> On 9 Mar 2023, at 22:00, Sean Murphy via Interest <interest@qt-project.org>
> wrote:
>
> I'm trying out the Qt 3D classes for the first time and am in need of a
> couple pointers.
> At a high level, I have the following:
> - 1 view, 1 scene, 1 camera, and 1 QOrbitCameraController
> - in the scene, I create 7 entities, each a child of the root entity
> - each of the entities contains a mesh that is sourced from a
> corresponding .obj file
>
> Then my main window contains 7 radio buttons to toggle which entity is
> visible at any
> given time. The radio buttons are mutually exclusive, so the goal is that
> only one entity
> is visible at any time. I'm having two main issues with the setup so far:
>
> Issue 1: QEntity::setEnabled(false) doesn't seem to make the entity invisible
> Each radio button is connected to a corresponding slot which just does the
> following:
>
> void MainWindow::slotEntity1Toggled(bool checked)
> {
> qDebug() << __FUNCTION__ << checked;
> Entity1 ->setEnabled(checked);
> }
>
> When the button becomes enabled (checked == true) the entity does in fact
> become
> visible. But when the button is disabled (checked == false), the entity is
> still
> visible in the view. If at that point I resize the application (and
> therefore the
> view) then the old entity disappears. It appears I need the 3D version of a
> repaint(), but so far I haven't found where that is (or even which class I
> should be
> looking at). I did try explicitly calling repaint() on the QWidget that
> holds the
> view, but that didn't force the 3D scene to re-render, so far I've only been
> able
> to get it to redraw by resizing the widget.
>
> From the qDebug() statement in there, I can see that this slot is getting
> called
> as expected. Every time it's called with "true" the entity changes from
> invisible->visible without requiring any window resizing. But every time
> this function
> is called with "false", I have to resize the window to get the entity to
> disappear
unless you have setup your scene to be refresh ondemand
(QRenderSettings::renderPolicy
set to QRenderSettings::OnDemand), Qt3D should constantly re-render.
Please provide more details on how the view is setup.
> Issue 2: Is there any sort of "fit in view" functionality for 3D views?
>
> Since I'm only allowing the user to display one entity at a time, I'd like
> to be
> able to automatically set the camera settings to zoom as needed to fit the
> entire
> entity within the view, so the user doesn't have to manually zoom in/out as
> they
> switch between entities.
>
> I've used the 2D classes QGraphicsView & QGraphicsScene fairly extensively
> and I'm
> used to using QGraphicsView::fitInView(QGraphicsItem*) and have the
> QGraphicsView set
> the transform needed to fit that item within the view. I was hoping that Qt
> 3D has
> something similar, but so far I haven't stumbled across it. I don't know
> enough about
> the Qt 3D classes yet to know if there's some easy way to compute the
> correct transform
> required to set this up?
>
> The .obj files I'm playing around with have VASTLY different scale factors
> so a
> camera setting for one entity often doesn't work well for another.
There’s relevant methods on the QCamera class.
Mike
> Other pertinent information:
> - Using Qt 5.15.2, but could switch to Qt 6 if required.
> - I would prefer to stick with QWidget & C++, not QML
> - I'm extremely new to Qt 3D, OpenGL, etc. so go ahead and make the
> assumption that
> I know nothing about anything in that realm. It's an accurate assumption,
> and I won't
> be offended!
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
>
>
>
>
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