It's going to be dependent on your hardware and the osg structures you use.
Try running this and the bring up the grid.ive in osgviewer. It generates 9.000.000 verts, 18.000.000 tris. On my box Win XP 4Gb Ram, Quadro FX 4600, it renders at 20 hz, using 1.3 Gb memory. Brian unsigned int num = 3000; osg::HeightField* grid = new osg::HeightField; grid->allocate(num,num); grid->setXInterval(1); grid->setYInterval(1); for(unsigned int rr=0;rr<num;++rr) { for(unsigned int cc=0;cc<num;++cc) { grid->setHeight(cc,rr,sin((float)(cc+rr))); } } osg::Geode * geode = new osg::Geode; geode->addDrawable(new osg::ShapeDrawable(grid)); osgDB::writeNodeFile(*geode,"grid.ive"); [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ----- To: osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org From: "fabio riot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04/21/2008 10:35AM Subject: [osg-users] laser scanner file Hi all I'm new in OSG, so I need some advices to address my work. I need to visualize a large dimension laser scanner file (.ply). it contains about 6.000.000 of points and 12.000.000 of triangles (point's connections). I'm not able to view the entire file with a single node scenegraph (the program fails): osg::Node* node = NULL node = osgDB::readNodeFile("entire_file.ply"); //with my plugin osg::ref_ptr<osg::Group> root = new osg::Group(); root->addChild(node); viewer....etc So I have broken the "laser cloud" in more little pieces (at example 12 pieces each one with 500.000 points and about 1.000.000 triangles) and I have created a scenegraph with 12 node osg::ref_ptr<osg::Group> root = new osg::Group();new osg::Group(); root->addChild(node1); root->addChild(node2); ..... root->addChild(node12); where each node contains one pieces of data In this way I can load and view the all strucure...but the loading time is very very long (60 min) I'would like to know if this is the correct way to tackle my problem or if there's a clever way...Thanks _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org