(http://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg23098.html)
Background: when you access a file over HTTP, you cannot rely on a file extension being present; instead the file's mime-type is conveyed in the HTTP Content-Type response header. This facility adds a mime-type-to-extension map to the registry to handle this.
There are two new osgDB::Registry functions which are pretty self-explanatory:
void addMimeTypeExtensionMapping( mime-type, extension )
ReaderWriter* getReaderWriterForMimeType( mime-type )
I also added the file osgDB/MimeTypes.cpp which houses a hard-coded list of built-in types. I took the list from here (http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml) and then pared it down to include mostly image and video types, editing them to map to existing plugins where possible.
In addition, I updated the CURL plugin to a) install a set of built-in mime-type mappings, and b) use them to look up an extension in the event that the target filename does not have an extension.
Here is a test case. This URL pulls down a JPEG (without a file extension):
osgviewer --image "http://us.maps3.yimg.com/aerial.maps.yimg.com/ximg?v=1.8&s=256&t=a&r=1&x=0&y=0&z=2"
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Also, there was also a small bug in osgDB's CMakeLists.txt that was causing an error when I tested with CMake 2.4.4.
IF(${OSG_DEFAULT_IMAGE_PLUGIN_FOR_OSX} STREQUAL "quicktime")
was changed to
IF(OSG_DEFAULT_IMAGE_PLUGIN_FOR_OSX STREQUAL "quicktime")
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ADD_LIBRARY(${TARGET_TARGETNAME} MODULE ${TARGET_SRC} ${TARGET_H})
which gives them .so extensions. Since ".so" != ".dylib" osgDB::listAllAvailablePlugins finds no plug-ins. I believe the correct solution is to use CMAKE_SHARED_MODULE_SUFFIX instead. This builds and runs correctly on OS X but I have not tested on other platforms.
Attached is an updated src/osgDB/CMakeLists.txt based on rev 9915. The change is at line 108. To validate: build and then run bin/osgconv --formats. You should get many screenfuls of plug-in features, extensions and options."
Single features are implemented as bits asother enums in ReaderWriter class already does, so that combinations are possible and fast comparison operations are possible
By default all features are enabled.
I have added this virtual method to the dot plugin to get an idea how to use these features.
With this patch osgconv --formats shows an additional line 'features' for each plugin"
"Attached you'll find a proposal for using different
protocols. The idea behind the new code is:
1.) plugins/apps register protocols which they can handle. This is done
via osgDB::Registry::registerProtocol(aProtocolName). Plugins register
supported protocols as usual via ReaderWriter::supportsProtocol(..), the
Registry is updated accordingly.
2.) osgDB::containsServerAddress checks first for an appearance of "://"
in the filename and then checks the protocol against the set of
registered protocols via Registry::isProtocolRegistered(aProtocollName)
3.) the other getServer*-functions changed as well, there's even a
getServerProtocol-function
With these changes filenames/Urls get routed to loaded plugins even with
different protocols than 'http'."
osgText::Text and osgText::Text3D use the same font file.
The first really load the file and obtain an osgText::Font object,
the second use the cache created during the first load of the
font file, and so obtain an osgText::Font object instead of
osgText::Font3D object. To obtain an osgText::Font3D object,
osgText::Text3D call osgDB::readObjectFile(...) with an option
to specify the plugin we want an osgText::Font3D instead of
osgText::Font.
Generalised Problem:
In osgDB::Registry, loaded file cache is referenced by the name
of this file, so if I load a file with some options, and the cache
already contain object for this filename, I obtain an object
potentially not loaded with my options.
Behaviours:
Cache management is delegate to osgDB::Registry, but cache
coherence (load a file with option then reuse it, deactivate the
cache when load a specific file or don't cached the loaded file)
is user's responsibility.
Text3D solution:
Postfix the font file name by .text3d or something similar and then have the freetype plugin return
osgText::Font3D when it detects this.
This operation is done by osgText::readFont3DFile() which unsure the filename have .text3d as extension.
This is totaly transparent for user, and backward compatible.
BTW, I fix the bug about the Normal of 3D text. Currently, the front and wall face have
the same normal (0,0,1) in the Text3D object coordinate. Now the wall face have its own
normal array computed by the plugin.
BTW 2, I implement
- void Text3D::accept(osg::Drawable::ConstAttributeFunctor& af) const
- void Text3D::accept(osg::PrimitiveFunctor& pf) const
so now statistics are well reported.
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH so the XUL libs would be found) I noticed that although
the gecko plugin was found it could not be loaded. But this did not
trigger any visible warning/error message (at least not without INFO
notify level). Would you mind if we change the notify level for a
dlerror() to WARNING? This will also make it more explicit for the case
when a plugin isn't actually found, which seems to come up a lot for
novice users (e.g. no freetype on win32, so no freetype plugin, etc).
Also, the current error message is misleading ("Warning: Could not FIND
plugin to ...") because the it's not always a case of not finding the
plugin. I slightly enhanced the situation of not finding a plugin versus
finding it but not being able to load it.
Here's also a few fixes to some of the examples:
- osgfont: make usage help line more in line with the actual behaviour
- osgcompositeviewer: complain when no model file was provided
- osgmovie: don't include quicktime-dependent feature on Linux
- osgocclussionquery: comment addition (as I was surprised that lines
were being drawn in a function called createRandomTriangles())"
The code works fine as is if the format plugin is not already loaded in memory.
If a plugin is already in memory, say the PNG plugin for example, then a call to readImageFile("http://server.com/image.png") will return FILE_NOT_FOUND because osgDB::findDataFile will not be able to locate the file. So the Registry::read method is returning before the CURL plugin is given a chance to download the file.
I've made a few changes to the Registry to not return FILE_NOT_FOUND if the filename contains a URL that fix the issue."
I've made a small change to Registry.cpp that puts the CURL logic AFTER the URL has been passed to the plugin rather than assuming all URL's need to be downloaded by the CURL plugin. This way, plugins can have first crack at the URL's, and if they don't handle it the previous CURL behavior kicks in."
osgDB/FileUtils.cpp:
Needed this extra code to allow a true case-insensitive search. This is because the HL2 map and model files are often sloppy with case. For example, the file might look for materials/models/alyx/alyx_sheet.vtf, but the file is actually in materials/Models/Alyx/alyx_sheet.vtf. In case-insensitive mode, the new code recursively disassembles the path and checks each path element without regard to case. In case-sensitive mode, the code behaves exactly as it used to. The new code is also mostly skipped on Windows because of the case-insensitive file system. Previously, I did all of this with custom search code in the .bsp plugin, but this allows the user to tailor the search using OSGFILEPATH. There are some instructions in the plugins' README files about this.
osgPlugins/mdl:
This is a new plug-in for Half-Life 2 models (as opposed to maps). This allows you to load Source models individually, as well as allowing the .bsp plugin to load models (props) that are embedded into maps. Mdl files can contain simple object (crates, barrels, bottles), as well as fully articulated characters with skeletal animations. Currently, it can load the simple objects. It can also load the characters, but it can't load the skeletons or animations.
osgPlugins/bsp:
This contains all of the changes needed to load props along with the basic map geometry. There are also
several bugs fixed.
osgPlugins/vtf:
This is the loader for Valve's texture format. Previously, we had agreed to put this in with the bsp plugin, but I didn't think of the .mdl plugin at that time. It's conceivable that a user might want to load models individually (not as part of a map), so the vtf reader does have to be separate. I also fixed a rather significant bug.
I tested all of this code on RHEL 5.2 (32-bit), and Fedora 9 (64-bit). I'll be testing on Windows soon.
I also attached a simple .mdl file, along with it's associated files and textures. Just extract the tarball into it's own directory, set your OSGFILEPATH to point at that directory, and load the model like this:
osgviewer models/props_junk/gascan001a.mdl"
Set Made DatabasePager TargetMaximumNumberOfPageLOD technique the be the default with a default target number of PagedLOD of 500.
Set DatabasePager DoPreCompile to OFF by default.
I suggest moving the definition of OSG_DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH (which is responsible for this global rebuild) into osgDB/CMakeLists.txt which is the only library in the code where this definition is (and is likely ever to be) used. This way if the user changes it, only osgDB will rebuild."
a capping the number of PagedLOD to a sepcified maximum, with pruning of inactive
PagedLOD when the total number of inactive and active PagedLOD goes above the maximum.
To enable the mode set the env var OSG_MAX_PAGEDLOD to a value something like 1000.
