Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Customizing OpenSceneGraph
Chapter 2: Designing the Scene Graph
Chapter 3: Editing Geometry Models
Chapter 4: Manipulating the View
Chapter 5: Animating Everything
Chapter 6: Designing Creative Effects
Chapter 7: Visualizing the World
Chapter 8: Managing Massive Amounts of Data
Chapter 9: Integrating with GUI
Chapter 10: Miscellaneous Discussion in Depth
Index
- Chapter 1: Customizing OpenSceneGraph
- Introduction
- Checking out the latest version of OSG
- Configuring CMake options
- Building common plugins
- Compiling and packaging OSG on different platforms
- Compiling and using OSG on mobile devices
- Compiling and using dynamic and static libraries
- Generating the API documentation
- Creating your own project using CMake
- Chapter 2: Designing the Scene Graph
- Introduction
- Using smart and observer pointers
- Sharing and cloning objects
- Computing the world bounding box of any node
- Creating a running car
- Mirroring the scene graph
- Designing a breadth-first node visitor
- Implementing a background image node
- Making your node always face the screen
- Using draw callbacks to execute NVIDIA Cg functions
- Implementing a compass node
- Chapter 3: Editing Geometry Models
- Introduction
- Creating a polygon with borderlines
- Extruding a 2D shape to 3D
- Drawing a NURBS surface
- Drawing a dynamic clock on the screen
- Drawing a ribbon following a model
- Selecting and highlighting a model
- Selecting a triangle face of the model
- Selecting a point on the model
- Using vertex-displacement mapping in shaders
- Using the draw instanced extension
- Chapter 4: Manipulating the View
- Introduction
- Setting up views on multiple screens
- Using slave cameras to simulate a power-wall
- Using depth partition to display huge scenes
- Implementing the radar map
- Showing the top, front, and side views of a model
- Manipulating the top, front, and side views
- Following a moving model
- Using manipulators to follow models
- Designing a 2D camera manipulator
- Manipulating the view with joysticks
- Chapter 5: Animating Everything
- Introduction
- Opening and closing doors
- Playing a movie in the 3D world
- Designing scrolling text
- Implementing morph geometry
- Fading in and out
- Animating a flight on fire
- Dynamically lighting within shaders
- Creating a simple Galaxian game
- Building a skeleton system
- Skinning a customized mesh
- Letting the physics engine be
- Chapter 6: Designing Creative Effects
- Introduction
- Using the bump mapping technique
- Simulating the view-dependent shadow
- Implementing transparency with multiple passes
- Reading and displaying the depth buffer
- Implementing the night vision effect
- Implementing the depth-of-field effect
- Designing a skybox with the cube map
- Creating a simple water effect
- Creating a piece of cloud
- Customizing the state attribute
- Chapter 7: Visualizing the World
- Introduction
- Preparing the VirtualPlanetBuilder (VPB) tool
- Generating a small terrain database
- Generating terrain database on the earth
- Working with multiple imagery and elevation data
- Patching an existing terrain database with newer data
- Building NVTT support for device-independent generation
- Using SSH to implement cluster generation
- Loading and rendering terrain from the Internet
- Chapter 8: Managing Massive Amounts of Data
- Introduction
- Merging geometry data
- Compressing texture
- Sharing scene objects
- Configuring the database pager
- Designing a simple culling strategy
- Using occlusion query to cull objects
- Managing scene objects with an octree algorithm
- Rendering point cloud data with draw instancing
- Speeding up the scene intersections
- Chapter 9: Integrating with GUI
- Introduction
- Integrating OSG with Qt
- Starting rendering loops in separate threads
- Embedding Qt widgets into the scene
- Embedding CEGUI elements into the scene
- Using the osgWidget library
- Using OSG components in GLUT
- Running OSG examples on Android
- Embedding OSG into web browsers
- Designing the command buffer mechanism
- Chapter 10: Miscellaneous Discussion in Depth
- This chapter is not present in the book but is available as a free download at the following link: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/6884_Chapter10.pdf.
- Introduction
- Playing with the Delaunay triangulator
- Understanding and using the pseudo loaders
- Managing customized data with the metadata system
- Designing customized serializers
- Reflecting classes with serializers
- Taking a photo of the scene
- Designing customized intersectors
- Implementing the depth peeling method
- Using OSG in C# applications
- Using osgSwig for language binding
- Contributing your code to OSG
- Playing with osgEarth: another way to visualize the world
- Use osgEarth to display a VPB-generated database
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