This document provides a summary of updates and improvements coming to VBS Control and VBS4 in future releases, as presented by Oliver Arup of Bohemia Interactive Simulations. Key points include: 1) A new VBS Control AI system to replace the legacy AI with more realistic, challenging, and adaptable behaviors. 2) Improvements to thermal imaging including a physically based renderer and configurable sensor effects. 3) Over 450 new models, terrain textures, and other content being added. 4) Various core engine, rendering, weather, briefing, and content workflow improvements to enhance simulation capabilities and user experience.

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IT²EC 2023
BISim Information Session
Oliver Arup
SVP Product Management

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BISim IT²EC Headlines
• VBS Control AI – Legacy AI Replacement
• Thermal Imaging Improvements

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VBS Legacy AI Replacement
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• Multi-echelon, “real-looking”, high fidelity behaviors
• Challenging opponents for trainees in virtual sims
• Believable UAS view for command & staff
• Physics-based simulation for tactical engagements (a more realistic
outcome?)
• Provide the user a streamlined yet flexible AI task list
• Adaptable to a wide variety of use cases
• Reduce administrator reliance on human role-players
• AI will “do what it’s told” and will not get “stuck”
• Support cloud technologies to scale performance for higher
echelons, but maintain high fidelity
• …vs aggregation, or simplistic “2D” entity behaviors

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New VBS Behaviours…
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• Movement Waypoints
• Advance
• Patrol
• Admin Move
• Bound
• Withdraw
• Tactical Tasks - more complicated compared to waypoints, requiring more
info than just a single point on the terrain
• Suppress
• Pursue
• Clear
• Occupy
• Ambush
• Support by Fire
• Follow
• Formation / Stance
• Line / Column / Wedge
• Standing / Prone / Kneeling
• Set spacing
• Per-doctrine formations
• Weapon Control
• Open / hold fire
• Firing arcs
• Slow / fast rate of fire
• Restrict HE / heavy weapons
• Fire Support - intended for mortar support or HMG employment
• Indirect Fire
• Pack / Deploy Weapon
• Logistics
• Mount / Dismount / Bail Out
• Reorganize Unit
• Rearm
• Tow / Hitch
• CASEVAC
• Unit Combat Results – automatically or triggered by administrator
• Taking Cover
• Suppressed
• Surrendered
• Broken/fleeing
Pri 1
Pri 2
Pri 3

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Thermal Imaging Improvements
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• Complete rebuild of the Thermal Imaging (TI) renderer -
replaces all previous TI simulation
• Physically based thermal, emissive, and reflectance material
properties provide the basis for the signature response
• Plugin support for 3rd-party V&V atmospheric models
• Configurable infrared band support (SWIR, MWIR, LWIR)
• Post aperture sensor effects including automatic gain
control, modulation transfer function (MTF), noise, and
depth of field
• Tightly coupled with the rich VBS4/Blue entity model library
Real
EO
Real
TI
VBS4 EO Current
VBS4 TI
Tuned
VBS4 TI

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Upcoming 23.1 Product Releases
• VBS4 23.1 + Developer suite
• Simulation SDK
• VWS
• IG SDK
• VBS Blue IG 23.1

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Radio Antennas
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• Available with VBS Radio Pro the
functionality boosts radio transmission
range when antennas are configured
• The antennas are available:
• Pre-configured on supported platforms
• Can be added to any vehicle/unit with
custom performance parameters
• Units in the antenna equipped vehicles
will automatically have the extended
transmission range
• Transmission range is displayed in the 2D
map

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New Content
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457 new models since v22.2
• 53 Ground Vehicles
• 4 Air Vehicles
• 8 Water Surface
• 5 characters
• 8 new weapons
• 21 new munitions
• 4 new static/Radar/Comms
• 355 new buildings/trees
• All new desktop quality models will
have Physically Based Rendering
(PBR) textures

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Counter Battery Sensor
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• Extension of the new Electronic
Warfare (EW) editor object
• Configurable performance and
accuracy for:
• Point Of Origin (POO)
• Point Of Impact (POI)
• Time To Impact (TTI)
• Tracks munitions from FDC and
AI “order fire support”

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Damage Charring
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• New visual effect:
• Shows projectile impact point
• Scorch marks from explosions
• The effect applies to vehicles and
objects present in the terrain
• Correctly conforms to object geometry
• Charring leaves also a thermal signature

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Direct Talk Improvements
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• New functionality gives the ability to
control the volume of speech and how far
away your voice is heard
• Three selectable volume levels:
• Wisper (5m)
• Normal (20m)
• Shout (40m)
• Added new Radio HUD
• Compartment based Sound dampening
• Dampens the voice of trainees between vehicle
compartments
• Limited to Swedish vehicles initially and
requires special model configuration

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New Mission Briefing
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• Replaces the old “Notepad”
functionality
• Supports HTML and the attachment
of full .PDF documents
• Multiple briefings supported per
battlespace
• Supports multiple languages

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New Weather Panel
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• A new panel focused on weather
and atmospheric effects with
quick presets
• Old weather settings removed
from “scenario settings”
• Allows application of new
effects:
• Cloud layer altitude, layer
thickness, density
• Cloud type: stratus/cumulus
• Fog colour and transparency

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Video Options Refactor
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• Video options have been
refactored:
• Clearer UI
• More high level simple presets
• Improved search with direct
links to the correct settings
section
• Improvements still to come!

