Hi All, I am the majority the way through porting the OSG examples across to use osgViewer, but I'm leaving the potentially biggest till last - the osgviewer application!
I can actually get the basic functionality viewer working with three lines of code - bringing up a multi-threaded, multi-screen viewer is pretty easy with osgViewer. The task become bigger once you dig a bit deeper into what the osgProducer::Viewer class does for you by default - and compare this to what osgViewer::Viewer provides for you by default. osgProducer::Viewer development ended up going down the route of integrating a wide range of functionality - the big areas were: statistics state manipulation saving to file multiple camera manipulator selectable from a key press escape key sets done If you didn't want these then you'd have to switch them off via the Viewer::setUpViewer(uint optionsMask). I have gone a different route with osgViewer::Viewer, it comes with none of the above, not even a camera manipulator. The only exceptions are the default of escape key sets done, and the run method that checks to see if any camera manipulator is present, if not it automatically sets a trackball manipulator. I don't plan to add anything more in terms of default user functionality, as this I believe is really in the domain of the application program - they should add to the viewer what they require, perhaps for pre-built components, but the basic Viewer should be pretty minimal. At least thats the philosophy behind the design. Now osgviewer is an app that I have used a lot for testing purposes and model investigation purposes through the years. Facilities likes stats, state manipulation and multiple cameras are all pretty useful tools. So I'd like to port osgviewer across to osgViewer::Viewer, and add these items one by one. I am curious what functionality you'd like to see in the port osgviewer, and what functionality if any you could do without, at least initially ;-) Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@openscenegraph.net http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
