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Hackathon Proposal: CompositeViewer and Canvas (view source)
Revision as of 22:11, 15 November 2020
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|title=CompositeViewer and Canvas
|title=CompositeViewer and Canvas
|image = Fg-cv-textures2.jpeg
|image = Fg-cv-textures2.jpeg
|sponsor=[[User:Cgdae|Cgdae]]
|sponsor=[[User:Cgdae|Cgdae]], Fernando,
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We came across some tricky issues, but made lots of progress.
Here's a demo video demonstrating a Canvas View on the panel of a Harrier-GR3 showing a view from the camera pod under the aircraft: [http://op59.net/cvcanvas-demo.ogv cvcanvas-demo.ogv].
We also managed to get a 777 to show an outside view on one of the cockpit displays.
Things we learnt or talked about:
* Some issues we came across when making an object in the aircraft model serve as a placement for a Canvas View:
** The object surface should uses a material with 'emis 1 1 1', otherwise it seems to only shows up when lit up by sunlight. This can be confusing if one is testing while one's aircraft is facing into the sun.
** When the surface(s) of the object reference vertices, they need to specify differing texture coordinates (not just '0 0' for each vertice reference, otherwise nothing shows up.
* The textures that Canvas uses are tied to graphics contexts, so aren't shared between windows. This means that extra view windows don't show in-cockpit displays. It was suggested that sharing textures was actually possible, as long as the graphics contexts are on the same GPU.
* We can't yet change a Canvas View to show a different view, e.g. swap between tail-camera and gear-camera. The underlying CompositeViewer has full support for destroying and creating new views, and Canvas supports adding/removing elements, so hopefully this will be relatively easy to address.
* Frame rates might be significantly affected even if a Canvas View is only showing a small part of the scene.
* Apparently it should be possible to make a Canvas View show different affects, such as infra-red vision.
|summary=[[CompositeViewer Support]] already allows us to create multiple top-level windows showing different views of the same scenery.
|summary=[[CompositeViewer Support]] already allows us to create multiple top-level windows showing different views of the same scenery.