[osg-users] extending intersections to have the texel value

2010-01-13 Thread Trajce Nikolov
Hi community, Is it worth to extend the intersection class to have the texel value of the intersection? I am about to write it for my own need, and was wondering if this extension can be adopt by the core Nick http://www.linkedin.com/in/tnick Sent from Devlet, Ankara, Turkey

[osg-users] User defined Manipulator in a thread

2010-01-13 Thread Tufan Taş
Hi, I define a manipulator for my project that rotates the scene using arrow keys and view the scene in a control of windows form by using a thread. But my manipulator does not work when I embed the scene into windows form. Here is my code. Viewer osgViewer; void OSGProject::OSGThread() {

Re: [osg-users] User defined Manipulator in a thread

2010-01-13 Thread Trajce Nikolov
I think you need to pass the events from the main thread to your manipulator thread. There was recent discussion about this http://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg35853.html http://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg35853.html Nick

Re: [osg-users] User defined Manipulator in a thread

2010-01-13 Thread J.P. Delport
Hi, Windows does not send events to this new thread. See the whole thread here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.openscenegraph.user/50527 and here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.openscenegraph.user/53279 for a possible solution. jp Tufan Taş wrote: Hi, I define a

[osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Gene Permel
Hi, I want to perform zoom operation. Is there any way to do it but not like the TrackballManipulator because it does not like a zoom effect. I want picture to be doubled in size when zoomed in. Thank you! Cheers, Gene -- Read this topic online here:

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Vincent Bourdier
Hi, If you just need to change a picture size in your scene, apply it on a geometry (a quad) and scale the transform supporting the geode. It might be enough. Regards, Vincent. Gene Permel a écrit : Hi, I want to perform zoom operation. Is there any way to do it but not like the

Re: [osg-users] User defined Manipulator in a thread

2010-01-13 Thread Tufan Taş
Hi, I copy that code but cannot compile it. I get many error messages. Thank you! Cheers, Tufan -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=22492#22492 ___ osg-users mailing list

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Gene, Are you after moving the eye point near your scene or keeping the eye point the same position and adjusting the field of view? TrackballManipulator adjusts the eye point and not the field of view. Robert. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Gene Permel gen...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Gene Permel
Hi, I use the model in 3ds format can I apply geometry on 3ds? Because I load the model using readNodeFile Thank you! Cheers, Gene -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=22494#22494 ___

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Gene, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Gene Permel gen...@hotmail.com wrote: I use the model in 3ds format can I apply geometry on 3ds? Because I load the model using readNodeFile The model format your load from is totally independent from how you view it. Could you please look back to my

Re: [osg-users] Hierarchical vertex shader

2010-01-13 Thread Erik Jonsson
I had a look on osgAnimation and osgCharacter and it seems like skeletal animation is something similar to what I like to do. Now I'm trying to send uniform arrays to the shader. In the end I like to send the transform matrices to the shader, but even with uniform float array it doesnt seem to

Re: [osg-users] [vpb] Are we too optimistic about large database generation ?

2010-01-13 Thread Luc Claustres
J.P. Delport wrote: The vpbmaster command created 473 tasks and after 50 hours of processing created 1.5 million files with a total size of 487GB. The input data is around 800GB if I remember OK. So the 60 days does sound a bit extreme. In our case, VPB created about 130 000 tasks...

[osg-users] [osgPlugins] curl plugin, ProxyNode, and non-existing remote files

2010-01-13 Thread Magnus Kessler
Loading remote osg files from a web server generally works very well when the curl plugin has been compiled into OpenSceneGraph. However, if an osg file contains a ProxyNode that points to a missing remote file (404) this leads to a storm of requests (once per frame!) for the non-existing

Re: [osg-users] [vpb] Are we too optimistic about large database generation ?

2010-01-13 Thread Luc Claustres
zonk wrote: Hi Luc, At first: Are you really really sure you want to use windows? Don't misunderstand me, I'm not a linux-geek, I use myself windows for nearly everything, but VPB is one of the things which are running much faster on linux. We can use Linux, no problem with that,

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Gene, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Gene Permel gen...@hotmail.com wrote: I just want to keeping the eye point the same position and adjusting the field of view. All you need to do is adjust the viewer's Camera's projection matrix to adjust the field of view. i.e.

