[Paraview] Paraview 4.3.1, VR Plugin and VRPN

[Niklas Röber]

Dear Aashish,

>
>     I'm a little stuck. I was trying to connect our tracking system
>     for a large VR wall with ParaView. The tracking runs fine with
>     Avizo from Fei (using dtrack), but I wanted to use it for ParaView
>     too. We have tracked glasses and a flystick for interaction. The
>     communication of the tracking server via VRPN to the client PC
>     works great, with
>
>         vrpn_print_devices DTrack at localhost -trackerstride 100
>
>     I can see the two sensors moving and all the buttons that are
>     pressed. My tracking config file for ParaView is attached. When I
>     start the tracking in ParaView, I see that ParaView connects to
>     the started vrpn_server, and I also see a note if the connection
>     is dropped. But thats all, I don't see any interaction or changes
>     in my viewport. Am I doing something totally wrong? I also tried
>     running it as client/server with the same effect of not working.
>
>
> Your config looks correct to me. I am assuming that you hit start on
> the ParaView UI panel to actually let ParaView use that data?

Yes I do, and when I do this, I get a note from vrpn_server that
ParaView has connected, and when I hit stop, I get the note that the
connection was dropped. All what I would expect, except that ParaView
does not react to the input...

Cheers,
Niklas

>
> - Aashish
>  
>
>     Thanks for your help!
>     Cheers from Hamburg ...
>     Niklas :)
>
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