GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP_SGIS is very slow (over half a second for a 720*576
texture). However, glGenerateMipmapEXT() performs well (16ms for the
same texture), so I have modified the attached files to use
Texture::generateMipmap() if glGenerateMipmapEXT is supported, instead
of enabling & disabling GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP_SGIS."
Notes, from Robert Osfield, I've tested the out of the previous path using
GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP_SGIS and non power of two textures on NVidia 7800GT and
Nvidia linux drivers with the image size 720x576 and only get compile times
of 56ms, so the above half second speed looks to be a driver bug. With
Muchael's changes the cost goes done to less than 5ms, so it's certainly
an effective change, even given that Michael's poor expereiences with
GL_GENERATE_MIP_SGIS do look to be a driver bug.
now holds the dirty flag and enables/disables event traversal in response dirty
being set/unset. This allows terrain to be automatically updated in response
to Terrain scale and sample ratio changes.
- Solves issues of loading image data into the texture memory
- Print a warning if images are of different dimensions or have different internal formats (GL specification requires images to be the same)
Patch is tested and seems to work fine. It shouldn't break any other functionality. It should go into include/osg and src/osg
"
multi-threaded paging, where the Pager manages threads of reading local
and http files via seperate threads. This makes it possible to smoothly
browse large databases where parts of the data are locally cached while
others are on a remote server. Previously with this type of dataset
the pager would stall all paging while http requests were being served,
even when parts of the models are still loadable virtue of being in the
local cache.
Also as part of the refactoring the DatabaseRequest are now stored in the
ProxyNode/PagedLOD nodes to facilitate quite updating in the cull traversal,
with the new code avoiding mutex locks and searches. Previous on big
databases the overhead involved in make database requests could accumulate
to a point where it'd cause the cull traversal to break frame. The overhead
now is negligable.
Finally OSG_FILE_CACHE support has been moved from the curl plugin into
the DatabasePager. Eventually this functionality will be moved out into
osgDB for more general usage.
ReaderWriter::ReadResult now has a FILE_REQUEST enum.
ReaderWriter::Options now has a s/getAsynchronousFileReadHint() parameter methods.
libcurl based plugin now detects enabing of the AsynchronousFileReadHint, but
as yet does not handle async requests - handling everything syncronously.
DatabasePager now by default will enable AsynchronousFileReadHint for http
based file requests
avoid threading issues associated with compile running in a parallel with
update/cull on the first frame.
Also added automatic recompile when a new SceneData is applied to a View.
get an excess Tab key report when switching back to an OSG
application (usually FlightGear :-). Although KDE has consumed
the Tab, it's sometimes still in the XKeymapEvent's key_vector,
and followed by a Tab KeyRelease event.
Avoid this artifact by
- asking for a "fresh" keymap (via XQueryKeymap()), rather than
using the unreliable(?) XKeymapEvent's key_vector, and by
- flushing all key events on focus-in (to avoid the KeyRelease)
After Super-press, Tab-press, Super-release, Tab-release (note
the wrong release order!) I still get an extra Tab event. But
this is not surprising and not exactly wrong either. Also it's
hard to avoid, as we can't see what happened to the keyboard
before we regained focus.
Files changed:
src/osgViewer/GraphicsWindowX11.cpp
include/osgViewer/api/X11/GraphicsWindowX11"
It's implemented in the same way that 3D Spherical Display and Panoramic Spherical Display.
You can test it running:
osgviewer --wowvx-20 cow.osg
osgviewer --wowvx-42 cow.osg
depending on the size of your Philips WOWvx display (20" or 42")
Other arguments you can use to control the 3D effect are:
--wow-content <value>
This value defines the kind of content that can be:
0: No depth
1: Signage
2: Movie
3: CGI
4: Still
--wow-factor <value>
Percentage of the display recommended depth value. Default 64, Range [0-255]
--wow-offset <value>
Amount of range behind the screen. Default 128, Range [0-255]
0: Range is shifted in the direction of the viewer.
128: Range is equally divided in front and behind the screen.
255: Range is shifted away from the viewer.
"
from: DEEP_COPY_STATESETS = 8,
to: DEEP_COPY_STATESETS = 1<<3,
showing clearly that this isn't the _value_ 8, but the _bit_ 8. this is an old pattern i see (and like to promulgate) to make code a bit more readable and maintainable.
