[osg-users] Android on windows?
Hi I gone through many installation procedures of osg with android. All emphasized on linux. Nowhere I could find for windows. Can android be configured with X-windows system only? Thanks -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=47188#47188 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
[osg-users] osgShadow and node masks
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could help me out with respect to correcting my understanding of shadows and node masks. I am using OpenSceneGraph 3.0.1. I have created a scene, including a osgShadow::ShadowedScene. I have set the node mask for receiving shadows (via setReceivesShadowTraversalMask) to 1, and the mask to cast shadows (via setCastsShadowTraversalMask) to 2. I am using ShadowTexture- I have not been able to get the other techniques to work properly. I have some text (osgText::Text) that I wish to attach to an animated model, screen-facing. I neither want to cast nor receive shadows from this text. The text is attached to a osg::Geode, which is attached to a osg::MatrixTransform, which the model is also attached to, indirectly. Up the tree a little bit, the osgShadow::ShadowedScene can be found. If I leave the Geode as-is, it takes the default all-bits-set node mask, and casts a shadow. If I set it to 2, it casts a shadow. If I set it to 1, it doesn't cast one, but receives shadows from objects in the scene. If I then set the Geode node mask to 0, or 4, both of which should indicate no shadow casting or receiving (as bits zero and one are not set), the text vanishes entirely. Now, obviously it shouldn't do that. I saw similar symptoms when playing with osgEphemeris, but didn't dig into it further when I shifted away from using it. If believe that if I reparent the scene so that it lies outside of the ShadowedScene, it appears correctly. This is because I have a scene fadeout using RTT, and I reparent the scene so that it does not touch a ShadowedScene in this case, and the text appears again during the transition. I am wondering if my understanding of node masks and how they interact with osgShadow is correct. If not, if someone could indicate where and how I am using them incorrectly, it would be appreciated. I was also wondering with respect to modern-day usage, which parts of osgShadow would be considered most reliable and mature. Cheers, Garth ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Building new website, assistance appreciated!
Hi, I personally prefer the design on http://webkeux.com/osg/ over the one on openscenegraph.com regarding the beginner stuff: I suggest we differentiate betwen Getting started and Setup a BuildEnvironment. As I started with OSG in 2009, the biggest hurdle was the build environment. These instructions are quite lengthly, so I suggest to factor them out of the getting started tutorial. Maybe we could have common beginner tutorials (Getting started and others) on the one hand and platform specific Setup Build Environment tutorials (per OS and/or per used Buildtools) on the other. The getting started tutorial could refer to the platform specific instructions at the beginning. I think this refactoring would reduce the wall a lot because it is more clearly which tutorials are relevant for a beginner (usually two, the getting started and his specific setup Build Environment. Cheers, Torben -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=47191#47191 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Android on windows?
Not at all, you just need a system with Cmake in command line and a NDK package compatible (There are only for windows, mac and Linux). And yes there are people working with Osg for Android in Windows, Mac and Linux. Linux and Mac are just more straightforward to work. If you search the forum there where one or two persons that confirmed working versions on Windows. ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] First OSG application on Ipad
Hi Wojciech, Am 20.04.12 17:28, schrieb Wojciech Lewandowski: We want to port an OSG program to Ipad. This was once written on Windows. We already gathered some experience on OSG/GLES when porting it to Android. And now its time for IOS. We are completely fresh on IOS Mac programming, though. So fresh, we don't even own a Mac for development station, yet. In preparation for the task I was looking on OSG site and mailing list for some guidance. My overall impression is not too rosy, though. I've found posts that CMake does not work with XCode and XCode project has a separate manually maintained repo. Since I am a such a newbie on the topic I can't figure out how severe the whole picture is and how easy or messy attempt could be. So I decided to just start a small poll and ask these few questions directly: CMake and XCode: XCode is now distributed via the mac app store, the app resides in the app-folder, and not as in previous versions in a dedicated folder called /Developer Older versions of Cmake required that xcode lives in /Developer. This broke project generation for xcode. Fortunately the nightly builds available at cmake.org include a bug fix, so cmake is working again for os x and ios. CMake generated project files vs hand-maintained xcode-project files on github (https://github.com/stmh/osg/tree/iphone cmake: + project files for most of the plugins - generated project files work either for the simulator or for the device (you'll need two xcode project files for sim and device) - no working example app hand-maintained xcode-project-files via github branch: + project can compile libs for device and lib + project can be embedded in other xcode-project and xcode can resolve all dependencies automatically. + working examples - only a handful plugins are supported - Is IOS/OSG environment mature enough to attempt a more advanced application than test samples ? I think it's stable enough to do serious work. AFAIK there are some apps in the wild from Thomas Hogarth and I published a small app two weeks ago. - For larger app would you recommend XCode or command line Cmake build ? AFAIK It's necessary to use xcode for building an ipad app (codesigning for example), but you can compile your xcode project from the commandline using xcodebuild, which works good enough. I'd recommend xcode. - I have read that XCode can be quite unresponsive with OSG project on Mac mini. Could you recommend some minimal HW configuration to handle the environment and allow for comfortable work ? yes, that's true, xcode need a lot of cycles to open and munge the osg-project files, you can avoid this by compiling the osg libs and -plugins with xcodebuild via the command line; and, you'll do this only once to get a set of libs you can use for your further development tasks. So, basically you compile your osg libs and plugins once, set up your project and use the libs from there. Working on your own project with xcode is fast and flawless, so no worry about that. (linking will take its time though) A recent mac with plenty of RAM (xcode tends to use all available RAM it can get) and a lot of cores :) will suffice. I think an midsized quadcore iMac would be a good start. I do most of my development with a two year old MacBookPro with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD and on a four