Here's a quick example you can use to play around with RenderBin settings; notice how you can make one object appear "on top" of another, just by changing the binNum.
I'm not sure if this is a worth examples addition, but perhaps. On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:19 +0100, Peter Wraae Marino wrote: > thanks, this helped. > > the nested makes perfect sense.. > i'm on track again, > > once again thanks, > peter > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Lionel Lagarde > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > Peter Wraae Marino wrote: > > Hi Users, > > > > trying to clarify some specs on the renderbin, perhaps > > someone could help: > > > > what I'm assuming: > > -there are two default renderbins created at startup > > "RenderBin" and "DepthSortedBin" > > -"DepthSortedBin" is always render after "RenderBin" > > -"DepthSortedBin" sorts objects from back to front > > -higher renderbin number means rendering is done later > > -renderbins are sorted by states > > > > what I'm asking: > > -if an object has a parent osg::Group that has been set to > > "RenderBin" with a value of 10 and the object itself uses > > "RenderBin" with a value of 20 then which is used? > > > RenderBins are nested. If a node has a bin number different > from the current render bin (or its StateSet render bin mode > is set > to override), a new render bin is created and is added to the > current render bin. It become the current render bin. > > So, if a node has a bin number of 20 and it is different from > the current bin number, a render bin 20 is added to the > current > render bin. > > > > -an .osg file can have renderbin values too? so if I load > > an .osg file and set it to have "RenderBin" 10 do I override > > the renderbin values > > in the file? or are they pushed relative to my given value > > 10? sometimes the .osg file consist of many renderbin > > values. > > > > > > > An osg file can contain render bin values. If you load an osg > file and set the render bin number of the root node to 10, you > don't > override the render bin numbers of the nodes (or just the > render bin number of the root node). Because render bins are > nested > during the scene culling, it will force the cull visitor to > create a specific render bin for the whole sub-graph. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Peter Wraae Marino > > > > www.osghelp.com - OpenSceneGraph support site > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osg-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > > > > -- > Regards, > Peter Wraae Marino > > www.osghelp.com - OpenSceneGraph support site > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