"
From Robert Osfield, refactored the FrameBufferObejcts::_drawBuffers set up so that its done
within the setAttachment method to avoid potential threading/execution order issues.
hyper keys defined already, but these modifiers were missing in
GUIEventAdapter::ModKeyMask, and the EventQueue ingored them as well.
The attached diff/archive adds the missing parts for Super/Hyper
modifier key support.
I'm aware that this might not be supported on all systems/keyboards
out of the box, but decided to submit it anyway because:
- developers are aware of differences between input devices
(Some mice have scroll wheels, others don't. Some have five or
more buttons, some have only one. Some keyboards don't have
numpads, some have AltGr, some don't etc.)
- even if someone relies on Hyper/Super in distributed software,
this is easy to fix and doesn't create lock-in conditions
- while the names Hyper/Super may only be common on X11, they are
just symbol names and not OS-specific
- even though some systems might not offer these additional modifiers
by default, it's likely that all of them have at least 8 modifier
levels internally, so it should only be a matter of OS configuration
to make them work
- having super/hyper available is useful to offer a user ways
to define local key definitions that are safe from collisions with
predefined "official" key assignments"
Introduced code in BoundgingSphere, BoundingBox, ProxyNode and LOD to utilise the above settings.
Added Matrix::value_type, Plane::value_type, BoundingSphere::value_type and BoundingBox::value_type command line
options that report where the types of floats or doubles.
This change has been done to make it easier for OpenSceneGraph users to check out the svn via https
without any conflicts introduced with a http externals.
as not expiring subgraphs quick enough to enable reasonable load balancing.
New version isn't perfect and will need further work, but does at least reduce
the memory footprint by as much as half on test paths on big databases.
The rewritten method no longer uses the the MaximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs
and MinimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs variables so these and associated methods
for accessing them have been removed.
- /** Set the maximum number of PagedLOD child to remove per frame */
- void setMaximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs(unsigned int number) { _maximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs = number; }
-
- /** Get the maximum number of PagedLOD child to remove per frame */
- unsigned int getMaximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs() const { return _maximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs; }
-
- /** Set the minimum number of inactive PagedLOD child to keep */
- void setMinimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs(unsigned int number) { _minimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs = number; }
-
- /** Get the minimum number of inactive PagedLOD child to keep */
- unsigned int getMinimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs() const { return _minimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs; }
key, but it didn't pick up the initial state. So, if NumLock was on for
the OS at startup (LED on), it was still off for OSG. And the first
keypress turned the LED off, and NumLock on for OSG. The attached fix
picks up the state on every FocusIn, just like it was done in the last
commits for CapsLock. The difference is, that the NumLock mask isn't
standardized (e.g. 0x10 for Linux, and 0x80 for AIX), so we have to do
a reverse lookup (::rescanModifierMapping()).
Note that I could not reproduce the problem on my system, but someone
else confirmed it twice on his, and the patch fixed it for him.
Changed files:
./include/osgViewer/api/X11/GraphicsWindowX11
./src/osgViewer/GraphicsWindowX11.cpp
"
and a new scheme for computing the scaling when using autoscale that introduces smooth
transitions to the scaling of the subgraph so that it looks more natural.
help manage the scaling of particles, whether they should be relative to the
local coordiante frame of the particle system, or be in world coordinates.
It sets osgGA's keymask when restoring keys on FocusIn, according
to the state values of XKeyEvent and XCrossingEvent. (These are
the only source for X11's current capslock state that avoids
pulling in the XKB extension.)
"
osgViewer::StatsHandler and other handlers which allow you to change the
key(s) you would press to get them to do something. Pretty simple change
but useful in our context and possibly in others too."
The win32 pbuffer implementation returned an error unless both the
WGL_ARB_pbuffer and the WGL_ARB_render_texture functions were present.
This was too restrictive, as a pbuffer can usefully be created without
render-to-texture, e.g. for use with glReadPixels. The osg 1.2/Producer
pbuffers worked without RTT, and osgUtil::RenderStage has all the code to
handle both RTT and non-RTT pbuffers, doing a read and copy in the
latter case.
With these changes I have successfully tested the osgprerender example
on a graphics card which supports RTT, and one which doesn't. Plus
tested in my own application.
In order to aid diagnostics I have also added more function status
return checks, and associated error messages. I have included the win32
error text in all error messages output. And there were some errors
with multi-threaded handling of "bind to texture" and a temporary window
context which I have corrected.
