Bentley Enlivens Reality Modeling through Acquisition of e-on Software

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, announced that it has acquired e-on software, a leader in the creation, simulation, and integration of natural 3D environments, with software development based in Paris, France. E-on software is widely acclaimed in the digital content creation (DCC) market, where its VUE and PlantFactory products are a mainstay among computer graphics (CG) professionals in the media and entertainment, science, and education industries. E-on's offerings have been used in the making of numerous blockbuster films, including Minions, Jupiter Ascending, How To Train Your Dragon, Avatar, The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Hugo, and Terminator.

Headed by founder Nicholas Phelps, e-on software, operating as a Bentley subsidiary, will continue to develop innovative solutions for the unique challenges of the DCC community.

LumenRT
In 2014, e-on's LumenRT software achieved a breakthrough in enabling "live" natural environments to be easily incorporated within the work of infrastructure engineers for improved "real-time" design context and for stakeholder communications with life-like qualities. Bentley users are already benefiting from the integration of LumenRT's capabilities with Bentley's MicroStation-based common modeling environment for advancing infrastructure.

VUE and PlantFactory
VUE products enable VFX studios, animators, architects, matte painters, and CG professionals to create exceptionally rich and realistic digital nature environments. VUE provides all the tools required to efficiently model and animate synthesized natural 3D environments. It is a flexible and versatile package designed to integrate seamlessly with all production workflows. VUE xStream can be used directly inside of all leading 3D software packages, including 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, LightWave, and CINEMA 4D.

Financial terms and conditions were not released.

Dick Slansky, ARC Advisory Group, commented, ""Infrastructure and plant design software providers like Bentley Systems clearly understand the value of the 3D virtual environment, and providing its users with the capability to build virtual environments to design and validate the physical world. With the acquisition of e-on software, Bentley is providing another tool to its customers to develop and build, not only virtual plants and infrastructure, but to also build the virtual world around them."

Keywords: Digital Nature Authoring, Virtual Environment Creation, Physical Infrastructure Engineering, Digital Content Creation (DCC), 3D Software, ARC Advisory Group.