[Paraview] Scene exporter development : Information and resources

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Nicholas,

There's not much to it once you have the vtkExporter subclass ready.
For making that exporter available in ParaView, you create a XML
putting the definition under the "exporters" group. The proxy
definition should use a
(http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/cxx-doc/classvtkSMExporterProxy.html)
(or subclass, e.g. RenderViewExporterProxy).

The exporter dialog when created looks for all definitions available
under the "exporters" group that "CanExport"
(http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/cxx-doc/classvtkSMExporterProxy.html#a6a12e9c1401140db5a278617901a0603)
the active view and add that exporter's extension to the list.

Utkarsh

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Nicholas Yue <yue.nicholas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I am exploring the possibility of writing additional exporter for
> Paraview 4.1 e.g. for Renderman and Arnold. I will most likely base it on
> POV.
>
>     Which URL should I start with ? I have found this
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/Exporting_Scenes but could not find additional
> resources from a developer's perspective i.e. information about registration
> of plugin/functionality etc.
>
>     I am familiar with building using CMake and have written and
> participated in VTK->RIB in the past (long time ago [C++]).
>
>     I am guessing that with Paraview, most things are done via Python.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Nicholas Yue
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