[vtkusers] "Disabling" a volume rendering pipeline in a controlled way?

[Sankhesh Jhaveri]

Hi Elvis,

You could do any one of the following if it is an invalid filename:

1. Set the visibility of the volume to be 0.
2. Remove the volume from the renderer.

Sankhesh



On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Elvis Stansvik <
elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a volume rendering pipeline set up. In response to user
> interactions, I can manipulate certain aspects of the pipeline and
> re-render. I can even set the filename of the reader that I use as a
> source, to completely change out the volume being rendered.
>
> But what if I want to completely disable the pipeline, in effect unsetting
> the filename of the reader.
>
> My pipeline is basically just HDF5Reader -> vtkGPUVolumeRayCastMapper,
> where HDF5Reader is a custom reader I wrote to read volumes from a HDF5
> file.
>
> The problem is I can't just setFileName(None) on my reader, because my
> custom reader has a
>
>         if self._fileName is None:
>             return 0
>
> in its RequestData and RequestInformation, and I will thus get errors from
> VTK saying the pipeline failed if I do this.
>
> So my question is: What is the proper way of "unhooking" (or "disabling"
> if you will) a pipeline? I want the render window to simply show empty
> space when in this state, but still have the entire pipeline intact and
> ready for when I next want to set the filename of the reader to a valid
> volume.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Elvis
>
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