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* The CompositeViewer and Viewer should have exactly the same performance characteristics w.r.t managing multiple cameras - as it's exactly the same ViewerBase code underneath that is managing all the threading and graphics rendering.<ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg22273.html</ref> | * The CompositeViewer and Viewer should have exactly the same performance characteristics w.r.t managing multiple cameras - as it's exactly the same ViewerBase code underneath that is managing all the threading and graphics rendering.<ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg22273.html</ref> | ||
* CompositeViewer and Viewer share much of their implementation, the only key difference is that Viewer "is a" View, while CompositeViewer has a list of Views. All the event handling, camera manipulator and scene graph setting is done a the View level so has identical API to access. <ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg17372.html</ref> | * CompositeViewer and Viewer share much of their implementation, the only key difference is that Viewer "is a" View, while CompositeViewer has a list of Views. All the event handling, camera manipulator and scene graph setting is done a the View level so has identical API to access. <ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg17372.html</ref> | ||
=== Threading === | |||
* osgViewer::CompositeViewer runs all of the views synchronously - one frame() call dispatches update, event, cull and draw traversals for all the views. <ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg18308.html</ref> | * osgViewer::CompositeViewer runs all of the views synchronously - one frame() call dispatches update, event, cull and draw traversals for all the views. <ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg18308.html</ref> | ||
* osgViewer::Viewer/CompositeViewer all have the DatabasePager built into them, and will automatically run the database pager thread on demand and take care of all the operations required to manage a paged database.<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osg-users/eMh8DfsKZhQ/F1V5BZS3hLEJ</ref> | |||
* OpenGL doesn't support multi-threading within a single graphics context, so you are constrained to doing the rendering for each context in a single thread. The threading models that the OSG provides reflect this, enabling threading of the update, event and cull traversals in parallel with the draw thread. <ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osg-users/iMJF1vp0U48/9RSD3DlPAAAJ<</ref> | |||
=== Sharing scenes === | === Sharing scenes === | ||
* Each View has one scene graph, and can share its scene graph between other instances of View. The View can also share the same GraphicsWindow, or have its own GraphicsWindow. The View also has a master Camera, and an optional list of slave Camera so you can scale from simple views up to complete distortion correction or multiple display output setups. Each View has its own event handlers and cameras handlers. Its extremely flexible and configurable. <ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osg-users/kmSNMm6w008/zBBunL-VRJsJ</ref> | |||
* sharing a scene between View's is OK within one CompositeViewer as they will Views on the same scene will share the same FrameStamp i.e. there will be all at the same point in time. Sharing one scene between multiple Viewers will hit up against the problem that in one set of traversals the scene graph is one time and then the traversals from the other viewer will try to change the time back - and likely to cause a mess. This timing issue isn't likely to cause problems with high level rendering though - it should just mess up things like particle systems and sequences.<ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg07305.html</ref> | * sharing a scene between View's is OK within one CompositeViewer as they will Views on the same scene will share the same FrameStamp i.e. there will be all at the same point in time. Sharing one scene between multiple Viewers will hit up against the problem that in one set of traversals the scene graph is one time and then the traversals from the other viewer will try to change the time back - and likely to cause a mess. This timing issue isn't likely to cause problems with high level rendering though - it should just mess up things like particle systems and sequences.<ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg07305.html</ref> | ||
* The best thing we could do would be to create a single GraphicsWindow and then share this between all our Views, we then won't have any problems with rendering order and sharing of textures or FBOs as it'll all be on one graphics context. See the sogcompositeviewer example for how to set up the Views/Camera & GraphicsWindow.<ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg16029.html</ref> | * The best thing we could do would be to create a single GraphicsWindow and then share this between all our Views, we then won't have any problems with rendering order and sharing of textures or FBOs as it'll all be on one graphics context. See the sogcompositeviewer example for how to set up the Views/Camera & GraphicsWindow.<ref>https://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg16029.html</ref> | ||