[Paraview] Controlling RenderView using Wiimote and VRPlugin

[Aashish Chaudhary]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Nikhil Shetty <nikhil.shetty at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi Bueter,
>
> You will first have to figure out how to set a VRPN server and WiiMote
> working for wiimote Joystick (I'm guessing its the four buttons in front
> for left,right,top,bottom).  Here is tutorial that may help you.
> http://www.vrgeeks.org/vrpn/tutorial---use-vrpn. It dont think it uses
> the buttons but you can tweak the example to write one for them.
>
> Once you have the VRPN server ready then connecting them to PV should be a
> matter easy. The last I checked I dont think the VRPlugin has any
> interaction styles handling button input.
>

Button inputs are handled (if I understood the question right)

http://paraview.org/gitweb?p=ParaView.git;a=blob;f=Plugins/VR/vtkVRGrabWorldStyle.h;h=087c37e76b69d420f2338a18eed61e6124e27e45;hb=HEAD


> However this may have changed in the recent months.  If it has not then
> you will have to write a new interactor style to handle this.
>
> -Nikhil
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Bueter, Travis J. (S&T-Student) <
> tjbxv7 at mail.mst.edu> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I am currently trying to create a way of controlling the camera in
>> ParaView using the Joystick of a Wiimote (WiiC library). I had previously
>> attempted this by using Pat Marion’s socket plugin to send camera changes
>> through the python shell but ran into a problem with sending too many
>> Render() commands. It was suggested to me by Pat Marion and the Kitware
>> employees I met at SuperComputing 2012 to use the VRPlugin to accomplish
>> this. So after a 3 month hiatus from my project, I have finally gotten back
>> to it but am currently lost in documentation. I have no idea where to begin
>> with writing the code for a custom device and then connecting to and
>> writing the camera changes to the VRPN server for ParaView. If someone
>> could point me in the right direction of documentation that explains how to
>> create a custom device/interaction for the VRPlugin/VRPN or some examples
>> of such user created applications I would greatly appreciate it! ****
>>
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>>
>> Thanks,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *Travis J. Bueter*
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> Nikhil
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