Re: [osg-users] [vpb] Are we too optimistic about large database generation ?

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Luc, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Luc Claustres luc.claust...@vegatechnologies.fr wrote: That is a possible issue as we use external USB drives with a NTFS file system. This is your problem. USB really isn't a good solution for IO bound applications. NTFS file system isn't a good

[osg-users] Draggers in custom size viewport problem

2010-01-13 Thread Mika Hakkarainen
Hi, I have a problem with draggers in viewport which size is not the same as the window. I tried also the osgManipulator example and the same problem occurs there. Modify osgManipulator example by adding for example following lines after constructing the viewer: viewer.setUpViewInWindow

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Gene Permel
Hi, I am already using setProjectionMatrixAsPerspective but it does not make a zoom it only changes the position of view Thank you! Cheers, Gene -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=22506#22506

[osg-users] [forum] ive modification

2010-01-13 Thread İsmail Kurnaz
Hi, I'd like to modify an *.ive file. For example I want to add new building to an existing ive file. How can I do this? or how can I convert ive files to another 3d format for example 3ds? Thank you! Cheers, İsmail -- Read this topic online here:

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Gene, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Gene Permel gen...@hotmail.com wrote: I am already using setProjectionMatrixAsPerspective but it does not make a zoom it only changes the position of view Camera::setViewMatrix*(..) affects the position of the view. Camera::setProjectionMatrix*(..)

Re: [osg-users] [osgOcean] osgOcean bugs(?) and questions

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Palumbo
Thanks for the response... I'm also seeing some flickering black pixels near the horizon in the water when the view camera is above water. I'm thinking this is z-fighting of the polygons. Has anybody else seen this problem? Cheers, Paul -- Read this topic online here:

Re: [osg-users] [vpb] Are we too optimistic about large database generation ?

2010-01-13 Thread J.P. Delport
Hi Luc, Luc Claustres wrote: J.P. Delport wrote: The vpbmaster command created 473 tasks and after 50 hours of processing created 1.5 million files with a total size of 487GB. The input data is around 800GB if I remember OK. So the 60 days does sound a bit extreme. In our case, VPB

Re: [osg-users] [forum] ive modification

2010-01-13 Thread J.P. Delport
Hi, try osgconv in.ive out.osg jp İsmail Kurnaz wrote: Hi, I'd like to modify an *.ive file. For example I want to add new building to an existing ive file. How can I do this? or how can I convert ive files to another 3d format for example 3ds? Thank you! Cheers, İsmail

Re: [osg-users] [vpb] Are we too optimistic about large database generation ?

2010-01-13 Thread J.P. Delport
Hi, J.P. Delport wrote: Hi Luc, Luc Claustres wrote: J.P. Delport wrote: The vpbmaster command created 473 tasks and after 50 hours of processing created 1.5 million files with a total size of 487GB. The input data is around 800GB if I remember OK. So the 60 days does sound a bit extreme.

Re: [osg-users] RTT slave views and multi-threading

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Tugkan, The osgdistortion example works a bit like what you are describing, could you try this to see what performance it's getting. As for general notes about threading, if you are working on the same graphics context as you are then all the draw dispatch and the draw GPU can only be done by

Re: [osg-users] User defined Manipulator in a thread

2010-01-13 Thread Trajce Nikolov
the code was intended to give you a hint. What is your app settings? WIndows? Linux? The code snippet is for win32 only Nick http://www.linkedin.com/in/tnick Sent from Devlet, Ankara, Turkey On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Tufan Taş tas.tu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I copy that code but

[osg-users] osgText issue

2010-01-13 Thread Trajce Nikolov
Hi, I am trying to write some more sophisticated input control on top of osg. The one in osgWidget::Input is ok but I am to get it more feature rich. Now, I have all the code almost done, and I come accross one issue: Imagine you want to go left-right with cursor. This requires knowing the

Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT!

