[vtkusers] Coupling multiple cameras

[Jonas Juselius]

I figured it out. It was simply a matter of setting the origin to the
center of the bounding box. Sorry for the noise, but it's hard to learn
VTK from the class documentation... Perhaps I should buy the book ;)

Jonas

On 02. april 2012 16:24, Jonas Juselius wrote:
> I tried that, but I ended up in the woods. The problem is that I need to
> apply some (actor dependent) rotations to each actor. I use
> vtkTransform::RotateX(), etc. But for some strange reason, this causes
> the camera view/transformation to go bananas. The real problem it seems,
> is that I must do a CameraReset() in order to get the camera nicely
> centered on each actor. When I transform, the camera is not pointing
> correctly at the actors anymore. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
> 
> Jonas
> 
> 
> On 02. april 2012 15:32, Jothybasu Selvaraj wrote:
>> This does exactly what you need
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/ShareCamera
>>
>> Jothy
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Jonas Juselius <jonas.juselius at uit.no
>> <mailto:jonas.juselius at uit.no>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi!
>>
>>     I have the following problem: I have four actors, each with its own
>>     renderer. The renderers are tiled onto the rendering window using
>>     viewports, the cameras are reset for each renderer and the window is
>>     given an interactor. So far so good; I can rotate each of the cameras
>>     around each actor. Now I would like to couple the cameras, so that when
>>     I interact/move one camera, the others move in unison, i.e. that I get
>>     the same transformation for all four cameras/actors. How do I do this?
>>     Is there a better solution than using multiple viewports and cameras?
>>
>>     Best regards, Jonas
>>
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>>     Dr. Jonas Juselius <jonas.juselius at uit.no
>>     <mailto:jonas.juselius at uit.no>>
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> 

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Dr. Jonas Juselius <jonas.juselius at uit.no>
High Performance Computing Group, University of Tromsø
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