Matt, You might take a look at the osgEarth project. The osgEarthUtil::EarthManipulator (a CameraManipulator) that they are using allows remapping of inputs to actions. For example you can program what keys do and what mouse buttons and scrollwheels do.
I'm not sure that it achieves a full decoupling that you're driving at, but might be worth a look. -Brad -----Original Message----- From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org [mailto:osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of Matt Caron Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:58 AM To: osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org Subject: Re: [osg-users] How Camera Manipulators Work Chuck, I think I'm gonna come back to this thread in a little while with a proposed project to realize the mapping that has been discussed over the past few entries. Maybe you can take a look at the proposal and give some feedback? I agree that most users probably find the current manipulators usable with some tweaking, but for such an object oriented and modularized system, I hate to think that the typical user is out there adjusting source code for the manipulator and then calling it something else. I think this part of the system is just far too tangled in its logic and should be opened up for extensibility purposes. For those who find the current manipulators to be useful, theres no reason we can't provide a factory to hand out all the versions of manipulators that people are used to - mapped to the IO that people are used to....so I think we can keep it equally simple for users who don't want extensibility, but at the same time we can make new manipulators far easier for those of us with unusual IO devices, or unusual manipulator logic. At the moment I'd say my two primary goals for this camera re-write are: 1) Separation of IO from Camera Manipulators 2) Pluggable IO system with regard to Camera Manipulators 3) Factory(s) to build the manipulators everyone is used to Thanks. Matt ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=32867#32867 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
