Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of visual_object

Timestamp:

Apr 10, 2010, 11:47:16 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Torben Dannhauer

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visual_object

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 == Introduction ==
 
-All objects in the 3D scene are objects, with fixed or dynamic position. An visual_object can be positioned in latitude, longitude and altitude, as well in rotations along all three axis.
-By assigning a 3D modell to an visual_object, the Model is visible in the scene and can be freely positioned.
+All objects in the 3D scene are nodes of the scenegraph. Besides the object management via controlling all object nodes manually, osgVisual provides a module for objects with convenience function for common tasks.
 
-Basically, a visual_object is a simple Matrixtransform which has the geometry as childnode.
+The module "visual_object" allows to manage objects in the scene, with fixed or dynamic position. An visual_object can be positioned in latitude, longitude and altitude, as well in rotations along all three axis.
+The object itself is not visible, it only provides the functions for managing the object. By adding text labels or geometries, it is visible in the scene.
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+== Overview Convenience Functions ==
 
 visual_object provides the following convenience variables / functions for simple usage of objects in osgVisual:
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  * scaling along all 3 axis
  * loading/unloading 3D geometry
- * setting geometry offset, if 3D model has wrong axis orientation
- * camera translation offset (on node attached camera manipulator)
- * camera attitude offset (on node attached camera manipulator)
+ * setting geometry offset rotation, if 3D model has wrong axis orientation
+ * setting geometry offset translation, if 3D model has wrong coordinate frame origin
+ * setting camera translation offset (used by node attached camera manipulator)
+ * setting camera attitude offset (used by node attached camera manipulator)
  * adding/removing object_updater 
- * setting/clearing label (todo)
+ * adding/removing label (to implement)
+
+== Technical Implementation ==
+
+This description does not replace the dive into the sourceode, it should give you only a short overview how it works.
+Please read the doxygen documentation as reference for all function calls: http://www.osgvisual.org/notyetpublished
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+
+Basically, a visual_object is a simple Matrixtransform which has the geometry as childnode.
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+
 
 == Object updater ==