The fix was to check whether glGetString( GL_VERSION ) returned a null pointer (Ref. svn diff below). The altered src/osg/GLExtensions.cpp is zipped and attached to this email."
"Soft shadow mapping is basically the same as hard shadow mapping beside that
it uses a different fragment shader.
So for me it makes sense that osgShadow::SoftShadowMap is derived from
osgShadow::ShadowMap, this makes it easier to maintain the two classes.
Additional SoftShadowMap also provides the same Debug methods as ShadowMap."
I think I may have discovered a bug in osgShadow/ShadowMap.cpp that results in incomplete shadows being generated.
The problem seems to caused by an incorrect interpretation of the spot light cutoff angle. The valid ranges for spot cutoff are 0-90 and 180, i.e half the 'field of view' for the spotlight. Whereas the shadow map code seems to assume the the spot cutoff is equal to the field of view. This results in the shadows generated by the spotlight getting clipped at half the spot cutoff angle.
I have fixed this in my copy of ShadowMap.cpp:
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//Original code from OSG 2.6:
if(selectLight->getSpotCutoff() < 180.0f) // spotlight, then we don't need the bounding box
{
osg::Vec3 position(lightpos.x(), lightpos.y(), lightpos.z());
float spotAngle = selectLight->getSpotCutoff();
_camera->setProjectionMatrixAsPerspective(spotAngle, 1.0, 0.1, 1000.0);
_camera->setViewMatrixAsLookAt(position,position+lightDir,osg::Vec3(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f));
}
===============================
// My modifications:
float fov = selectLight->getSpotCutoff() * 2;
if(fov < 180.0f) // spotlight, then we don't need the bounding box
{
osg::Vec3 position(lightpos.x(), lightpos.y(), lightpos.z());
_camera->setProjectionMatrixAsPerspective(fov, 1.0, 0.1, 1000.0);
_camera->setViewMatrixAsLookAt(position,position+lightDir,osg::Vec3(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f));
}
This change seems correct for spot cutoff in the range 0, 90, but since OpenGL doesn't claim to support cutoffs >90 && <180, I'm not sure how shadow map should deal with those cases, but ignoring spot cut off greater than 90 here seems reasonable to me.
"
> Using QOSGWidget - QWidget + osgViewer creating the graphics context.
>
> Windows Error #2000: [Screen #0] GraphicsWindowWin32::setWindow() - Unable
> to create OpenGL rendering context. Reason: The pixel format is invalid.
>
>
>
> And then the following fate error pops up:
>
>
>
> The instruction at "0x014c7ef1" referenced memory at "0x000000a4", The
> memory could not be "read".
>
> Click on Ok to terminate the program
>
> Click on CANCEL to debug the program
>
>
- adds display of options when using osgconv --formats.
- adds useGroupPerFeature option to have each feature in a separate group. Usage: OSG_OPTIMIZER=OFF osgconv -e ogr -O addGroupPerFeature <infile> <outfile>
"
osg::ColorMask* leftColorMask = _renderStageLeft->getColorMask();
if (!leftColorMask)
{
leftColorMask = new osg::ColorMask();
_renderStageLeft->setColorMask(leftColorMask);
^^^^ here it said right, I think this should be Left.
}
// ensure that right eye color planes are active.
osg::ColorMask* rightColorMask = _renderStageRight->getColorMask();
^^^^ similar here, I think this should be right
if (!rightColorMask)
{
rightColorMask = new osg::ColorMask();
_renderStageRight->setColorMask(rightColorMask);
}
and i further removed an unnecessary setColorMask."
CMakeLists.txt changes: "I installed latest Cmake(2.6.1) on a new machine and got a CMP008
warning from cmake. This fix set up osg to use the old behaviour which
have worked before. We might set this to NEW but I need to do more
testing first. I'l be able to test this on winxp with msvc80/90 and
ubuntu hardy with gcc-4.2.
quote from cmake cvs log
policy CMP0008 to decides how to treat full path libraries that do not
appear to be valid library file names. Such libraries worked by
accident in the VS IDE and Xcode generators with CMake 2.4 and below."
OsgMarcroUtils.cmake changes: "On Philips suggestion truncated a redundant if/else construction in
OsgMacroUtils to avoid developer warnings in cmake-2.6.1 concerning
cmake policy CMP0008 which allows full paths to libraries only with
valid library names
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mode. Nevertheless, the code doesn't acknowledge that, so I had problems with
debug versions of the library not being able to open their plugins whereas
the release versions worked fine.
I have made the same changes in Registry.cpp that are available for the rest
of platforms appending that "d" to their plugins. I have also updated the
CMakeLists.txt file to get "_DEBUG" defined at compilation time. I have
copied the already existent conditional block because of cmake's bizarre
operator precedence. Since Cygwin defines both CYGWIN and WIN32, the
following would suffice:
IF(CYGWIN OR UNIX AND NOT WIN32 AND NOT APPLE)
Sadly, it actually doesn't work, so I wrote a new conditional block just for
Cygwin. I could join the two blocks when the parentheses support is added in
newer versions of cmake."
polygon offset complicate. so i looked for a solution to remove this offset.
i changed the shader, also the filtering (default: on) use now a correct 3x3 filter:
1 0 1
0 2 0
1 0 1
div: 6
of course a better one would be
1 2 1
2 4 2
1 2 1
div: 16
but this isn't as performant as the simple filter above is. because we need only 5 texture lookups instead of 9, and the result is still good, if you wish we can add a enum to change the pcf filter type once, if there is a need.
testet on NVidia Quatro 570M and on ATI Radeon X1600
"
unfort. i couldn't test it on any ATI system. may there will be still another problem there. if there are still some artefacts. we should try out better fZOffSet value
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