[vtkusers] checking visibility of a vtkActor

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey Juan,

Every descendent of vtkProp has a GetVisibility() method.

-Eric

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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group


On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Juan Cardelino wrote:

> I've been looking for some time a way to determine if an actor is
> visible or not in a scene. So far I've been unsuccesful and I'm about
> to implement it myself, but I want to be sure before. What makes me
> doubt is the behaviour of the vtkRenderWindowInteractor. When you
> Interact with a vtkRenderWindow and you press the 'r' key, all actors
> are made visible. So it has to compute their visibility in some way.
> Can anyone give me a hint on where to look.
> Thanks in advance,
>                            Juan
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