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Today, the utility of a car configurator is well-known: the configurator is an effective tool used in the sales process and helps thCar Configuratore client in faster choosing his preferred configuration, leading him to the proper dealers. It has an important contribution to the marketing policies of manufacturers and dealers world-wide.
3D car configurators are new, and should be built according to some quality rules.This article discloses the goals pursued by the software engineering process of 3DCar(TM), one of the first (probably the very first) fully interactive 3D car configurators, a project started in 2005, at a time when even 2D car configurators were a rarity. 3DCar (TM) was disclosed to public only a few days ago on YouTube!
The software system engineering goals:
  • easy and fast usage (fast application loading, destination based ergonomics criteria, colour changes and 3D options are displayed very fast)
  • stability (the chosen technology is reliable for all the targeted platforms)
  • maximize the interactivity of users with the car (the client establishes a strong bound with the vehicle by directly exploring various features and acting on its interactive parts)3D Car Configurator
  • make itself available on several means of presentation (Internet, CDs/DVDs, local PC application, touch-screens, showroom plasma screens etc)
  • expandability, flexibility (easily add new software modules packed with new features, easy replacing of current modules with improved ones, adding new 3D models as easy (and therefore cheap) as possible)
  • maximize exposure by offering higher performance (for high polygon count) with lower system requirements (the application runs well even on older systems - this is achieved by: 1) optimization of 3D models and code 2) automatic adaptation by dropping of features with high system requirements to keep it running on older systems)
  • interfacing with the existing sales system and also including marketing tools (ability to order, store client preferences, track the sales process, direct advertising areas, "tell a friend" tool etc)

At the time the project was started, technology for browser embedding was pretty unstable, caused significant performance losses and could not sustain the high interactivity of such a complex application.
Other solutions that appeared meanwhile and used various technologies for browser embedding, used to show a lot of Car Configuratorblue-screens and crash the browsers or the whole operating system. 3DCar uses a web-start ability (like some of the Java applications use) for usage with browser. This assures very good performance and allows it to display models consisting of over 1 million triangles even on 5-6 year old PCs.However, new technologies were constantly monitored and finally, a robust and appropriate solution seems to have appeared (more on this in a future article).You can learn more about 3DCar (TM) and see YouTube videos at the 3d car configurator website. Bluemind Software is the authors company and it's mission is to brings it's contribution by means of quality software development and webdesign services, along with developing it's own innovative products, like 3DCar.
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