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Tutorial

We have organized the basic usage information in a tutorial file document that includes everything from downloading FreeWalk to constructing and modifying environments. We strongly recommend reading it.

Tutorial (last updated 2005.11.9)

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Japan Science and Technology Center (JST) Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST)
Universal Design of Digital City Project

When using for commercial purposes, permission from the Technology Promotion Organization is required.

FreeWalk and the additional packages are provided under the following JST license:

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FreeWalk International package (includes bilingual documentation and development environment) (last updated 2005.11.9)

VRML models, full set (Includes the 4 VRML models below)

　　Human body model, full set
　　Kyoto Station
　　Kyoto's Shijo Street
　　Imadegawa station of the subway (included with the main package above)

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Scenario Description Language Q

How to Install

! Attention !

The Install.pdf file found in the folder where the downloaded package was unpacked assumes that the installation will be done from a CD. If you download the package from this site it is not a CD install, but the install procedure is basically the same. For details please see the readme.txt file.
「FreeWalk V4 Intl Setup English」

1. Extract the main package file to an appropriate folder such as the desktop.
2. Execute "FreeWalk V4 Intl Setup English" file found in the selected folder after extraction.
3. Please install according to the install wizard(Figure below).



4. When the Wizard is finishing, download page of a Speech Synthesis Engine is opend on Web browser.So please download and install the Speech Synthesis Engine(Figure below).

Uninstall

The FreeWalk application installer modifies the following registry entries:

HKEY_CLASS_ROOT
　├ .fwk
　├ fwkFile
　└ CLSID
　　　 └ {2a46E4C0-4EDA-101B-931A-00AA0047BA4F}
　　　　　 └ InprocServer32


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
　└ SoftWare
　　　 └ Voice
　　　　　 └ TextToSpeech
　　　　　　　 └ Engine


To uninstall, open the "Add and remove programs" from the Windows settings' control panel and individually remove each item.

System Requirements

Running environment

OS	Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Memory	At least 128MB (256MB or more recommended)
Available disk space required	50MB or more
Others	MicroSoft DirectX 8.0 or above

The running environment depends on the VRML capacity for the Virtual City, Human bodies, scenarios and specially number of agents. For example, when using a simple VRML human body(see Figure 1), to display 30 agents on the Kyoto Station VRML space with the following environment:

CPU	Pentium4 2.40GHz
Memory	0.99GB RAM
Graphics card	Intel 82845G/GL Chip VRAM 64MB

results in:

Memory usage	about 235MB
FPS when few polygons are displayed	about 25
FPS when many polygons are displayed	about 5

(The goal is to achieve 30 FPS)

Libraries included in the package

• Microsoft Speech API 4.0
• OpenGL Optimizer 1.2
• Sgi Image Format Library 1.3.1

• Before installing IFL 1.3.1, please make sure to read and agree to the license of usage.

Optional libraries not included with the package (Necessary if speech functions are to be used.)

• NEC SmartVoice speech recognition engine
• NEC SmartVoice speech synthesis engine
• L&H speech synthesis engine

Patents

FreeWalk has been registered under the following domestic patent:

Patent No. 3625212 granted December 10, 2004 as per Patent Request No. 2003-323612, September 16, 2003:
"Japan Science and Technology, Nakanishi Hideyuki, Ishida Toru.
Virtual 3D space simulator, Virtual 3D space simulation program and storage media capable of reading the information from the computers used."

Please send questions to "fw-admin at lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp"