[Paraview-developers] Do I need parallel rendering to enable head tracking?

[Nikhil Shetty]

Hi Alexis,

It looks during an API cleanup the headPose was changed to
EyeTransormMatrix. The the accessor method to set/get the position are
Set/GetEyePosition()

-Nikhil

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Alexis Chan <alexisc at cs.unc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Nikhil
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, because I don't see the HeadPose in
> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/Rendering/Core/vtkCamera.cxx
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Nikhil Shetty <nikhil.shetty at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Alexix,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Alexis Chan <alexisc at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I want to enable head tracking via ParaView VR Plugin . Previously, I
>>> just programmatically set the headpose via vtkCamera.  I noticed the
>>> headpose code has been removed from vtkCamera in
>>> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/commit/36bbe763006fdb077a9b9f749d711f9230f8ff96#Rendering/vtkCamera.cxx
>>> and moved to vtkSynchronizedRenderers.cxx
>>> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/commit/87cec5d0f2ea7669dbed0ce28a2f504eda3569c0
>>>
>>>
>>> So to enable head tracking in the latest code base from
>>> https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView, I assume that I have to enable
>>> parallel rendering ? Or is enabling MPI sufficient?
>>>
>>>
>> MPI is sufficient. The head position is still being set in vtkCamera. The
>> synchronized renderer is used to synchronize multiple camera (one for each
>> display)  like in a CAVE.
>>
>>
>>> Is this the link I should follow for building ParaView with parallel
>>> rendering?
>>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Parallel_Rendering
>>>
>>>
>> No. This is the link you need
>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/CAVE_Display
>>
>> -Nikhil
>>
>>
>>> I have no experience with IceT
>>>
>>>
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>
>
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