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.
As of version 4.35, the Triton Ocean SDK now links against NVidia’s CUDA Toolkit 11.0 for x64 targets in Visual Studio 2012 and newer. This means that if you are building Triton from source, you’ll first need to install NVidia’s...
A quick heads-up: in SilverLining version 5.072, we have refactored our OpenGL code such that the same GLSL shaders are shared between our OPENGL and OPENGL32CORE renderers. This made it easier for us to implement uniform buffer object (UBO) support...
Our latest release of the SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK includes richer lighting effects on our simulated 3D cumulus and stratocumulus clouds. These improvements give the clouds a better sense of depth, with more pronounced highlights from the...
Many customers are really pushing SilverLining to its limits, with dense cloud layers extending far to the horizon. Maintaining high framerates in these simulated conditions requires making smart choices in how you configure your cloud layers. Previously, we’ve posted performance...
It’s been awhile since we published a white paper! But we’ve got a new one ready for you: GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Complex Ocean Waves for Maritime Training. In this paper, we detail how the Triton Ocean SDK works its magic...
The SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK version 5.064 was just released, and it includes some exciting performance improvements for customers using our OpenGL 3.2 renderer! Precipitation effects, including rain, sleet, snow, and mixed precipitation, now render over twice...
Version 4.33 of the Triton Ocean SDK for OpenGL and DirectX moves off the deprecated AMD APP SDK and onto the open-source SDK for OpenCL. This means Triton’s OpenCL support is no longer limited to AMD video cards; any vendor...
The work of Bransilav Milic has graced our site before; he’s remained at work creating cinematic-quality videos of flight using the X-Plane 11 flight simulator, and our 3D cloud add-on for it called SkyMaxx Pro. SkyMaxx Pro is built using...
With version 4.27, we now support NVidia’s CUDA Toolkit version 10.1! This gives the Triton Ocean SDK faster performance on NVidia-based systems, as well as better support of newer NVidia GPU’s including the RTX series (and any GPU that supports...