These is one (pre-existing) problem with multi-threaded use of pbuffers
in osgViewer & osgprerender, which I have not been able to fix. A win32
device context (HDC) can only be destroyed from the thread that created
it. The pbuffers for pre-render cameras are created in
osgUtil::RenderStage::runCameraSetUp, from the draw thread. But
closeImplementation is normally invoked from the destructor in the main
application thread. With the additional error messages I have added,
osgprerender will now output a couple of warnings from
osgViewer::PixelBufferWin32::closeImplementation() at exit, after
running multi-threaded on windows. I think that is a good thing, to
highlight the problem. I looked into fixing it in osgViewer::Renderer &
osgUtil::RenderStage, but it was too involved for me. My own
application requirements are only single-threaded.
Unrelated fix - an uninitialised variable in
osg::GraphicsThread::FlushDeletedGLObjectsOperation().
"
remain in pressed state after revealing, even if they are no
longer pressed on the keyboard. This can have bad effects,
especially if the stuck keys are modifier keys. One has to
press and release the stuck keys again to reset the wrong state.
The fix keeps track of all key presses and releases. On FocusOut
and UnmapNotify it releases all keys that are in pressed state,
and on KeymapNotify (following a FocusIn), it sets the currently
pressed keys again. To avoid confusion in the OSG-using application
normal keys are always reported released /before/ and pressed
/after/ modifier keys.
As current key states are returned as char[32] keymap by
XQueryKeymap and XKeymapEvent, this format is also used to
recognize modifier keys and for maintaining the current
internal key state. Functions to set/clear/query bits in
such a keymap are added.
The patch was extensively tested with osgkeyboard and
FlightGear under KDE and fvwm2. It was not tested on a
Xinerama setup or with multiple windows, but as _eventDisplay
is used throughout, there should be no problems. The patch also
makes the following changes:
- removes old and obsolete handling of modifier keys in ::adaptKey().
This wasn't only unused, but also wrong (and for that reason commented
out in revision 7066). The modifier states are actually handled
in ./src/osgGA/EventQueue.cpp (EventQueue::keyPress/keyRelease).
- fixes some spelling"
The modifications I made are very small but they are absolutely usefull to use osgIntrospection with visual studio 7.1 or 8 in debug modes.
This should also solve other minor common problems (converter memory leak, virtual destructor for PropertyInfo, etc...).
I choosed two function names : Reflection::uninitialize() and Type::reset(), this can of course be changed if someone has a better idea...
I made the changes against OSG 2.2.0 public release. I tested the result with VS 7.1, VS 7.1 SP1, VS 8.0 SP1 and AQTime 5.0 on Windows XP SP2... All 4 seem to agree : they detected memory leaks before and don't anymore.
Sorry I haven't take the time to test that on linux but the changes are so small I doubt there could be a problem... I let you check that on your side :-).
I hope this will help making OSG an even more wonderfull library."
Attached is a fixed version of OverlayNode.cpp. I fixed CustomPolytope::cut( osg::Plane ) method. Bug was apparent in such scenario:
Let P1 be some random frustum polytope
Let P2 be the polytope that was created from P1 bounding box (P2 contains P1 entirely)
Then ignoring precision errors: P1.cut( P2 ) == P2.cut( P1 ) == P1. But this condition was not always met. Cut failed when some of the polytope reference points happened to lie exactly on some intersecting planes in both P1 & P2 (plane distance was = 0).
I only use CustomPolytope for my shadowing stuff so I did not test how this affects rest of OverlayNode.cpp.
----2----
Also attached is a minor precision improvement for osg::Plane intersect method (double version).
----3----
I have also one observation regarding osg::Plane - There are two intersect vertices methods (float and double flavour):
inline int intersect(const std::vector<Vec3>& vertices) const
inline int intersect(const std::vector<Vec3d>& vertices) const
I guess osg::Plane won't compile when someone changes default vec3 typedef to vec3d. Shouldn't the first method be changed to use vec3f explicitly ? Ie:
inline int intersect(const std::vector<Vec3f>& vertices) const"
pbuffer functions or exactly ask for the extensions we need to call the
apropriate glx extension functions for and around pbuffers extensions.
The glx 1.3 version of this functios are prefered. If this is not pressent we
are looking for the glx extensions and check for them.
Prevously we just used some mix of the glx 1.3 functions or the extension
functions without making sure that this extension is present.
