Techniques for game engine based virtual museum.

摘要

Game technologies have been used recently for edutainment and 3D visualization. Modern game engines support advanced 3D graphics, and provide a better platform to develop 3D applications. Virtual Museum is one such application which can be developed rapidly at low cost using 3D game engines. There are areas of enhancement for current Virtual Museum creation technologies. To maximize the output of the visit in a Virtual Museum, it can be made more interactive and affective by applying techniques of taking user preferences for suggestion of further exhibitions.;In our approach to the design of Virtual Museum, we use the customizable game engine Torque Game Engine Advanced (TGEA). We integrate a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine, SQLite, into TGEA in order to create a Virtual Museum designing tool. This tool can be used by museum curators to create a Virtual Museum. The Virtual Museum has the ability to take a visitor's preferences, and to suggest the visitor further exhibitions. This system is developed using C++ and Torque Script, the scripting language of TGEA. TGEA's capabilities have been increased by using the SQLite database. The database can save Museum data as well as a visitor's preferences. It supports SQL queries and can make the processing of the database faster. It quickly calculates for further requests for display.;Keywords: TGEA, Virtual Museum, Game Engine, SQLite