[vtkusers] prop3D always in foreground

Aashish Chaudhary aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com
Mon Aug 19 18:21:08 EDT 2013


I believe this example should help you:

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Images/BackgroundImage

Thanks,



On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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