"
carbon-implementation of GraphicsWindow. Now you can use an AGLDrawable
in conjunction with osgViewer/osgCompositeViewer."
Changes from Robert Osfield, changed std::cout to osg::notify(osg::INFO)
creating subclasses of osg::Array that referenced data
stored an application's internal data structures. I took
a stab at implementing that and ran into a couple of
downcasts in Geometry.cpp. Enclosed is my take at fixing
those along with a simple example of how to do this."
in the DatabasePager. The practical effects of these are to greatly reduce startup time
and the time to load an individual scenery tile in FlightGear.
- From my log message:
Minimize the number of StateSets and drawables that are compiled by checking
if they have already been compiled or will be elminated by the
SharedStateManager.
Move the sorting of the dataToCompile queue out of compileGLObjects
into the man pager run function.
Change the SharedStateManager to use maps instead of vectors."
StateSet::removeAssociatedModes(const StateAttribute*)
and a
StateSet::removeAssociatedTextureModes(unsigned, const StateAttribute*)
call. These funktions are just missing for a complete api IMO."
file. The code works well but the SectorPlacer comments stayed in the new
file. I have altered those comments so they now contain valid information for
the BoxPlacer class and the doxygen generated documentation is correct.
"
CullVisitor/SceneView:
*Feature: This version supports multiple clearnodes in the graph, one per renderstage.
Text:
*Feature: Performance Enhancement when calling SetBackdropColor
Material:
*Fix: OpenGL calls are now made according to the OpenGL Standard
"
enhanced version of PolytopeIntersector.
New features of PolytopeIntersector :
* Dimension mask: The user may specify the dimensions of the
primitives to be tested. Checking polytope-triangle and
polytope-quad intersections is rather slow so this can
be turned off.
* Reference plane: The resulting intersections are sorted
by the distance to this plane.
New memebers of PolytopeIntersector::Intersection :
* distance: Distance of localIntersectionPoint to the reference plane
* maxDistance: Maximum distance of all intersectionPoints to the
reference plane.
* intersectionPoints: The points intersecting the planes of the polytope
or points completely inside the polytope.
* localIntersectionPoint: arithmetic mean of all intersection points
* primitiveIndex: Index of the primitive that intersected
I added some more output to the example osgkeyboardmouse."
highlighted problems with Light, ClipPlane and Hint usage in osg::State's usage of cloneType
and reassignment of target/num in StateSet/these StateAttributes.
- Get or set the target number of PagedLOD children to remove per frame.
- Get or set the minimum number of inactive PagedLOD to keep.
Corresponding environment variables have been added too.
The default values reproduce the previous DatabasePager behavior."
- set the resolution of the shadow map; it calls dirty() to
re-initialize at next update
- keep a list of Shader objects to use instead of the default ones, if
the list is empty, the default shaders are used
- explicitly create the Uniform variables, so that subsequent additions
that require more Uniforms can put them in a central place
- set a Light or LightSource to use explicitly for shadow casting,
allows multiple lights in the scene, with one casting shadows
There are two additions that do not ( yet ) function correctly, but in
the present usage they do not interfere with the regular usage of the
techique:
- support for using spotlights, it's using Light.spotCutoff to determine
if it's a spot-light and not point-light,
there is an error in the setup of either the shadow camera or the
texgen, most likely due to the direction of the spotlight, since the
position is being used just like in point or directional lights.
- creation of a debugHUD
the hud is created properly, ( the example included shows it ), but
it displays only white, there has been some discussion of displaying the
shadow map, but I could not find it, the addition of a simple fragment
shader with the appropriate color transform should get this going."
attached code adds this, along with a member variable to keep track of
the setting. It is based on the latest subversion version, and was
tested by creating a new text object with the same axis alignment as an
existing one (e.g.
new_text->setAxisAlignment(old_text->getAxisAlignment()); )."
From Robert Osfield, " I originally didn't add a getAxisAlignment()
as all setAxisAlignment does is set the Rotation member variable, and
potentially one could apply user defined Rotation setting after the
setAxisAlignment() which would bring it out of sync with the
setAxisAlignment.
Rather than reject your submission on the ground of potentially
getting out of sync and therefore misleading users I've added a
USED_DEFINED_ROTATION to AxisAlignment enum, and set this in the
serRotation and then override this setting of _axisAlignment in the
setAxisAlingment method. I've also removed the lazy updating
optimization you've added to the top of setAxisAlignment to avoid
potential problems as well."