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Particle Effect Improvements
• New and improved particles for the
majority of current VBS4 effects
• Visually improved with little to no impact on
performance
• Ongoing work
• This latest iteration will continue to be improved
• All major effects improved for this release:
• Explosions
• Fire
• Smoke
• Dust
• Bullet impacts

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Rendering Improvements
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Volumetric Cloud Improvements
• Updated lighting
• Water reflections added
• Reprojection improvements (reduced visual
artifacts)
Shadows on Water
• Shadows from objects and clouds now correctly
shown on the water surface
• Post process effects
• TI Depth of Field
• Dynamic Blur
• Digital Zoom

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Core Engine Improvements
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Removal of DirectX 9
• Removes the last remaining DX9 systems
• Simplifies the backend code to be purely DX11
• Fixes missing aircraft MFDs
• Fixes problems with systems that have multiple GPUs
Removal Single Player Backend
• Should be invisible to users!
• Removes duplicate code and simplifies future development
• Added benefit of improving time to get into scenario preview
Huge performance improvements in ARR
• Up to ~200% improvement in FPS in large AARs
• Performance improved by ~35% when skipping through the AAR

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Development Suite Improvements
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Model Exchanger
• New Advanced Task Scripting plugin
• Replacement for O2 Script for batch editing P3Ds
• Ability to Ingest, modify and save configs
• Command Line Interface (CLI) support for automation
• Asset Convertor updated to support new BMI technology
Content Pipeline
• Reworking the current samples to VBS4 standards
• PBR Shader, naming etc.
• New Tutorials
• ~50 pages, platform agnostic (Blender as primary example)
• Tutorials for creating: buildings, cars and a tank
Templated Config Assembler (TCA)
• Auto generation of model configs via a UI

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Content Workflow
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VWS Improvements
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Improvements
• Performance charts added to server user
interface
• Notification to users when configuration has
changed while on the UI
• Separate WPS Service
• Replaces the GeoServer WPS plugin
• GeoServer update to come with this replacement
out of the way.
Bug Fixes
• Improved behavior when VWS is run without
a license
• Improved Battlespace synchronization with
VWS
• Improvements in the tiling of the OWS feed in
dashboard UI

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SDK Improvements
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Both
• New Customer Sensor API sample
• New VR sample. (MR to follow next release)
• Draw component is now shared between
VBS Blue IG and VBS4
• Collisions can now be queried from specific
camera instead of just main viewport.
• Gears Studio is updated to use customer
version of artifactory
• Performacne Improvements
Simulation SDK
• Sensor API moved to VBS4 engine and will
be available in VBS4 with same capabilities
as in IG SDK
• Additions to Lifeform, WeaponAspect and
Environment APIs extended
LIDAR Sensor in VBS4 using the Sensor API in Simulation SDK

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Distribution Improvements
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• Customers can now get the
download links for their licensed
versions directly from the
customer portal.
• Simply drag the authorisation file
generated from your VBS license
manager
• The Content Delivery Service
(CDS) has also had a significant
backend architectural overall
anticipated to dramatically
improve download reliability

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Coming Soon
VBS4 23.2 +
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Volumetric Snow
• Volumetric snow with configurable
depth
• Impacts physics and performance
of dismounts and vehicles
• Units will be unable to run in deep
snow can when the snow has been
compacted by a vehicle or another
unit
• Uses a buoyancy model
• Simulated the distribution of pressure
meaning a unit prone won’t sink into
the snow as deep as one standing

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BMI
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• New BMI system
• Allows control of unit height and
weight using a Body Mass Index
value
• Rebuilt completely and improves
on the original VBS3 capability
• Uses morph targets to scale
characters independently of
carried equipment

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New Action Menu
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• New action menu that completely replaces
the old system
• Object interactions are now in 3D space
• General Actions move to the Quickaction
menu
• Fully backwards compatible with “AddAction”
scripts
• Quickaction is context aware

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Config Patch Builder
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• Part of the developer suite
• Allows the modification of
parameters for any VBS4 entity
• This includes weapon
characteristics, vehicle performance
and more
• Full control over all parameters
for all included content not just
your own

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VBS4 Entity Component System
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• The VBS4 ECS will completely replace
the Interop API
• Which means… VBS4 will be able to
render many more externally
controlled entities at high FPS
• Initial variant to be available in VBS4
23.2
Platform
Turret
Tracks/Heat Marks
Lifeform
Weapon
Platform
Particles
VBS objects are more than only vehicles and avatars…

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VBS Blue IG
As well as all the rendering improvements available to VBS4:
• CIGI 4.0, and remaining CIGI 3.x versions (3.0, 3.1, 3.2)
• Extends the currently supported CIGI 2.0, 2.1, 3.3
• Now support all CIGI versions (except 1.0)
• Allow for more compatibility with existing CIGI simulators
• Reliable VBS4 Host Networking
• Fixes occurrences of missed network updates from hosts which might result in:
• Missing entities, particle effects staying around, etc.

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Blue Engine: Dual CPU Support
• Support for Dual CPU system
architecture
• Including single CPU “dual chiplet”
designs like Ryzen X3D
• Allows scene preparation to be
shared across CPUs
• Greatly improved framerate stability
• Major benefits for latency-sensitive
use cases like VR and IG

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