VT-Mak's VR-Vantage product is OpenSceneGraph-based, and it does in fact support CIGI... They told us we'd have better luck using DIS or HLA (their specialties), and weren't in a position to demo CIGI capabilities to us... It's actually a pretty great product, otherwise, and we told them if they'd of showed up with it five years ago we never would have developed our own solution. :)
As far as a multitude of IGs supporting CIGI... Well, here's hoping. As I said before, our experience was that the vendors we spoke w/ had CIGI on their buzzword list in the product literature, but when it came down to actually using it they'd get kind of cagey and direct us towards their own protocols... More competition should help that attitude a lot. :) That reminds me, when we wrote the OSG-based our deferred renderer for our Image Generator, we got FAA sign-off for releasing it to the community. If other people are looking to work on IGs, a solution for massive amounts of dynamic lights might be helpful. It's a little outdated, and needs a lot of cleaning up, but it's a starting point... Does anyone think it'd be worth my time to clean up (the curse words in) the code and improve the documentation so it could be released? -Chris B On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Tueller, Shayne R Civ USAF AFMC 519 SMXS/MXDEC <[email protected]> wrote: > That's neat...a lot more folks coming out of the closet that are using > OSG-based IGs using CIGI...;^). > > Actually CIGI is quite prolific in the IG industry which is nice for anyone > who has a host that has to interface with different IGs or wants to upgrade > to a different IG that supports CIGI. You don't have to rewrite the > communication protocol to switch IGs... > > I think VT Mak is another high profile IG vendor that uses OSG technology > under the hood that may support CIGI. > > The last time I glanced at Boeing's MPV code, they had upgraded it to > support OSG 2.8.2. They've jettisoned most of the SDL dependencies and are > now using the osgViewer paradigm along with other, more modern OSG > concepts. > The blackboard paradigm still exists with some enhancements. > > I don't consider myself a prognosticator but I predict that you will see > more IGs emerge, based on OSG and other open source tools. They will > eventually replace IGs that rely on proprietary scenegraphs and databases > because of reduced cost. In the early days, IG vendors relied on > proprietary > hardware to introduce their discriminators from the competition. With the > advent of programmable GPUs found on COTS cards such as NVIDIA and ATI, > most > of those proprietary hardware discriminators have evaporated and many have > had to retreat to proprietary scenegraphs, tools, and databases to maintain > their business edge. I think you will see a similar revolution in the > software realm as open source tools like OSG make inroads into the current > IG market. Proprietary software used by most IG vendors today (such as > scenegraphs and databases) could suffer the same fate as proprietary IG > hardware did back in the 90's... > > -Shayne > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lionel > Lagarde > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:06 AM > To: OpenSceneGraph Users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] Any recent work on CIGI interfaces to OSG? > > Hi, > > I work on an image generator based on OpenSceneGraph and driven by CIGI > commands. > > Web site of the company: http://www.oktal-se.fr Section SE-FAST-IG. > > At first MPV was a source of inspiration. This is no longer the case now. > It's been a few years since I look at MPV base code. > > Lionel > > > > On 24/05/2013 23:26, Chris Calef wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm new to OSG, coming in from the direction of FlightGear, but I'm > here primarily because I am interested in implementing a CIGI interface to > FlightGear, and would like to put as much of this work as possible into an > OSG module in order to make it useful to the larger OSG community and not > only FlightGear developers. > > > I have read the conversations about doing this from several years > ago, but have not found any recent discussion or located any available code > drops. I have downloaded the MPV example from CIGI at sourceforge, which > is > based on OSG, and that is quite helpful, but I wanted to introduce myself > here and see if anyone can catch me up on any other existing work in this > direction, or give me advice about where to start. > > > Much of the CIGI interface is dedicated to higher order simulation > functions (ie celestial bodies, ocean conditions, aircraft controls) which > are probably too specific to implement at the OSG layer, but I'd like to > make at least a virtual wrapper in OSG which could be inherited by > FlightGear and other OSG based projects, each of which could determine on > its own which functions to support, and how to support them. > > > Any pointers would be welcome. I am applying for funding for this > project in one week, so the more information I can gather before then the > better. > > > Thanks for all your efforts! > > Chris Calef, CTO > BrokeAss Games, LLC > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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