Hi all,
I'd like to ask for feedback about something concerning osgOcean. We've
been using it in multiple views for a while now, only activating the
reflection effect, and it has worked well. We knew that one view would
control the LOD of the ocean tiles (seems to be the last one rendered,
so the last one added to the viewer). That's not a problem for us since
the views' viewpoints are generally close to each other. Surprisingly,
the reflection works correctly in all views.
A larger problem now occurs because we need to start using the
transparency effect, which depends on a refraction MRT pass. It seems
that this MRT, as opposed to the reflection, but similarly to LOD, only
takes effect in the last view in the viewer.
I've put some details on this in this issue on the osgOcean bug tracker.
http://code.google.com/p/osgocean/issues/detail?id=37
Our main problem stems from the fact that in all cases of viewer setup
we've seen, the main view is always added first, and the inset view(s)
are added after. That means that the inset views get the
transparency/refraction effects, which is not what we want.
These effects should not depend on the order of views in the viewer. But
the solution is not straightforward, and so I'm asking for comments.
Would the correct solution be to do something like in the
ViewDependentShadow classes in osgShadow, and have a ViewData class that
would store separate target textures for each view, and when rendering
the MRT camera we would switch these so they render to the right
textures for the current view? Or is there a better / simpler solution?
The oceanExample that comes with osgOcean has new options to demonstrate
this, these are explained in the issue linked above, and you can check
out the trunk if you want to tinker with it.
http://osgocean.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
I'll be thankful for any comments / suggestions.
J-S
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