A little-known feature of the Triton Ocean SDK is its ability to simulate tidal streams, also known as eddies. These are like stationary wakes on fixed objects like bouys, that result from water flowing around them. Triton offers the TidalStreamWake...
Frank Kane
Frank Kane is the founder and CEO of Sundog Software, LLC, and previously worked at IMDb, Amazon, Sierra Online, Looking Glass Studios, and SDS Int'l.
I just closed the books on 2015, and it was another record year for Sundog Software: net income (profit, after taxes) was up over 20% compared to 2014, making 2015 our best year ever on both the top and bottom...
Sometimes, users want things like airplane landing lights to illuminate SilverLining’s clouds as you fly through them at night. A few customers have done this on their own by using SilverLining’s extensible shader framework. Recently, we had to do this...
In case you missed it- we’ve previously published the best things you can do to maximize SilverLining‘s performance. Those tips can make a big difference! As we continue to work with customers obsessed with their frame-rates, we’ve uncovered a couple...
Many of our customers struggle with depth buffer resolution issues, due to the massive scenes they must represent in training and simulation systems. 2015 seems to have been the year of the logarithmic depth buffer, but going into 2016 we’re...
I/ITSEC 2015 is over, and the show was almost surreal for Sundog. Every year we see our SilverLining and Triton technology showcased at the booths of many of our customers, but this year we were just everywhere. And the visual...
Our Russian friends at Source Side LLC have released the Sevo Engine for iOS! It’s an Objective-C interface to the Ogre3D engine, offering advanced graphics, physics, and sound capabilities for iPhone, iPad, and iPod. What excites us is that it...
I’m at the I/ITSEC conference in Orlando this week, which is the premier training and simulation technology conference in the US. And, I’m seeing lots of our customers displaying visual systems that feature SilverLining and Triton! If you’re at the...
As 2015 draws to a close, now may be a good time to check with your manager about any extra budget money for technology purchases. Large companies often set aside a fixed amount of money for software purchases, and often...
We’ve decided to discontinue our Triton and SilverLining packages in the Unity asset store. If you already own Triton or SilverLining for Unity – don’t panic! Although they will be labeled as “deprecated” in Unity, existing customers are free to...