Hi Nikhil
First of all, your input allowed me to get into the right track. It all
works now and it's great. Thanks
1 further question and more comments bellow. My use of Space Navigator is
to navigate my simulations and not to manipulate them. Something like this
was asked before in the list
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-September/018757.html
Is this possible? To use Space Navigator to control the camera, user
movement and not to rotate objects? Or I must manipulate the all the
ensemble to make it seem like I'm moving through it?
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Nikhil Shetty wrote:
The reason we went with VRPN is because we were building a general VR
framework and needed the capability to support different devices (wiimotes,
gamepads, kinects etc). Developing a VRPN client plugin seemed like the
quickest way to do that and also our clients use VRPN so it was sort of our
way forward. But what you say makes a lot of sense but we are sorted of
limited by funding and the clients immediate requirements to be able to
support that. As a matter of fact the SpaceNavigator support in PV was a
community contributed patch to the original VRPN plugin. You are more than
welcomed to contribute native drivers support if you so wish to. I would be
glad to provide assistance in this endeavor if you choose to take it up.
After reading a bit about it I thought that would be the case. Anyway
spacenav seems to do more than 3D Connexion stuff. I think it can become
my pet project to contribute something to paraview code.
Anyway I will be grateful for any input, this device was bought with
paraview in mind.
As a side note, there have been quiet a lot of changes to the VRPN plugin
(its now called VRPlugin). We have a better framework to support multiple
VR devices (even tracked) from various VRPN/VRUI server sources and better
configuration mechanism to deal with these devices. However we haven't yet
ported and tested the space-navigator into this new framework. Its work in
progress and I will be sending out an email once we are ready with a few
more things (like documentation) in place.
Nice read, can't wait for the announcement.
best,
Ricardo Reis
'Non Serviam'
PhD candidate @ Lasef
Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence
http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt
Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero
http://www.radiozero.pt
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