[vtk-developers] VRML Appearance Nodes

[Will Schroeder]

I agree the process is tricky, and we are actively rethinking it.

If you want to make an attempt, just focus on the affected class(es) and a
test program. Either I or somebody much better at this than me will work
with you to slip it in.

So let me know if you are going to try, otherwise somebody, someday will
try and resolve this :-)

W

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Patrick Snape <patricksnape at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> Bug report submitted:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=15039
>
> I'm not sure if any of the other importers include this functionality
> (loading a texture from a url) but it would be a great addition I think. At
> the very least the documentation should be clear that appearance nodes are
> not actually supported. I wouldn't mind helping out but must admit that I
> am intimidated with the complex process of submitting patches back to VTK.
> Particularly the manner in which code reviews seem to be handled... I feel
> like I'm trying to submit a patch back to the linux kernel!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Will Schroeder <
> will.schroeder at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Patrick-
>>
>> Can you enter a bug report? If not let me know and I'll do it. I've
>> contacted the original developer and I am "encouraging" him ;-) to take a
>> look...we'll see if he has the time.
>>
>> W
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 5:49 AM, patricksnape <patricksnape at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, In the vtkVRMLImporter class documentation
>>> <http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkVRMLImporter.html> it
>>> mentions that appearance nodes are supported. However, from browsing the
>>> source code on Github, it appears that although they are recognised by the
>>> parser, they are not actually parsed. It would be great if textures could
>>> be parsed as well since the basic appearance nodes essentially just contain
>>> a url to the texture. Is this something that would be valued by the rest of
>>> the community? I'd love to drop the current VRML parser that I'm using but
>>> I can't sacrifice texture support.
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