3D HMI Framework Development

Requirement

Design and develop 3D HMI Framework to render 3-Dimensional animated User Interfaces and also handle a series of events and state management.

System Overview

A 3D model will be designed in tools like 3DS Max, Maya or Softimage which will be exported as a 3D data. This 3D data is an input to the Designer and Preview tool.

The “HMI designer & preview tool” will allow UI designer to prepare and preview the User Interface, associate properties, animations and states to the objects in a scene. Once completed the output file is saved as a HMI data which is an input to the 3D HMI SDK.

The “Embitel’s 3D HMI SDK” will expose API’s to parse, render & animate the objects on a device. A device dependent application will be developed to perform the actual HMI interfacing with the SDK. 

Implementation

Plug-in

• Exports the Objects information which are created in 3DS Max, Maya, Softimage etc

Authoring & preview tool :

• Objects are arranged and assigned properties, events, animation, characteristics
• The display arrangement of the actual UI

HMI SDK:

• Rendering module
• Animation module
• Morphing & Transformation
• State machine module
• Parsing module
• OpenGL- ES based rendering

Application

• Events & OS abstraction
• Interface to SDK

Testing and Validation

• Standard QA practices were followed to ensure quality of deliverables
• Standard Testing practices including Unit testing, Function testing, System testing etc

Tools

• Plug-in : C++
• Authoring & Preview tool : VC++, HMI SDK
• HMI SDK: C++
• Application : OS dependent (Depending upon the OS of the embedded device)
• CM : SVN