I've done some additional small modification regarding constness in ReaderWriter and added
mutable on _pluginData so passing data back would be possible too.
Have updated the collada plugin (ReaderWriterDAE.cpp) to use the map to handle options and
have attached the changes.
The stuff in daeReader.h and daeWriter.h are just cosmetic changes to get rid of a warning."
"This is a fix for the issue reported by Anders a week ago (see \u201c[osg-users] BUG?: mouse coordinate changes after window move\u201d discussion thread on Sept. 20). The issue was that the initial implementation added a few months back was not converting the window coordinates to client-area coordinates resulting in a slight offset each time a decorated window was moved (caused by the window border). This was also causing windows to move out of their assigned screen."
and
"Attached is a fix for the taskbar repaint issue that occurs when a graphics window is toggled from full-screen mode to windowed mode (as identified by Gert van Maren a couple of weeks ago).
Also included is a fix derived from the \u201cEvents from the past\u201d discussion thread that took place on July 11."
(a) some objects behind the camera can cast shadow
(b) object aboive the camera can cast shadow
then i fixed the shadow map orientation, now screen x coordinate alinged which improve the quality"
- GL2Extensions, Program and Program.cpp
Features:
- Support for fragment output binding. (e.g. You can now specify in the fragment shader varying out vec3 fragOut; fragOut = vec3(1,0,1); to write to the fragOut variable. In your program you call glBindFragDataLocation(program, 1, "fragOut") to bind the fragOut variable with the MRT 1 - GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT1_EXT)
- new methods Program::add/removeBindFragDataLocation Program::getFragDataBindingList
"
- Implementation of integer textures as in EXT_texture_integer
- setBorderColor(Vec4) changed to setBorderColor(Vec4d) to pass double values
as border color. (Probably we have to provide an overloading function to
still support Vec4f ?)
- new method Texture::getInternalFormatType() added. Gives information if the
internal format normalized, float, signed integer or unsigned integer. Can
help people to write better code ;-)
"
Futher changes to this submission by Robert Osfield, changed the dirty mipmap
flag into a buffer_value<> vector to ensure safe handling of multiple contexts.
local function pointer to avoid compiler warnings related to case void*.
Moved various OSG classes across to using setGLExtensions instead of getGLExtensions,
and changed them to use typedef declarations in the headers rather than casts in
the .cpp.
Updated wrappers
"A new texture class Texture2DArray derived from
Texture extends the osg to support the new
EXT_texture_array extensions. Texture arrays provides
a feature for people interesting in GPGPU programming.
Faetures and changes:
- Full support for layered 2D textures.
- New uniform types were added (sampler2DArray)
- FrameBufferObject implementation were changed to
support attaching of 2D array textures to the
framebuffer
- StateSet was slightly changed to support texture
arrays. NOTE: array textures can not be used in fixed
function pipeline. Thus using the layered texture as a
statemode for a Drawable produce invalid enumerant
OpenGL errors.
- Image class was extended to support handling of
array textures
Tests:
I have used this class as a new feature of my
application. It works for me without problems (Note:
Texture arrays were introduced only for shading
languages and not for fixed function pipelines!!!).
RTT with Texture2DArray works, as I have tested them
as texture targets for a camera with 6 layers/faces
(i.e. replacement for cube maps). I am using the array
textures in shader programming. Array textures can be
attached to the FBO and used as input and as output."
stereo format to work. It's a good thing I tested these on a TV
before submitting them since I did indeed have a bug. One thing I
did not test was to see how this would work in windowed mode. Does
the interlaced stereo code have support for 'absolute' positions?
For example a given pixel on the screen is always shown in a given
eye no matter where the graphics context is placed?
"
geometrytechnique in submethods to made more easy the inheritance
between the user and osg-class. This is a first step to add more
functions in osgTerrain. Maybe the subdivision of the method have to
be in the terraintechnique because is the base class of
GeometryTechnique. If Robert or anyone think that this is better i
change this class too."
"I have adapted to osgShadow the soft shadow map technique described in "Efficient Soft-Edged Shadows Using Pixel Shader Branching" by Yury Uralsky, Chapter 17 of GPU Gems 2 (Matt Pharr ed. Addison-Wesley).
Here is my code in attachment: basically, it works in the same way as osgShadow/ShadowMap (core code is copied from it) but implements a specific GLSL shader for the soft rendering of penumbra.
