SpexWorld! - Presentation

Plan a street or a whole town using SpexWorld! Town, with houses, shops, vehicles, roads, trees, a Town Hall, Church and even a London Bus. Excellent for urban development projects in Geography, and with one mouse-click go inside Town and walk around.

SpexWorld! Town also contains flower beds, fences, trees and ornaments so you can make formal garden with a modern detached house, or an informal garden with a thatched cottage.

SpexWorld! Town

Curriculum	Geography	SpexWorld!Town is an obvious choice for a Geography topic to plan a town, but other SpexWorld! programs are popular resources for geography too.
Curriculum	ICT Graphical Modelling	Ideal for Graphical Modelling too! Drag items into the plan, select, move, copy, paste and rotate to see how the different ‘graphical elements’ fit together in an exciting environment.
Age	6 to 99 yrs!	For all ages but designed for primary school use and lower secondary school.
Ease of use	Intuitive and simple.	SpexWorld! Town is powerful but very easy to use and any school who uses Spex+ or SpexV2 will find the program particularly easy to integrate into their curriculum.

How does it work?

1. Choose from a selection of town scenes.

There are different town scenes

to choose from.

Plan view of a town scene.

3D view of a town scene.

2. Develop the town with shops, houses, people and trees etc.

Houses and shops etc are dragged

in to the town, rotated and

moved into place.

There are lots of different views,

here is a 3D view of the town.

Walk around inside the town using

the arrow keys.

3. Here are some more town views.

Walking around the town at night.

A garden design.

Walk around the garden using

the arrow keys.

Other stuff!

4. Here is a brief summary of some of things SpexWorld! Town will do for you:

Display

Display the plan view, 3D view and side views.

Display all the views in either perspective or orthographic modes.

Zoom in close or zoom out.

Rotate the town clockwise or anticlockwise.

Go inside of the town and walk around it using the arrow keys.

Display the town with day or night lighting.

There is a 'plan view inset' to help navigate around the town.

Shops and houses

Drag shops and houses into the town.

Rotate and move individual items.

Cut/Copy/Paste items in the town.

Right click mouse over an item to investigate close-up.

Export

Export whole town as a bitmap image.

Export selected buildings as a bitmap image.

What teachers have said about SpexWorld! programs.

"There is massive learning potential with SpexWorlds!"

"As they discovered the 3D placing, rotation and walkthroughs they just got more excited. At the end of the session they were beginning to work quite confidently and did not want to move on to their next lesson – nice, short learning curve."

"Sounds a cliché but I wish that you could have seen

the class’s reaction. An absolute buzz!"