendering for sun, moon and stars
• Physically simulated rain and snow effects
• Thunderstorm and lightning conditions
• Large Area Database – supports database paging
• Moving Models & Special Effects - supports hundreds of moving objects, articulated parts, multiple Level of Details and special effects
• 2D Overlays – bitmap, text, lines presented over the terrain.
• Colour filtering – post process the frame buffer via OpenGL
• Shading language
• Database interoperability – via the import and export of terrain in such industry standards as OpenFlight
• HLA compliance
• Dead Reckoning – perform on the entities based on the previous locations
• Flight control via joystick and keyboard.
• Mission functions – Height above terrain, locking on onto a moving entity or a 3D point in the terrain