[vtkusers] Part of an actor invisible, the rest visible

[Baris Yalcin]

Am Montag, 28. Juni 2004 22:52 schrieb David.Pont at ForestResearch.co.nz:

Hi Dave, 

thank you for this suggestion. I tried the vtkDepthSortPolyData, but it didn't 
work. Depending on the angle between the camera and the part of the object  
which should be invisible, you can see or not see the invisible part.

My current pipeline is:
PolyData->TubeFilter->PolyDataMapper->Actor->Renderer

The pipeline with vtkDepthSortPolyData:
PolyData->TubeFilter->DepthSortPolyData->PolyDataMapper->Actor->Renderer

And here is the code:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
...
vtkTubeFilter tubeFilter = new vtkTubeFilter();
tubeFilter.SetInput( polyData );

vtkCamera camera = new vtkCamera();
vtkDepthSortPolyData depthSort = new vtkDepthSortPolyData();
depthSort.SetInput( tubeFilter.GetOutput() ); 	
depthSort.SetDirectionToBackToFront(); )
depthSort.SetDepthSortModeToParametricCenter();
depthSort.SetCamera(camera);
depthSort.SortScalarsOn();
depthSort.Update();		

vtkPolyDataMapper mapper = new vtkPolyDataMapper();
mapper.SetInput( depthSort.GetOutput() );
...
...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe I make here in the code an error with vtkDepthSortPolyData. Do you have 
any idea?

Baris 


> Baris,
>    try vtkDepthSortPolyData
>    Dave P
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