Re: [osg-users] What is the meanings of setMinimumScale(1)and setMaximumScale(2)?

Hi Wangjian, please don't post the same question twice. You probably didn't receive an answer, because the question was too vague. It would have been clearer if you said that setMinimumScale and setMaximumScale are part of AutoTransform. When I run the program You are probably talking

[osg-users] OSG .NET demo using C++/CLI / again

Hi I've been playing with the various settings in C++ (no need to do this in C#), which are new to me. Eventually, the program compile and ran correctly. I changed from Debug to Release mode as well. Still don't understand what I did to make it work. Any help on how I managed to fix the

Re: [osg-users] OSG .NET demo using C++/CLI / again

Hi Ernest, Good to hear that you have your program running now. I can't really guess what you did to fix it. I'm using C++/CLI with OpenSceneGraph as well (also started from Hesicong's great example) and the SEHexception that you encountered in my case was that either an OpenSceneGraph .dll

Re: [osg-users] DBPager continuously reloading tiles

Hi JS, On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Jean-Sébastien Guay jean-sebastien.g...@cm-labs.com wrote: As an additional data point, on Windows, the NVidia drivers ship with vsync enabled by default, but ATI ships with it disabled. This always bugs me when setting up a new machine. Thanks for the

Re: [osg-users] Modifying SG based on viewpoint location

Hi Paul, we are handling it like the 'perContextData' of StateAttributes gets handled, assuming that we don't have multiple threads per context. Like Robert pointed out some data can be created on the fly - which we are doing with context- and view-dependend statesets. Richard Schmidt

Re: [osg-users] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1 release candidate three tagged

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Paul Martz pma...@skew-matrix.com wrote: Just tested the following with my current software project and encountered no issues:  2.8.1 rc3 on WinXP using VS8 with Quadro 1500M  svn head on WinXP using VS8 with Quadro 1500M  svn head on Mac OS X using

[osg-users] Drawing problems with multi context views

Hi, I'm having problems with rendering multiple views of a scene, consisting of a terrain with PagedLODs (generated using VPB), and various other models. The problems that arise are missing textures in one or several viewports and sometimes corrupted vertex data as well. I have tested the

[osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during drawing

Hi all. I have a strange behavior when I let OSG update the near and far clipping planes during drawing. When I use a perspective projection, and I move the camera inside the model (I mean, inside the global bounding sphere of the model), the near clipping plane is placed very near to the camera,

Re: [osg-users] [build] how do i generate project.exe file and .pdb file in specified folder

Hey Abhinav did you tried my early suggestion? put ../ in front of your name or prefix property as I' ve already suggested. the ../ hack is also used in osg CMake files, look at OsgMacroUtils.cmake, in particular line 263 Luigi Abhinav Dubey ha scritto: Skylark wrote:

Re: [osg-users] [build] how do i generate project.exe file and .pdb file in specified folder

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY $ENV{N3DBINARY_PATH}/N3DApp/Derived/bin/plugins) SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY $ENV{N3DBINARY_PATH}/N3DApp/Derived/bin/plugins) SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES

Re: [osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during drawing

Thank you again, Robert. -Original Message- From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org [mailto:osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of Robert Osfield Sent: venerdì 24 aprile 2009 11.54 To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: Re: [osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during

Re: [osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during drawing

HI Gianluca, Arggghhg... You can't use orthographic projects in the same way that you use perspective projections, it simply doesn't work. Use orthographic projections for external views of the scene where clipping is not used. Do *not* use it for internal views where clipping is critical. Try

Re: [osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during drawing

Thank you Robert, I apologize for my ignorance. Actually I don't want to make any zoom in, I just want to clip objects behind the camera (is there any problem in clipping a sphere against a rectangular box?) Thanks, Gianluca -Original Message- From:

Re: [osg-users] osgEarth 1.1 Released

Paul, Don't know the answer to that yet but I will let you know. If so, we would certainly be happy to do a demo. Glenn Waldron : Pelican Mapping : http://pelicanmapping.com : +1.703.652.4791 On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Paul Martz pma...@skew-matrix.com wrote: Will one of you be at

Re: [osg-users] dll tiff

Sounds like it could either be a manifest problem, or your mixing release and debug libs, Also turn up the OSG notify level to debug to get more info , are you sure that image file is being found etc. __ Gordon

Re: [osg-users] osgEarth 1.1 Released

Capaware team will be in SIGGRAPH!!! 2009/4/24 Glenn Waldron gwald...@gmail.com Paul, Don't know the answer to that yet but I will let you know. If so, we would certainly be happy to do a demo. Glenn Waldron : Pelican Mapping : http://pelicanmapping.com : +1.703.652.4791 On Thu, Apr

