Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Chen Gao]

Well,Chris. Just as you assumed,my case is quite complicated. I have to make a 
growing up effect HUD, ie, dynamically scaled up one. Use Mt to scale the HUD 
node will never work since we set the camera ABSOLUTE_RF mode. Then i tried to 
use the setviewmatrix method to scale it up but this won't work,too. 

The only way I 've found working is to scale up the raw image passed to 
draw the pic. The drawable can be a texture or a drawpixels and i use the 
latter one. To enable dynamic effect, I have to use a custom NodeCallBack class 
to handle it. Each callback time I have to set and scale the image to the 
drawpixels to show a growing up scaled size.
   But since I saw the HUD content of your github link, I guess the 
SnapImage struct the author creates may be a new way to handle this job.I 'll 
try it in the next following days. Thank you,guy!|-) 
 

Chris Hanson wrote:
> 
> 
>   I was just trying to be thorough and complete because I wasn't clear on the 
> situation, so I was throwing all possibilities out there to see if that was 
> the reason I wasn't getting it.
> 
> 
>   Normally making a HUD is pretty straightforward ( 
> https://github.com/openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph/tree/master/examples/osghud 
> (https://github.com/openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph/tree/master/examples/osghud)
>  ) so I assumed this must be a more complex case. 
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Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Chen Gao]

Yeah,Terry. #1 is the exactly the right way to use HUD. I've been trying these 
days to use MT transformation method to operate the child HUD node but it will 
never be able to control it because i found that I've used the following line 
of code:

camera->setReferenceFrame(osg::Transform::ABSOLUTE_RF); 

 When I looked up the detailed explanation of this code on the net,I 
realized that MT will never be working on it.If we want to control its 
position, we only have to and only need to use the camera node itself.That will 
be Ok.

   I haven't tried to delete this line code and then use MT to 
control the camera node, but I guess that will result in a bad effect and I 
haven't seen anyone on the net to use HUD this way. So |-) just don't care 
about it. 


Terry Welsh wrote:
> I have only done #1, where the HUD node is derived from osg::Camera. I
> set the view matrix and projection matrix to provide a simple box in
> which to render all HUD elements. The individual elements can be
> positioned within that box with MatrixTransforms.
> 
> It's not very hard to get this working. Try prototyping it with one
> osgText::Text element and one simple box or sphere under a
> MatrixTransform.
> 
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Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Chris Hanson]

>
> Chris, I assumed your first idea. AR labels never crossed my mind.
> Maybe Chen can tell us if I made the right assumption.
>

  I was just trying to be thorough and complete because I wasn't clear on
the situation, so I was throwing all possibilities out there to see if that
was the reason I wasn't getting it.

  Normally making a HUD is pretty straightforward (
https://github.com/openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph/tree/master/examples/osghud
) so I assumed this must be a more complex case.

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Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Terry Welsh]

>  So you mean that if i want to move or scale these hud nodes on the main 
> screen, i have to use the camera's setviewmatrix method to do this? Add the 
> hud nodes to a new MT and use the Mt transform methods won't work,right?
>
>  The node structure instruction is like the following:
>
>   1. Root->hud node->Mt node->geode node->geometries;
>
>   2. Root->Mt node-> hud node->geode node->geometries;
>
> So the first one will work and the second won't,right?
>
I have only done #1, where the HUD node is derived from osg::Camera. I
set the view matrix and projection matrix to provide a simple box in
which to render all HUD elements. The individual elements can be
positioned within that box with MatrixTransforms.

It's not very hard to get this working. Try prototyping it with one
osgText::Text element and one simple box or sphere under a
MatrixTransform.

>
> I'm afraid I didn't understand this explanation very well myself. My first
> question would be, do the HUD elements (the 2d pics) stay stuck to the
> screen space (as if they were part of a game scoreboard overlaid onto the
> screen) or do the move around the screen as the main view camera rotates,
> tilts, moves, etc like an Augment Reality environment?
>
Chris, I assumed your first idea. AR labels never crossed my mind.
Maybe Chen can tell us if I made the right assumption.
- Terry
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Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Chen Gao]

Chris Hanson wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm afraid I didn't understand this explanation very well myself. My first 
> question would be, do the HUD elements (the 2d pics) stay stuck to the screen 
> space (as if they were part of a game scoreboard overlaid onto the screen) or 
> do the move around the screen as the main view camera rotates, tilts, moves, 
> etc like an Augment Reality environment?
> 
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Thank you for your reply. If you feel confused by my unprofessional   
explanation:), you can think it this way as below:

   Can I use a MT node to add the Hud node and then transform the hud on 
the screen by the MT parent node.This should be clear.