2010-01-13 Thread Agostinho Silva
Hi you all. This is directly to forum managers (Robert and son on). I just arrived to this community, but I have my real data in here. However, my real first name is often misspelled or read by foreigners (Agostinho) so I got used to being known for a short abbreviation of my *real* name,

Re: [osg-users] RTT slave views and multi-threading

2010-01-13 Thread Tugkan Calapoglu
Hi Robert, Hi Tugkan, The osgdistortion example works a bit like what you are describing, could you try this to see what performance it's getting. osgdistortion's threading model is set to SingleThreaded in the code. I changed it to DrawThreadPerContext and now I can see that draw starts

Re: [osg-users] User defined Manipulator in a thread

2010-01-13 Thread Tufan Taş
Hi, Windows. When I add osgViewer.setUpViewInWindow() at the beginning of OSGThread() function the manipulator works but an extra window appears because of setUpViewInWindow function. I tried setUpViewerAsEmbeddedInWindow function but this time compiler gives Attempted to read or write

Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT!

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
HI Agos, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Agostinho Silva agos...@gmail.com wrote: The short name is Agos. I would like to use it here too. But will that be possible, whilst conforming to your forum rules? Yes that's fine. The aim on the naming policy is to instill a friendly discourse

Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT!

2010-01-13 Thread Art Tevs
Hi Agos, We can change your name from Agostinho Silva to Agos Silva, if you like so. However we can not just remove the last part of your name, because we should stay fair in respect to other people. The main reason, why everybody is asked to have both names, is that this forum is connected to

Re: [osg-users] RTT slave views and multi-threading

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
HI Tugkan, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Tugkan Calapoglu tug...@vires.com wrote: Sure. I do not expect that two cameras render in parallel onto a single window, but cull and draw of a certain camera should run parallel. Indeed they do so normally with the exact same scene and application.

Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT!

2010-01-13 Thread Art Tevs
Hi Robert, I don't agree with that. Maybe you remember the discussion half year ago about using of the nicknames or first name parts only in the forum. The finally decision was to force every user to have both parts of the name in his profile. If user wished to have some kind of anonymity, he

[osg-users] [osgPlugins] Importing from OpenCascade

2010-01-13 Thread Ender EREL
Hello everyone, I just took over a project that uses OpenCascade from a colleague who is now doing his military service. I now want to import the models created using this tool into OSG. By default OpenCascade supports exporting to IGES, STEP BREP formats. I have been searching the web for a

Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT!

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Art, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Art Tevs arti_t...@yahoo.de wrote: So it is ok to change the first name from a longer version to some shorter one. However it is still not ok to just to use the first part of the name. Or if we allow it for one user, then we have to allow it for

Re: [osg-users] Siggraph 2010 OSG BOF best day/time for OSG community

2010-01-13 Thread Wang Rui
Hi John, I'm planning to fly from China to Los Angeles and stay for a week at the time of SIGGRAPH. So every time is OK for me. I'm also interested in giving a short talk about drawing GIS features on VPB generated terrain, or something else if I have better ideas at that time. :) Wang Rui

Re: [osg-users] RTT slave views and multi-threading

2010-01-13 Thread Wojciech Lewandowski
Hi Tugkan, Robert mentioned lengthy read operation. It may be related to read buffer operation thats used to compute shadow volume in LightSpacePerpspectiveShadowMapDB. If your slave view uses osgShadow::LightSpacePerpspectiveShadowMapDB then you may check if

Re: [osg-users] Transparent node cast shadow with ShadowMap?

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hello Dominic, I would like to have my object cast a shadow to its environment with ShadowMap and ShadowedScene. This works, but - like ShadowMap defines - there are shadows on the object self. It is not possible to turn off these shadows, is it? The ShadowMap-based techniques only honor

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] Can't export OSG to 3DS in 2.9.6 and can't build osgIntrospection Lib

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hello Agostinho, Regarding the compilation problem, it was solved, as you said. But I think that info should be in the documentation or in a readme file, because it's so important, or if it is there, it should be made more visible because I searched a lot and still couldn't find it. The

Re: [osg-users] osgText issue

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Nick, I am trying to write some more sophisticated input control on top of osg. The one in osgWidget::Input is ok but I am to get it more feature rich. Now, I have all the code almost done, and I come accross one issue: I can't really help except to tell you that Jeremy Moles who wrote

Re: [osg-users] osgText issue

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Nick, one thing I dont like on osgWidget::Input is how inefficiently works with the text so I wrote my own Do you have the time to try and improve osgWidget::Input? If you find it inefficient chances are others will too (for example me :-) I will probably use it in the near future), but

Re: [osg-users] Loss of textures in multiple views over a terrain model.

