When the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) wanted to show how IntelliDrive would work in real-world driving conditions, showing the future of car safety and technology, they turned to Parsons Brinckerhoff Project Visualization, a Denver-based visual communication services company. The PB team faced a tight budget and a short 4-month development cycle and looked no further than UDK to meet its visualization needs. “Due to the incredibly short turnaround, UDK was immediately attractive because of how well it fit with our modeling pipeline for AEC visualizations,” said Tom Shannon, senior visualization specialist at PB Project Visualization. “The Lightmass system in UDK allowed us to achieve very high quality graphics in a very short period of time, enabling us to concentrate on the script and level design.”
Four months later, the team had put together a polished demo for users to see how IntelliDrive worked from behind the wheel. It’s a simulation that would look at home in any best-selling racing game today, however it was created by the Michigan Department of Transportation and a visualization studio in a matter of months.
Check out how the power of Unreal Engine 3 empowered this team to create a true-life community to test road conditions in suburban communities and calculate the effects of bad weather on the UDK Forum or on their YouTube Channel.
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