Thanks Jason, I'll take a look later today.
---- Jason Beverage <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> The osgEarth project does essentially what you are looking for.  Check it
> out at http://www.osgearth.org
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:08 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Has anyone come across a scenario where they wished to have PagedLOD that
> > instead of handling Nodes, handle images ?
> >
> > Essentially I find myself in a position where I have a model that
> > references a texture, but that texture is quite large, and even with
> > reducing the texture size with little compromise in quality, the time to
> > stream over the web is too large. So, what I'm considering is replacing the
> > image load call, with a similar concept to that of PagedLOD's whereby I
> > could give the "PagedImageLOD" object a list of ordered image file names
> > that I want it to progressively load - in much the same way that apps like
> > google map appears to work. The first image file could be a 2x2 pixel image,
> > whilst the nth image file would be the full-on image. I would want the
> > "PagedImageLOD" to return a valid Image node immediately - perhaps a hard
> > coded small default image - whilst in the background the specified image
> > filesnames are being downloaded, and replace the content of the created
> > image node.
> >
> > The reason for this sort of functionality would be that I could then
> > intercept all image load requests via my own callback handler, replace with
> > a PagedImageLOD request, and still permit most plugins to work happily on
> > the assumption that a model plugin that loads an image is probably only
> > trying to reference that image in some stateset context.
> >
> > Sorry for the thought dump, but has anyone tried/needed to do a similar
> > thing, and if so is there an example available ?
> >
> > Alternatively, if you can think of a better way that would be good as well.
> > Most obvious alternative - that of have an LOD node on the model - would be
> > fine if I only had one or two models. However, I have thousands of different
> > models, so can't really ask our modellers to redo all these.
> >
> > Many thanks for any help/thoughts.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > .to whose content was progressively replaced by the downloaded images. In
> > this way I could
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