[vtkusers] prop3D always in foreground

[Miro Drahos]

Brilliant!
That's exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you tons!
Miro


On 08/19/2013 03:19 PM, Aashish Chaudhary 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 
> <mailto: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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