[osg-users] dll tiff

Hi! I have some problems with osgdb_tiff and osgdb_tiffd.I have compiled osg 2.8, 3rdStudio with visual studio 2008 express Edition. I used Cmake first and I included all the dependencies for that image format. When I execute a program with that dll (in release or in debug) the dll loads and

Re: [osg-users] dll tiff

I forgot some things. The code is like this: osg::ref_ptrosg::Image dummy; std::string icon_path = C:\\file.tif; dummy = osgDB::readImageFile(icon_path.c_str()); and the dummy returns null. 2009/4/24 Adaya Lorenzo adayalorenzol...@gmail.com Hi! I have some problems with osgdb_tiff and

Re: [osg-users] [build] how do i generate project.exe file and .pdb file in specified folder

Luigi Calori wrote: Hey Abhinav did you tried my early suggestion? put ../ in front of your name or prefix property as I' ve already suggested. the ../ hack is also used in osg CMake files, look at OsgMacroUtils.cmake, in particular line 263 Luigi Abhinav Dubey ha

Re: [osg-users] Projective texture mapping with occluders/ visibility computation

Hi, Firstly, thanks Paul, it's a good idea, I'll seriously look at it when my projective texture mapping will run correctly. I've got a few questions for you: 1)When I activate the ptm, light of the scene seems to be changed, the only responsible instruction seems to be: Code:

Re: [osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during drawing

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Gianluca Natale gianluca.nat...@adstorino.it wrote: Thank you Robert, I apologize for my ignorance. Actually I don't want to make any zoom in, I just want to clip objects behind the camera (is there any problem in clipping a sphere against a rectangular box?)

Re: [osg-users] [build] how do i generate project.exe file and .pdb file in specified folder

Hello Abhinav, hey dear Err, dear? We don't even know each other. :-) it works but the only problem is that it creates a subfolder DEBUG under BIN which i dont want ..i want the files to directly come under BIN. Any solution for this??? Weird, for me it goes directly into bin. For

Re: [osg-users] DBPager continuously reloading tiles

Hi Robert, We could possible provide an env var to provide a hint to DisplaySettings for what the defaults should be. Yes, that would be nice. As a related point, in Vortex we have a frame lock which will sleep a given number of milliseconds at the end of the post-update phase before

Re: [osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during drawing

Robert, is there a quick way to simply update near and far clipping planes for perspective projection, without calling an explicitly redraw (I mean, some visitor that computes for example the bounding box of the model and updates near and far clipping plane also)? Thanks, Gianluca -Original

Re: [osg-users] OSG + Qt4.5 + Textures

please... [Shocked] -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=10802#10802 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org

Re: [osg-users] 300 forum members

Hi folks, if somebody of you is interested in the numbers, I have computed the overlap between mailing list members and the forum users. There are currently: 1825 mailing list users. 300 forum users and 106 users, who are registered on both systems. Of course this is just an overlap by

Re: [osg-users] DBPager continuously reloading tiles

Hi JS, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Jean-Sébastien Guay jean-sebastien.g...@cm-labs.com wrote: As a related point, in Vortex we have a frame lock which will sleep a given number of milliseconds at the end of the post-update phase before starting the next frame. The amount of time it sleeps

Re: [osg-users] update of zNear and zFar during drawing

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Gianluca Natale gianluca.nat...@adstorino.it wrote: Robert, is there a quick way to simply update near and far clipping planes for perspective projection, without calling an explicitly redraw (I mean, some visitor that computes for example the bounding box of

Re: [osg-users] OSG + Qt4.5 + Textures

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Bence Frenyo bence.fre...@gmail.com wrote: please...  [Shocked] Shocked by what?? You do a particular combination of stuff and then ask a question about something that few others know anything about. Are you expecting us all to have integrated OSG and QT 4.5

Re: [osg-users] DBPager continuously reloading tiles

Hi Robert, The frame scheme I'm working on right now only affect Viewer::run(), and you'll be able to switch it on/off as well. So if you don't use Viewer::run() then you won't get this facility, and even if you do use run then you'll be able to control the whether or not it does cap the frame

Re: [osg-users] 300 forum members

Hi Art, The osg-users list has 1850 members on it right now. I can only guess that page you've got the members off isn't listing all members (it's possible to declare your account hidden). Still interesting overlap data. Suggests the combined total is around 2040 members. Robert. On Fri, Apr

Re: [osg-users] Deploying on Vista vs. Deploying on XP

Thomas Hogarth schrieb: Hi I've deployed a few apps across platforms now, and the best advise I can give is to make sure that if you change dev environment (i.e. vs2003 to vs2005) make sure you recompile everything with the new dev env (even stuff like alut :( ) On a worse note. I did once

