Hi Philip, Thanks for the note. I did not know that ArcGIS Explorer was fully released yet, i just heard about it as beta last year. I spent some time to...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 4, 2008 10:41 pm
If humans need sleep, shouldn't vterrain ? ... Actually, this (serious) question stems from integrating vterrain's functionality into an existing mfc/opengl...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 5, 2008 12:43 am
Bryan, The short answer is yes, vtlib applications can sleep. In fact, it's entirely up to your own event handling, which is in your own app. There are many...
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gtafricke
Apr 7, 2008 7:26 am
Hi, I finally got around to testing the web plugin. I think it's quite promising. For future development we should have in mind to maybe use web services like...
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Roger James
rogerjames99
Apr 7, 2008 1:43 pm
Ben, Here is my first pass at rendering buildings with holes. I have not checked it in as there is a major hack in ...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 7, 2008 8:09 pm
Hi, I need to add a 2D image to the 3D terrain (migrating from 2D terrain to 3D terrain - eventually we will have a 3D object). I've been looking at enviro and...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 7, 2008 8:36 pm
Oh and I forgot to mention that I need to this from code, ie not load an object from a configuration file. This is because the location of the object will...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 8, 2008 1:36 am
... If this is a dynamic image which does not cover the entire terrain, then i recommend to use an Image Layer. ... mfcEnviro is old historical code, from back...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 9, 2008 11:06 pm
Hi, So for starters I've been trying to add an image as a texture to a cube. (not sure if this is the best approach, as my goal is to end up with a flat image,...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 10, 2008 10:25 am
A company called GeoSim, which produced a 3D model of downtown Philadelphia back in 2005, has now released it online as a 'virtual experience': ...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 10, 2008 5:16 pm
Hi again, So I actually need to correct what I was asking about (after I was corrected lol) We need an icon, not a 3D model, on the scene, Something like: ...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 11, 2008 8:13 am
Bryan, Your code below looks good. The only trouble i see is that your mesh has no texture coordinates, so the texture can't be applied. To fix: << vtMesh...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 11, 2008 8:16 am
If you only need to draw a 2D bitmap, then put it under a HUD node (vtHUD). The Enviro code shows how to do this: it uses the HUD for the compass, overview...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 11, 2008 8:50 am
... Yes, the Save Layer command will save structure layers, including linear structures. ... I just tested it, and it worked fine: saving, reloading and...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 11, 2008 9:17 am
... IMHO, for future development we could and should enable network IO in place of file IO; no new protocols or file formats are needed. HTTP should suffice,...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 12, 2008 8:35 am
Also, I've been looking at: http://vterrain.org/Doc/import_models.html on importing 3D models. If I could load a 2d image, and store it as a node, that could...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 12, 2008 8:35 am
Hi, I might not have explained this correctly. I want to add a 2D image to my scene, but not have it be part of the terrain, but rather stick out (almost like...
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gtafricke
Apr 14, 2008 7:29 am
Hi, I did another test and it looks like the fences are not displayed upon loading the corresponding layer as soon as structure paging is turned on. I'll send...
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Brent Fraser
fraser_brent_w
Apr 14, 2008 5:22 pm
Ben (and all), Here's a related doc from the FOSS4G in Victoria last year: http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/v3/en-us/final_pdfs/plum.pdf with some comments...
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Bryan Berg
bberg@...
Apr 16, 2008 7:44 pm
Okay so in google earth its called a placemark. So the icon or 2D-bitmap is placed on the scene at a specific location (lat-long for example), and when the...
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Mehdi Samir
mehdy.samir@...
Apr 16, 2008 11:03 pm
hi.i'm a young engineer.and i start working with vtp .i want to show from a dted format a 3D view but i don't know how to do.if any can help can her.thanks ...
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Roger James
rogerjames99
Apr 17, 2008 7:02 pm
Bryan, The simplest way would be for you to use a simple 3d modeller such as ac3d and make a single rectangular surface and attach your image to it as a ...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 17, 2008 9:09 pm
Samir, I recommend to start with the VTP Tutorial 1. Once you are comfortable with the process of loading terrain, then try it with your DTED file. As a...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 17, 2008 9:19 pm
... If you want to implement GE-style floating icons, i would recommend making a simple quad mesh and putting the texture on it. You then have two choices for...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 17, 2008 9:21 pm
Using a 3d modeler just to make a textured quad of 4 vertices seems overkill to me. Also, if he loads from an external file, it would be difficult to assign...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 17, 2008 10:18 pm
Lars, Ah, it is an issue with structure paging. That is the important bit of info missing from your problem report. I tested paging + linear structures just...
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Mehdi Samir
mehdy.samir@...
Apr 18, 2008 11:58 am
hi. I have two question to pose. if some one can give me the answers 1- I want to know if somebody arrive to turn VTP with another 3D engine specially OGRE3D...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Apr 19, 2008 3:24 am
Samir, ... Delta3D is similar in scope to VTP; it sits on top of OSG and adds a variety of functionality. It would not make sense to put Delta on top of VTP,...
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Mehdi Samir
mehdy.samir@...
Apr 20, 2008 1:41 am
hi My probleme is to implement a library in OGRE to let its read dted format this is my problem ;therfor taht will be very difficult to do it for this reason...
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stephan_heigl
Apr 20, 2008 5:58 am
Ogre is no general purpose scenegraph like OSG or OpenSG but a 3d engine targeted at games. Writing an VTP backend for it is not good idea in my opinion since...
