[Ves] Ask about Shadow Effect in VES (iOS Application)

[Aashish Chaudhary]

Hi there,

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Sweet Tian <sweettian1231 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I'm developping an iOS Application using vtk to implement 3D model
> building.
> And I want to add a shadow to the whole model.
> I was trying the example on the link page (
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/Shadows).
>
> However I failed to compile the source code in Xcode.
> I had the following problems:
> *1)    **Unable find the header "vtkOpenGLRenderer", and other similar 14
> headers.*
>         I found these header are included in the
> "VTK6.0.0/Rendering/OpenGL/" , but I can't find it in vtk.framework
>         which is inported into xCode.
>
> *2)    Unable find the header "vtkRenderingOpenGLModule.h" *        I
> could not find neither the header file and the C++ file in the VTK6.0.0.
>

you cannot use vtk rendering module in ves yet. Also, the shadow work in
vtk is complex and may not be the best choice given
the mobile world.

>
>
> PS :  All I want to do is add shadow to my model in iOS.
>         By the way, can I do it with vtk?
>

short answer is no.


>         I will appraciate if you can give me some advises.
>         Thank you.
>

you can (try) implement a shadow map in ves (hopefully without much
difficulty).  I can help you with it if you are willing to do the major
work.

- Aashish

>
>
> Sweet Tian
>
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