[vtkusers] vtkAssembly::SetVisiblity(int)

[Andrew.C]

Barth, Sebastian wrote:
> 
> Hello vtkusers,
> 
> I have a vtkAssembly that controls some vtkActors. Everything works fine
> with rotating and translating the vtkActors with the vtkAssembly.
> If I want to use vtkAssembly::SetVisibility(false) or
> vtkAssembly::SetVisibilityOff() nothing happens. The actors ignore the
> visibility of its assembly.
> 
> Is this a bug or a wanted behavior?
> How can I set all of the props added to the assembly set invisible or
> visible?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sebastian Barth
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Apart from this visibility issue, and unless the code has been changed since
5.4 , vtkAssembly also has a n! performance issue with 'deep' scene graphs

http://old.nabble.com/Performance-issue-with-vtkAssembly%3A%3AUpdatePaths-ts23544140.html#a23544140

Basically, VTK has  very weak "scene graph" functionality.




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