Hi Robert, Appears osg::ProxyNode is the way to go. I wasn't aware of it before - sorry noob here :) I tried a few samples and it does not embed the entire node data but just the model path (as desired).
Thanks a lot! Best regards, Sumit On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Robert Osfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Sumit, > > I guess you could decorate all your external models with a ProxyNode, this > kinda does what you are looking for, possibly... > > If not then you'll just need come up with your own scheme for exporting > what parts of the scene graph you want to export and not others. > > Robert. > > > On 23 August 2013 07:38, Mots G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> >> Thanks for the prompt reply! >> >> I noticed it does not add the imagery data so textures get added as file >> paths :) >> >> However, I want to avoid the model files (.3ds, .obj, .osgt) data getting >> exported in the scene as it anyway resides on the server where the the >> scene is getting passed ( only the transform node for the model with the >> identifier of model file seems sufficient on the server end) >> >> With the model-data, the file size is huge and duplication of same model >> being passed back to the server. I understand that the model once loaded is >> a node (group/geode) and the osgDB reader/writer plugin just traverses all >> the nodes and serializes all the node properties. >> >> Is there a way I can achieve this? >> >> Best regards, >> Sumit >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Robert Osfield <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi Sumit, >>> >>> By default the .osgt and .osgx won't save the imagery to the files so >>> will just store the file paths to the original files. >>> >>> So just do: >>> >>> osgDB::writeNodeFile(*mymodel, "myfile.osgt"); >>> >>> Robert. >>> >>> >>> On 23 August 2013 06:13, Mots G <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> I'm trying to save the scene-graph to pass it across to a server. The >>>> scene-graph may contain plenty models/materials/textures which were >>>> initially fetched from the server. >>>> >>>> Is there a way I can save the scene-graph with only the relevant >>>> information and not add to it the entire node for models/textures which >>>> anyway reside on the server (but the transformations and positions). Also, >>>> would it be possible to re-generate the scene using these references (the >>>> reference could be entire path or some model-id associated on the server) >>>> >>>> I'm using the osgDB reader/writer extension to save the root as an >>>> 'obj' format. >>>> >>>> Sorry I'm a noob to this and couldn't figure out. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Sumit >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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