Motivation ;
When using PagedLODs, you don't always know the real size of loaded children,
If it occurs that they are out of predefined bounds, picking on the parts that are out of bound will fail
They also can be culled out too soon.
The problem often occurs with long object (roads).
I've modified LOD and ProxyNode to include this option."
and later email:
"Attached the UNION_OF_BOUNDING_SPHERE_AND_USER_DEFINED version
There are impacts on some serializers (dae, osgWrapper).
I haven't modified deprecated osg, since it's deprecated"
Other changes in this sumbission include the added ability to tessellate polygons in Collada reader, with appropriate options.
- No tessellation
- Tessellate as triangle fan (previous behaviour, kept as default for backward-compatibility)
- Full tessellation
I also put auto_ptr<> for RAII of DAE structure (as discussed), and moved reader options in a structure, as for the writer.
Code also make use of osgDB::ExternalFileWriter I submitted, so please merge this submission after the PluginImageWriter one.
osgAnimation. It's been tested with the majority of the samples in the
COLLADA test repository and works with all of them either as well as, or
better than, the version of the plugin currently in SVN.
Known issue: vertex animation (AKA morphing) doesn't work at present,
but that's a relatively unpopular method of animating so it's not high
on my priority list."
Follow up email:
"I've been informed that the previous DAE submission didn't build on
unix, so here's the submission again with the fixes. Thanks to Gregory Potdevin and Benjamin Bozou.
Also, my apologies to Roland for not crediting his part in making DAE
animation happen, my work was indeed built on top of his work. Thanks
also to Marius Heise and of course Cedric Pinson."
Changes by Robert Osfield, fixed compile issues when compile without C* automatic conversion enabled in ref_ptr<>
and constructor initialization fixes to address some warnings under gcc.
-Changed the addition of lights to add the lightsource directly into the scenegraph (instead of below a switch node)
-All added lights are enabled in the root stateset and replace the head- or skylight.
(if no lights are available the head- or skylight will remain active)
-Ambient in osg::LightModel is zeroed out. All ambient now comes from separate ambient only light sources.
-Lights can now be written properly
-Replaced strings by constants defined in the Collada DOM"
A Collada camera will be added to the scenegraph as osg::CameraView. This allows the user to create a set of predefined camera viewpoints. I also added a new MatrixManipulator to osgGA called CameraViewSwitchManipulator and added usage of this to the osgviewer example. This manipulator allows switching between the predefined camera viewpoints. The current design limition I ran into is that a MatrixManipulator only manipulates the ViewMatrix, but for this particular manipulator I also want to update the projectionMatrix of the camera when switching to a new viewpoint. This is not implemented because I don't know what would be the best way to design it. Any ideas?
Furthermore Collada also supports orthographic camera's, where an osg::CameraView only supports a perspective camera. Would it be useful to create a CameraView with customizable optics for this?"
New features
+Read and write of osg::LOD, osg::Switch, osgSim::Sequence, osgim::MultiSwitch and osgSim::DOFTransform data in <extra>
+Read and write of osg::Node description data in <extra>
+Plugin option "NoExtras" to prevent writing of <extra> data and only traverse the active children when saving
Changes/additions
+instanced_geometry and instanced_controller are now loaded in a single Geode with multiple Geometries instead of multiple geodes with a single Geometry
+Changed all calls to the deprecated createAndPlace() to the new add() methods
+All transformation elements <scale>, <rotate>, <translate>, <lookat>, <matrix>, <skew> are now concatenated properly in to a single MatrixTransform.
Previously this was not done in order as required by Collada and and not all elements were included.
+Complete skew matrix creation
+Automatically add GL_RESCALE_NORMAL if scale is non-identity
+Blinn shininess remapping to [0,128] when in range [0,1]
+Changes to CMake file to make it compile on Windows
+Coding style and code documentation
Bug fixes
+Transparent texture writing fixed
+Fixed bug in using osg node name as collada node ID
+Fixed usage of double sided faces in GOOGLEEARTH extra
+Not adding blendfunc and blendcolor when opaque
TODO/Wishlist
-solve differences in drawables, DAE reader should place multiple collation elements into multiple primitivesets in a single geometry where possible (only when same material)
-solve differences in matrices
-multitexture support
-skinned mesh and generic animations using osgAnimation
-profile_GLSL based on COLLADA OpenGL Effects Viewer http://ati.amd.com/developer/rendermonkey/downloads.html
-handling more <extra> to more closely mimic the intended lighting"
