[vtkusers] prop3D always in foreground

[Aashish Chaudhary]

You can use multiple renderers tied to same render window. For related
discussion please visit this thread:
http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2008-July/095994.html

Hope this helps.

Thanks,



On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Miro Drahos <mdrahos at robodoc.com> wrote:

>  Hi all,
> I've been scratching my head over this one for some time now, searching
> the mailing list, but still don't have a clue:
>
> How do I manually set a z-order of a prop? In other words, I have a prop
> (silhouette outline of a surface) that I want to be rendered always in
> foreground.
> Since this is output of vtkPolyDataSilhouetteFilter, it is rendered via
> vtkMapper and vtkActor and not via vtkMapper2D vtkActor2D. I tried to
> visualize it via the *2D pipeline since I saw the
> SetDisplayLocationToForeground() of vtkProperty2D but it did not render
> correctly.
>
> I am thinking I need to traverse vtkCullerCollection<http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkCullerCollection.html>from my renderer, but then what?
> The class vtkCuller has only one method declared virtual double Cull(...)
> with no definition.
>
> I am kind of lost here and would very much appreciate any advice on this.
> Thank you!
> Miro
>
>
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