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Matt, This topic has been covered a number of times of the last year, so it'd be useful for you to visit the archives and do some background reading on the topic. I would also recommend using the last version of the OSG such as 2.9.6 or svn/trunk as this has some improvements to the way that

Re: [osg-users] osgText issue

2010-01-13 Thread Trajce Nikolov
Do you have the time to try and improve osgWidget::Input? yes and now :-). I have time at nights from home, so that was my idea as well to put what I have come up with into the distribution. Also, the thing I wrote can be easily extended into text editor - multi line input. I have some plans to

Re: [osg-users] osgText issue

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Nick, I have some plans to work on osgWidget in the near future, once the funding gets going :) Excellent, I just wanted to make sure people like you and me who have the need and the will to improve it will continue to do so and not just develop things in isolation. :-) Thanks, J-S --

Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT!

2010-01-13 Thread Agostinho Silva
robertosfield wrote: Perhaps a mis-understanding... I was OK'ing the use of shorten version of Agos first name. Robert. Exactly, you got it Robert! :) A bit of a misunderstood, but perhaps it was my fault. I don't mind at all the use of my last name. And I also don't mind having my

Re: [osg-users] Loss of textures in multiple views over a terrain model.

2010-01-13 Thread Matthew Howell
Hi Robert, Many thanks for that, I will keep looking. Matthew -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=22548#22548 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] Can't export OSG to 3DS in 2.9.6 and can't build osgIntrospection Lib

2010-01-13 Thread Agostinho Silva
Hi Jean. Thank you again. Ooops.. I didn't know there was the habit of making everybody compiling developer versions... but after all, aren't all of them for developers? :-P So, I think that puting those binaries there could spare newbies, like myself, lots of precious time working around to

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] Can't export OSG to 3DS in 2.9.6 and can't build osgIntrospection Lib

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Agos, Ooops.. I didn't know there was the habit of making everybody compiling developer versions... but after all, aren't all of them for developers? Razz Yes but not all developers need to use developer releases... Some use stable releases exclusively. J-S --

Re: [osg-users] [osgOcean] osgOcean bugs(?) and questions

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Palumbo
I was looking at the first image in this thread: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?t=4530 and I see the black dots in that image as well (near the horizon to the right).. -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=22552#22552

Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT!

2010-01-13 Thread Tomlinson, Gordon
Welcome Agos BTW Argos with the R for many in England without an education in the classics would associate it with a Retail Shopping chain :) and not Odysseus puppy :) Gordon Tomlinson Product Manager 3d Technology Overwatch(r) An Operating Unit of Textron Systems

Re: [osg-users] How to use vertex attributes?

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Martz
In an ideal world, vertex attributes would work more like uniforms. You'd specify a shader variable name along with your array, and OSG would determine the slot number to use in the call to OpenGL. For whatever reason, it wasn't implemented that way, and instead you need to specify the slot

Re: [osg-users] How to use vertex attributes?

2010-01-13 Thread Jason Daly
Paul Martz wrote: In an ideal world, vertex attributes would work more like uniforms. You'd specify a shader variable name along with your array, and OSG would determine the slot number to use in the call to OpenGL. For whatever reason, it wasn't implemented that way, and instead you need to

Re: [osg-users] Zoom effect

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Martz
Ditto Robert's post. The OpenSceneGraph Quick Start Guide has a good recommended reading list towards the front of the book, which you should find helpful. In the meantime, consider the following two different projection matrices: A. ...AsPerspective( 20., aspect, near, far ); B.

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] curl plugin, ProxyNode, and non-existing remote files

2010-01-13 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
On 1/13/2010 3:24 AM, Magnus Kessler wrote: Loading remote osg files from a web server generally works very well when the curl plugin has been compiled into OpenSceneGraph. However, if an osg file contains a ProxyNode that points to a missing remote file (404) this leads to a storm of

Re: [osg-users] How to use vertex attributes?

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Martz
Jason Daly wrote: I don't know if this is still true or not, but the NVIDIA drivers used to alias the generic vertex attributes with the traditional fixed-function attributes, so, for example, if you used normals in your geometry, you couldn't use generic attribute 2 (it was occupied by the

Re: [osg-users] How to use vertex attributes?