Re: [osg-users] OSG + Qt4.5 + Textures

robertosfield wrote: Shocked by what?? Note that users in the forum can easily add emoticons through clicking on an image. Mailing list users will not see the emoticons but the BBCode that was used. I don't know if these are replaced by an alternative textual representation. Art will

Re: [osg-users] Picking Problem PolytopeIntersector

Hello now ive implemented my own Pick Handler and it runs perfect with the LineSegmentIntersector thanks a lot !! -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=10812#10812 ___ osg-users mailing

Re: [osg-users] [osg-submissions] osgParticle ParticleSystemandModularEmitterin different coordinate systems

Hi Robert, I've moved this discussion over to osg-users. Attached are some examples that should show the precision problem I'm running into. There are 4 osg files. The first one, particle.osg, is just a plain particle effect emmitting smoke. The other osg files are based on this model. The

[osg-users] determine record type from OpenFlight files?

I am loading an OpenFlight file using osgDB and I need to do some additional processing based on the specific record types, specifically terrain and roads. From looking at the OpenFlight loader in osg 2.6, it seems that this information is read by OSG (there is a flag indicating terrain and

Re: [osg-users] determine record type from OpenFlight files?

You're right, the OpenFlight importer doesn't preserve the record type in the UserData. You'll need to modify the OpenFlight importer to store the necessary information. I'd suggest using the Node DescriptionList and storing the record as a simple std::string, much less complicated than trying to

Re: [osg-users] Picking Problem PolytopeIntersector

Glad to elaborate. (However, I fear I'm about to earn the nickname of that raving lunatic who insists on using polytopes for picking... :-) When you do a mouse pick, you generally are trying to pick an object that falls into a small screen-space box around the cursor. In a perspective view, the

[osg-users] IntersectVisitor vs IntersectionVisitor

Something I just came across, trying to figure out why my line-of-sight tests were not using KdTrees: Would I be correct in thinking that osgUtil::IntersectVisitor is the old and deprecated way of doing intersection tests, and osgUtil::IntersectionVisitor is the new way to do it? Is there a

[osg-users] 2 GraphicContexts, 2 viewports, 2 cameras and 1 scene question

Hi, I created 2 cameras each one with their own viewport and GraphicContext. I have one scene. Inside the scene I have a group node that contains 2 children. Each child has a different node mask. I was trying to make one camera showing one child and the other camera showing the other child

[osg-users] line intersection performance

A couple of other questions related to intersection performance: 1) The current KdTree implementation is just for sorting triangle geometry at node leaves. Perhaps it would be useful to to have a KdTree organize the scene graph nodes themselves, based on bounding volumes? Or are bounding

Re: [osg-users] IntersectVisitor vs IntersectionVisitor

HI Peter, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Peter Amstutz peter.amst...@tseboston.com wrote: Would I be correct in thinking that osgUtil::IntersectVisitor is the old and deprecated way of doing intersection tests, and osgUtil::IntersectionVisitor is the new way to do it?  Is there a reason

Re: [osg-users] 2 GraphicContexts, 2 viewports, 2 cameras and 1 scene question

Hi Cristina, Have a look at the osgstereoimage example as this does something quite similar. Robert. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Cristina cristina.pap...@meggitt.com wrote: Hi, I created 2 cameras each one with their own viewport and GraphicContext. I have one scene. Inside the scene

Re: [osg-users] line intersection performance

Hello Peter, Funny that there are so many intersection questions lately. 1) The current KdTree implementation is just for sorting triangle geometry at node leaves. Perhaps it would be useful to to have a KdTree organize the scene graph nodes themselves, based on bounding volumes? Or are

Re: [osg-users] line intersection performance

Hi Peter, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Peter Amstutz peter.amst...@tseboston.com wrote: A couple of other questions related to intersection performance: 1) The current KdTree implementation is just for sorting triangle geometry at node leaves.  Perhaps it would be useful to to have a

Re: [osg-users] Picking Problem PolytopeIntersector

Hi Paul, When you do a mouse pick, you generally are trying to pick an object that falls into a small screen-space box around the cursor. In a perspective view, the box has smaller world-space extents at the near plane, and larger world-space extents at the far plane. In essence, it looks like

[osg-users] On demand and frame rate capping schemes from Viewer::run()

Hi All, When following up on a bug report about the pager not handling on demand/lazy frame rendering I resolved the the problems wasn't down to the pager, just the way the end user viewer code was set up to the the on demand frame rendering. Rather than leave this type of viewer usage open to

Re: [osg-users] 2 GraphicContexts, 2 viewports, 2 cameras and 1 scene question

Hi Robert, The osgstereoimage example does not create 2 cameras. Also I'm not sure what osg::DisplaySettings::instance()-setStereo(true); does, but I don't think this example helps me. I could have n number of viewports each one with their own camera, and when I traverse the scene graph, based