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Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Chris Hanson]

>
> Well,as the subject notes,The software in my dev job has to use a HUD
> to show 2d pics. Generally using a camera to create a new viewport to show
> the pic will be OK.
> But the 'Entity' base class for the software system uses a MT
> (matrixtransform) to add the detailed entity node(such as basic
> geometry,text with a geode) and then add this MT node to the root by the
> datacontainer manager class.
> If I create the hud entity class derived from the base class, ie, add
> the camera node to the MT node,does it work if I operate the move, scale
> commands to this hud entity by using MT,not the camera? If it doesn't work,
> how can I change the node structure to make the Hud entity responsive to
> the transform operations which is generated by MT.Or do I only have to use
> the camera node itself to do these transformation jobs?
>

I'm afraid I didn't understand this explanation very well myself. My first
question would be, do the HUD elements (the 2d pics) stay stuck to the
screen space (as if they were part of a game scoreboard overlaid onto the
screen) or do the move around the screen as the main view camera rotates,
tilts, moves, etc like an Augment Reality environment?

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Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Chen Gao]

Thank you Terry! 

 So you mean that if i want to move or scale these hud nodes on the main 
screen, i have to use the camera's setviewmatrix method to do this? Add the hud 
nodes to a new MT and use the Mt transform methods won't work,right?

 The node structure instruction is like the following:

  1. Root->hud node->Mt node->geode node->geometries;

  2. Root->Mt node-> hud node->geode node->geometries;

So the first one will work and the second won't,right?  



Terry Welsh wrote:
> I have made plenty of HUD classes derived from osg::Camera. It's easy
> to set it up as an orthographic or perspective projection, depending
> on what look you're going for. Then I compute some simple coordinates
> for the screen corners like this:
> 
> mHUDLRBT[0] = -mAspectRatio;
> mHUDLRBT[1] = mAspectRatio;
> mHUDLRBT[2] = -1.0f;
> mHUDLRBT[3] = 1.0f;
> if(mAspectRatio < 1.0f){
> mHUDLRBT[0] = -1.0f;
> mHUDLRBT[1] = 1.0f;
> mHUDLRBT[2] = -1.0f / mAspectRatio;
> mHUDLRBT[3] = 1.0f / mAspectRatio;
> }
> 
> All your HUD nodes (such as osgText::Text or something derived from
> MatrixTransform) can be positioned relative to those screen corners.
> Every time you resize your window you should call your HUD nodes
> positioning method.
> - Terry
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Re: [osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Terry Welsh]

I have made plenty of HUD classes derived from osg::Camera. It's easy
to set it up as an orthographic or perspective projection, depending
on what look you're going for. Then I compute some simple coordinates
for the screen corners like this:

mHUDLRBT[0] = -mAspectRatio;
mHUDLRBT[1] = mAspectRatio;
mHUDLRBT[2] = -1.0f;
mHUDLRBT[3] = 1.0f;
if(mAspectRatio < 1.0f){
  mHUDLRBT[0] = -1.0f;
  mHUDLRBT[1] = 1.0f;
  mHUDLRBT[2] = -1.0f / mAspectRatio;
  mHUDLRBT[3] = 1.0f / mAspectRatio;
}

All your HUD nodes (such as osgText::Text or something derived from
MatrixTransform) can be positioned relative to those screen corners.
Every time you resize your window you should call your HUD nodes
positioning method.
- Terry

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> node?
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> Hi,guys
>
> Well,as the subject notes,The software in my dev job has to use a HUD to 
> show 2d pics. Generally using a camera to create a new viewport to show the 
> pic will be OK.
>
> But the 'Entity' base class for the software system uses a MT 
> (matrixtransform) to add the detailed entity node(such as basic geometry,text 
> with a geode) and then add this MT node to the root by the datacontainer 
> manager class.
>
> If I create the hud entity class derived from the base class, ie, add the 
> camera node to the MT node,does it work if I operate the move, scale commands 
> to this hud entity by using MT,not the camera? If it doesn't work, how can I 
> change the node structure to make the Hud entity responsive to the transform 
> operations which is generated by MT.Or do I only have to use the camera node 
> itself to do these transformation jobs?
>
> Please do me a favor!Thank you,guys!
>  :)
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[osg-users] Can i use MatrixTransform to transform a HUD node?

[Chen Gao]

Hi,guys

Well,as the subject notes,The software in my dev job has to use a HUD to 
show 2d pics. Generally using a camera to create a new viewport to show the pic 
will be OK. 

But the 'Entity' base class for the software system uses a MT 
(matrixtransform) to add the detailed entity node(such as basic geometry,text 
with a geode) and then add this MT node to the root by the datacontainer 
manager class. 

If I create the hud entity class derived from the base class, ie, add the 
camera node to the MT node,does it work if I operate the move, scale commands 
to this hud entity by using MT,not the camera? If it doesn't work, how can I 
change the node structure to make the Hud entity responsive to the transform 
operations which is generated by MT.Or do I only have to use the camera node 
itself to do these transformation jobs?

Please do me a favor!Thank you,guys!
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