I have tested it under Linux with a NVidia graphic card, but there should be no dependency on platform nor on the graphics driver (as far as they support GLSL 2). Screenshots attached show the current results (frame rate bound to v-sync, but the shader takes actually not much time)."
to the view to be done during syncronous updateTraversal().
This feature can be used for doing things like merging subgraphs that have been loaded
in a background thread.
I just add ReinterpretCastConverter in the Reflector to convert void* in T* and T* in void*
files joint :
OpenSceneGraph/include/osgIntrospection/Reflector // modified file
OpenSceneGraph/src/osgIntrospection/Reflector.cpp // modified file
"
multiple GraphicsWindows, this singleton is accessable via GUIEventEvent::getAccumulatedEventState().
Added use of this new singleton in GraphicsWindow* implementations.
Added WindowSizeHandler to osgkeyboard to help with debugging of event state
between windows.
Created a new GraphicsThread subclass from OperationThread which allows the
GraphicsContext specific calls to be moved out of the base OperationThread class.
Updated the rest of the OSG to respect these changes.
Added and cleaned up DeleteHandler calls in osgViewer to help avoid crashes on exit.
Changed DatabasePager across to dynamically checcking osg::getCompileContext(..)
Updated wrappers.
"
Found in the join file the fix for the bug found by Rafa.
Problem :
osgIntrospection::Value grp(new osg::Group);
osgIntrospection::ValueList vlcall;
vlcall.push_back(osgIntrospection::Value("toto"));
const osgIntrospection::MethodInfo *m =
grp->getType.getCompatibleMethod("setName", vlcall, true);
if (m)
{
m->invoke(grp, vlcall); // ** SEGFAULT here
}
Algorithm explanation :
The "invoke" method try to convert "grp", which reflect an
"osg::Group*", in a
"osgIntrospection::Value", which reflect a "osg::Node*".
This because
the "setName(const char *)" method found by
"grp->getType.getCompatibleMethod"
is an "osg::Object" type method.
When osgIntrospection do this conversion it try :
- to found a "osgIntrospection::Converter" to convert
from "osg::Group*" to "osg::Node*"
- to found a chain of "osgIntrospection::Converter" to convert
from "osg::Group*" to "one or many type" to "osg::Node*"
- to converte an Enum to int or unsigned int
- to convert the value in its "value string representation",
then converte this string in the destination value
Else it throw a "TypeConversionException".
Bug :
1)
When osgIntrospection try to found a chain of
"osgIntrospection::Converter"
It could do any downcast or (Type to SuperType) or upcast
(SuperType to Type).
This mean the the chain could be :
osg::Group to osg::Transform to osg::Camera to
osg::CullSettings to osg::CullStack to
osg::CollectOccludersVisitor to
osg::NodeVisitor to osg::Referenced to osg::Object
During the convertion with this chain, A METTRE failed and
the pointer in
"grp" is set NULL. But the "grp" is always a valid
"osgIntrospection::Value"
and so, osgIntrospection accept the conversion. Then it try
to use this pointer
to call the "setName" function. And Bing SEGFAULT.
2)
In "bool Reflection::accum_conv_path( ... )"
the convection path isn't accumulate in the recursive loop.
this cause multi request of a conversion path, and a
slowdown in the
conversion algorithm.
3)
Use of the last conversion way in a conversion from
pointer to pointer
this mean you can do this :
"osg::Node*" to " value string representation" to "osg::Material*"
What a bad thing !!!
Solution :
1)
Introduce the concept of dynamic_cast and static_cast.
now, to do a conversion, osgIntrospection does this :
- to found a "osgIntrospection::Converter" to convert
from "osg::Group*" to "osg::Node*"
- to found a chain of "osgIntrospection::Converter" to convert
from "osg::Group*" to "one or many type" to "osg::Node*"
only with static_cast, downcast (Type to SuperType)
- to found, if the source and the destination are two pointer,
a chain of "osgIntrospection::Converter" to convert
from "osg::Group*" to "one or many type" to "osg::Node*"
only with dynamic_cast, upcast (SuperType to Type)
- to convert an Enum to int or to unsigned int
- to convert the value in its "value string representation",
then convert this string in the destination value
Else it throw a "TypeConversionException".
Add the "enum CastType" to distinguish the static_cast or
dynamic_cast converter.
Add file OpenSceneGraph/include/osgIntrospection/CastType
2)
add a line to accumulate converter in converter Path.
3)
add a line to check if source and destination are pointer.
"
