Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to design an innovative ship handling simulation program by combining the development of Quest3D software and the Google earth harbor terrain software. The paper describes the usage of the Google earth program to retrieve the latitude and longitude elevation, through GIS conversion and 3D graphical model to generate the Quest 3D harbor construction blueprint. Projectors display the image with build-in formula calculated angle settings to achieve a better perspective for the projectors installation. A 3D virtual reality scene was built by using the Maya Model, and then we overlap with the harbor module to complete the famous world ports. The results will be tested in the ship handling simulator machine at the 3D virtual reality software development laboratory.