[Paraview] using paraview with CAVElib

[Charles Law]

Hello Steven,

I do not have much experience using VTK and CAVELib, but I assume that 
there are special vtkMapper, vtkActor or vtkRenderers which do this.  You 
should be able to add these special subclasses in ParaView and make it 
work.  All of these objects are created through Tcl calls, so It should be 
easy to make the substitution.  If you are not using MPI, then ParaView 
skips creating the composite manager, so you do not need to worry about that.

The renderer/render window is created in vtkPVRenderView in the 
"CreateRenderObjects" method.

The actor and mapper are created in vtkPVData in release 0.6, but are 
created in vtkPVPart in the nightly CVS repository.

There is an environment variable (PV_SEPARATE_RENDER_WINDOW) that when set 
causes the render window and the UI  to be in separate windows.  You may 
need this option.

Charles.




At 04:53 PM 1/3/2003 -0600, Coorpender, Steven wrote:

>Does anyone have any experience modifying the Paraview source to use the 
>CAVElib for rendering? Theoretically, it should be possible with the 
>vtkActorToPerformer class. What I need to do is find out where in the 
>Paraview source code the rendering or mapping calls to VTK are made and 
>make appropriate calls to the vtkActorToPerformer object instead. A 
>separate loop will handle the rendering using OpenGL Performer and the 
>CAVElib. Any help and/or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Steven Coorpender
>Systems Analyst
>LSUHSC-Ophthalmology
>504-412-1200x1446
>scoorp@lsuhsc.edu