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Paul, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Paul Martz pma...@skew-matrix.com wrote: For whatever reason, The reason is two fold: 1) Performance. 2) Compatibility with display lists. it wasn't implemented that way, and instead you need to specify the slot number yourself. To complicate

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] curl plugin, ProxyNode, and non-existing remote files

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
HI Magnus, The ProxyNode doesn't know anything about database loading, all it knows that it can make requests for children to be loaded and it'll keep doing it per frame in non have been loaded yet. Whether you want to black list a child that fails to load is something that the OSG can't decide

[osg-users] how to set camera perspective lookat

2010-01-13 Thread Rabbi Robinson
Hi, I need to position my camera at certain location and look at another. Can someone tell me how to do that? I have the following code the it does not do what it's supposed to do camera-setProjectionMatrixAsPerspective(45.0, 1.0, 0.5, 1000);

Re: [osg-users] how to set camera perspective lookat

2010-01-13 Thread Mourad Boufarguine
Hi Rabbi, rather, it should be : camera-setProjectionMatrixAsPerspective(45.0, 1.0, 0.5, 1000); camera-setViewMatrix(osg::Matrix::lookAt(Vec3(0, 0, 200), Vec3(0, 0, 0), Vec3(0, 1, 0))); It is the view matrix that controls the position and orientaion of the camera. Mourad On Wed, Jan 13, 2010

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] curl plugin, ProxyNode, and non-existing remote files

2010-01-13 Thread Magnus Kessler
On Wednesday 13 Jan 2010 16:45:01 Robert Osfield wrote: HI Magnus, The ProxyNode doesn't know anything about database loading, all it knows that it can make requests for children to be loaded and it'll keep doing it per frame in non have been loaded yet. That's what I suspected. Do I

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] curl plugin, ProxyNode, and non-existing remote files

2010-01-13 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
On 1/13/2010 10:26 AM, Magnus Kessler wrote: That's what I suspected. Do I understand you correctly, though, that for ProxyNode once a child has been loaded it is considered final and no further attempts at loading will be done? Correct. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere

Re: [osg-users] [osgPlugins] Importing from OpenCascade

2010-01-13 Thread Ender EREL
Hi, Thanks for your suggestion but we are trying to avoid any intermediate tools, at least any non-command-line-accepting ones. We decided exporting to VRML from OCC and using VRML plugin for OSG. So far we are having trouble with textures but hopefully we will resolve this issue. In case

[osg-users] FFmpeg and sound

2010-01-13 Thread Serge Lages
Hi all, I've made some tests with the FFmpeg plugin and sound using the code from osgmovie (with the SDLAudioSink), it works but with limitations : - When there are multiple videos it produces random behaviors, sometimes only one sound from one video works, other times no sound is played. - When

Re: [osg-users] FFmpeg and sound

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Osfield
HI Serge, I believe the SDL interface only allows for one audio channel so implementating multiple videos would be problematic, or at least that was be reading of the API in my brief encounter with trying to get this working quickly. OpenAL and other dedicated audio libs would certainly be a

Re: [osg-users] how to set camera perspective lookat

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Martz
When I set the camera, I use code essentially like yours and it works fine. So you'll need to be more specific when you say it does not do what it's supposed to do, otherwise no one will be able to help you. Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC _http://www.skew-matrix.com_

Re: [osg-users] how to set camera perspective lookat

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Martz
Oh, of course. Ignore my last email. Apparently, Rabbi and I both read right over that. :-( Mourad Boufarguine wrote: Hi Rabbi, rather, it should be : camera-setProjectionMatrixAsPerspective(45.0, 1.0, 0.5, 1000); camera-setViewMatrix(osg::Matrix::lookAt(Vec3(0, 0, 200), Vec3(0, 0, 0),

Re: [osg-users] Transparent node cast shadow with ShadowMap?

2010-01-13 Thread Dominic Stalder
Hi J-S thanks for the reply. I solved it a little bit tricky: now we have 2 nodes of the same object, one is connected to the shadowed scene, casts shadows but is completly culled away, the other is connected to the scene root node but doesn't cast shadows. Thats all ;-) Regards Dominic

Re: [osg-users] Transparent node cast shadow with ShadowMap?

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Martz
Shouldn't it be possible to discard pixels whose alpha falls below an app-specified threshold during creation of the depth map? Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC _http://www.skew-matrix.com_ http://www.skew-matrix.com/ +1 303 859 9466 ___ osg-users

Re: [osg-users] Transparent node cast shadow with ShadowMap?