year old quad core Mac Pro. - Can OSG/GLES program be tested on IPAD emulator on Mac ? We could not do it with Android (last week version of Android SDK supposedly changes that) ? If you compile osg for simulator and device, and adjust the project settings accordingly then you can test your app on the simulator and on the device. In my experience the simulator is slower than the actual device and you'll notice some artefacts/errors when rendering opengl es from within the simulator. I have a set of universal libs of osg which work for the device and for the simulator. If there's any interest I can share them online. (Built from the handmaintained xcode-project via github) The hard part with osg + ios is to get a set of working libs for simulator and device. If you have your libs and plugins in place development is as easy as with other platforms besides the longer compile-test/debug-on-device-cycles. - OSG development on Android in my opinion is far from perfect situation (comparing to Linux or Windows). If you had an experience with both Android and IOS can you just say if development for IPAD is simpler or tougher ? I don't have any experience with android, but when you have a set of osg libs ready for development, the experience is quite good. As xcode compiles your code while you are typing most of the common errors are spotted in realtime. The link times are really long, most notably for debug builds. Here's my personal setup: * I am using the handmaintained xcode-project files mostly because I do not need all the plugins * I have a dedicated old mini with continuous integration via hudson, which checks the iphone
Re: [osg-users] First OSG application on Ipad
Thanks a lot Stephan. This is tremendous help. And very encouraging. I see it's time to purchase the dev machine and start practical excercisses ;-) Thanks again, Wojtek 2012/4/21 Stephan Huber ratzf...@digitalmind.de Hi Wojciech, Am 20.04.12 17:28, schrieb Wojciech Lewandowski: We want to port an OSG program to Ipad. This was once written on Windows. We already gathered some experience on OSG/GLES when porting it to Android. And now its time for IOS. We are completely fresh on IOS Mac programming, though. So fresh, we don't even own a Mac for development station, yet. In preparation for the task I was looking on OSG site and mailing list for some guidance. My overall impression is not too rosy, though. I've found posts that CMake does not work with XCode and XCode project has a separate manually maintained repo. Since I am a such a newbie on the topic I can't figure out how severe the whole picture is and how easy or messy attempt could be. So I decided to just start a small poll and ask these few questions directly: CMake and XCode: XCode is now distributed via the mac app store, the app resides in the app-folder, and not as in previous versions in a dedicated folder called /Developer Older versions of Cmake required that xcode lives in /Developer. This broke project generation for xcode. Fortunately the nightly builds available at cmake.org include a bug fix, so cmake is working again for os x and ios. CMake generated project files vs hand-maintained xcode-project files on github (https://github.com/stmh/osg/tree/iphone cmake: + project files for most of the plugins - generated project files work either for the simulator or for the device (you'll need two xcode project files for sim and device) - no working example app hand-maintained xcode-project-files via github branch: + project can compile libs for device and lib + project can be embedded in other xcode-project and xcode can resolve all dependencies automatically. + working examples - only a handful plugins are supported - Is IOS/OSG environment mature enough to attempt a more advanced application than test samples ? I think it's stable enough to do serious work. AFAIK there are some apps in the wild from Thomas Hogarth and I published a small app two weeks ago. - For larger app would you recommend XCode or command line Cmake build ? AFAIK It's necessary to use xcode for building an ipad app (codesigning for example), but you can compile your xcode project from the commandline using xcodebuild, which works good enough. I'd recommend xcode. - I have read that XCode can be quite unresponsive with OSG project on Mac mini. Could you recommend some minimal HW configuration to handle the environment and allow for comfortable work ? yes, that's true, xcode need a lot of cycles to open and munge the osg-project files, you can avoid this by compiling the osg libs and -plugins with xcodebuild via the command line; and, you'll do this only once to get a set of libs you can use for your further development tasks. So, basically you compile your osg libs and plugins once, set up your project and use the libs from there. Working on your own project with xcode is fast and flawless, so no worry about that. (linking will take its time though) A recent mac with plenty of RAM (xcode tends to use all available RAM it can get) and a lot of cores :) will suffice. I think an midsized quadcore iMac would be a good start. I do most of my development with a two year old MacBookPro with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD and on a four year old quad core Mac Pro. - Can OSG/GLES program be tested on IPAD emulator on Mac ? We could not do it with Android (last week version of Android SDK supposedly changes that) ? If you compile osg for simulator and device, and adjust the project settings accordingly then you can test your app on the simulator and on the device. In my experience the simulator is slower than the actual device and you'll notice some artefacts/errors when rendering opengl es from within the simulator. I have a set of universal libs of osg which work for the device and for the simulator. If there's any interest I can share them online. (Built from the handmaintained xcode-project via github) The hard part with osg + ios is to get a set of working libs for simulator and device. If you have your libs and plugins in place development is as easy as with other platforms besides the longer compile-test/debug-on-device-cycles. - OSG development on Android in my opinion is far from perfect situation (comparing to Linux or Windows). If you had an experience with both Android and IOS can you just say if development for IPAD is simpler or tougher ? I don't have any experience with android, but when you have a set of osg libs ready for development, the experience is quite good. As xcode compiles your code while you are typing most of the common errors
Re: [osg-users] Android on windows?
On 04/21/2012 08:27 AM, Akilan Thangamani wrote: Hi I gone through many installation procedures of osg with android. All emphasized on linux. Nowhere I could find for windows. Can android be configured with X-windows system only? It is documented on the wiki and the general Android SDK/NDK installation for Windows is on the Google download site. However, from experience, working on Linux is *a lot* easier, because the Android tools rely on a lot of programs that are not available on Windows by default - you have to use Cygwin, do gymnastics with PATH variables, sometimes hack the Android makefiles ... It is quite pain. Regards, Jan ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