Re: [osg-users] line intersection performance

Hi Jean-Sébastien, Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: So the answer IMHO would be that in any case, you will want to try and build a good scene graph (both for culling performance and intersection performance). Whether you want to make a global kd-tree for the whole scene will depend on how dynamic

Re: [osg-users] 2 GraphicContexts, 2 viewports, 2 cameras and 1 scene question

Thanks Robert. I was able to figure it out. My culling mask was wrong. Regards, Cristina -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=10830#10830 ___ osg-users mailing list

Re: [osg-users] IntersectVisitor vs IntersectionVisitor

Thanks Robert. For anyone on this list using Delta 3D: I actually ran into this because Delta 3D 2.2 dtCore::Isector wrapper still uses osg::IntersectVisitor instead of osgUtil::InteresctionVisitor. I've informed the Delta 3D team that this is obsolete and should be updated. Peter Robert

Re: [osg-users] line intersection performance

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Peter Amstutz peter.amst...@tseboston.com wrote: Hi Jean-Sébastien, Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: So the answer IMHO would be that in any case, you will want to try and build a good scene graph (both for culling performance and intersection performance).

Re: [osg-users] On demand and frame rate capping schemes from Viewer::run()

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Roland Smeenk roland.sme...@tno.nl wrote: Interesting development. For a current project we need one view that runs at 5 Hz and several other views that run at 15 Hz (all in separate graphicscontexts). No, I am not joking. This is used to simulate real life

Re: [osg-users] On demand and frame rate capping schemes from Viewer::run()

Interesting development. For a current project we need one view that runs at 5 Hz and several other views that run at 15 Hz (all in separate graphicscontexts). No, I am not joking. This is used to simulate real life camera behaviour. We do our own version of the frame method, but that still is

Re: [osg-users] OpenFlight, subsurfaces and PolygonOffset settings

Hi Robert, I have seen this problem (in my case manifested by having the road draw on top of buildings (!) next to the road) in OSG 2.6 so I am glad to know it is a bug in the OpenFlight loader. In my application, I have had success with osg::PolygonOffset(1.0f, 4.0f) to push the terrain

Re: [osg-users] On demand and frame rate capping schemes from Viewer::run()

This type of frame rate management is well beyond what I'd expect the viewer convenience methods like run to handle. You should expect to roll your own frame management for this type of app. That's what I thought you would answer. Well, didn't hurt to try. Thanks. -- Roland

Re: [osg-users] line intersection performance

Robert Osfield wrote: If your data is stored in a flat group the osgUtil::Optimizer spatialize groups visitor will be able to build a quad tree for you. Oh excellent, just what I had in mind :-) Thanks, Peter ___ osg-users mailing list

Re: [osg-users] determine record type from OpenFlight files?

I just realized... One issue with DescriptionList is that the OpenFlight plugin uses it for Comment record data. This is really only a problem if you load a FLT file, store the record type in the DescriptionList, and then export it back out. Your record type data would then be exported as comment

Re: [osg-users] line intersection performance

Hello Peter, However my question was really whether something like this already existed in OSG, to which the answer is no. Indeed. And in your use case I agree that a kd-tree would be pretty efficient. Perhaps we could have a scheme where kd-trees can be turned on or off for particular

[osg-users] OpenSceneGraph-2.9.4 dev release tagged

Hi All, I've just tagged 2.9.4, you cn read about it on my blog: http://blog.openscenegraph.org. Time for me to adjourn for the evening/weekend. Have fun! Robert. ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org

Re: [osg-users] 3d Triangle mesh generator

First pass at a 2/3D mesh generator to improve on DelayneyTriangulator. It's based on the Poisson surface reconstruction technique here (http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Code/PoissonRecon/) So far I have done a minimal OSG interface to the existing code (see

Re: [osg-users] On demand and frame rate capping schemes fromViewer::run()

Hi Robert -- You said the code isn't final yet, but I wondered if the osgviewer options and environment variables are final? Or do you intend to remove them after development? Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC http://www.skew-matrix.com +1 303 859 9466 -Original Message- From:

Re: [osg-users] 3d Triangle mesh generator

Hi Martin, (ps - this was bounced form the list because of the size of the attachment - see the forums for the download file) Nah, it got to the list just fine, at 11:59PM EST yesterday - see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.openscenegraph.user/43650 The auto-reply you get saying

Re: [osg-users] 3d Triangle mesh generator

Hello Martin, I think it needs more testing and input from some more knowledgeable users before it's included in the main source. osg-submissions could still be appropriate, Robert will often review work-in-progress and give comments even if the code is not ready to be merged yet. It's