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Paul, Shouldn't it be possible to discard pixels whose alpha falls below an app-specified threshold during creation of the depth map? That's not what Dominic wanted. He wanted the node to shadow other objects but not itself. J-S -- __

Re: [osg-users] 360 degree screen captures

2010-01-13 Thread Darin Kwasniewski
Hi, Does there exist the capability utilizing the osg libraries to create the JPG/PNG without running the viewer, i.e. without displaying the viewer window. Is there an alternative to creating an image from the screen (and then writing it to the file), or is running the viewer a necessity to

Re: [osg-users] 360 degree screen captures

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Darin, Does there exist the capability utilizing the osg libraries to create the JPG/PNG without running the viewer, i.e. without displaying the viewer window. Is there an alternative to creating an image from the screen (and then writing it to the file), or is running the viewer a

[osg-users] Faster build with precompiled headers (PCH)?

2010-01-13 Thread Sukender
Hi all, Should we add PCH support for OSG? MSVC is not the fastest compiler on earth, but has support for a precompiled headers (PCH) to compensate and speed up the build. I'm not here to debate about the design of PCH(*), but I must admit it could significantly decrease compile time under

Re: [osg-users] Faster build with precompiled headers (PCH)?

2010-01-13 Thread Martin Beckett
Rather than add stdafx.h to everything you can tell Visual studio to insert it automatically Project properties - Configuration-C++-Advanced and in the Force includes box put stdafx.h. Don't know if you can do this from the CMake file. Martin -- Read this topic online here:

Re: [osg-users] Faster build with precompiled headers (PCH)?

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Martz
The pros and cons of this was discussed not too long ago in the thread Drastic build time speed-up using precompiled headers. Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC _http://www.skew-matrix.com_ http://www.skew-matrix.com/ +1 303 859 9466 ___

Re: [osg-users] Faster build with precompiled headers (PCH)?

2010-01-13 Thread Sukender
Hi Martin, Yes of course this is what I did in CMake :) Simply add compiler a command line arg in CMakeLists.txt. Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ - Martin Beckett m...@mgbeckett.com a écrit : Rather than add stdafx.h to everything you

Re: [osg-users] Faster build with precompiled headers (PCH)?

2010-01-13 Thread Sukender
Hi Paul, I'm sorry, I did a search IN MY MAIL BOX and didn't find anything... but you're right, I should have searched the whole archives first! Well, to add a few details: - AFAIK, if you put only STL (and system headers?) in the PCH, you can avoid having to recompile the whole project each

Re: [osg-users] Viewport inheritance and RTT

2010-01-13 Thread Christiansen, Brad
Hi, Just 'resubmitting' my issue with a more simple question to see if anyone has any ideas. What are the rules with viewport inheritance? - My understanding is: If a camera has a viewport set, this is used when rendering the cameras sub-graph. If it is not set, it uses the parent cameras

[osg-users] How could i use OSG in java?

2010-01-13 Thread zhuliangxiong
Hi there, How could I use OSG in java? could anyone give me some instructions or some links that related! many thanks. liangxiong zhu___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org

Re: [osg-users] How could i use OSG in java?

2010-01-13 Thread Rafa Gaitan
Hi liangxiong zhu, You could try OsgVirtualPlanets (https://gvsig.org/plugins/downloads/osg-virtual-planets) it's a GIS framework, but it has the mainly functionalities of OSG ported to Java using JNI. We have just released 2.2.0 version. Greets, Rafa. 2010/1/14 zhuliangxi...@hotmail.com:

Re: [osg-users] [vpb] Are we too optimistic about large database generation ?

2010-01-13 Thread Luc Claustres
In order to generate less tasks I also played with the --tile-image-size and --tile-terrain-size options. With a value of 1024 VPB created about 8 000 tasks, and 2 000 with a value of 2048. If I/O is the bottleneck I wonder if this would be faster to work with bigger tiles. According to the

[osg-users] osgOcean : GameDev have nice screenshot of ocean rendering.

2010-01-13 Thread Adrian Egli OpenSceneGraph (3D)
Hi all, Just FYI http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=558794 /adrian -- Adrian Egli ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org