Welcome to OpenSceneGraph 3.0 Beginner’s Guide’s documentation!

Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Journey into OpenSceneGraph
• Chapter 2: Compilation and Installation of OpenSceneGraph
• Chapter 3: Creating Your First OSG Program
  • Constructing your own projects
  • Using a root node
  • Understanding memory management
  • ref_ptr<> and Referenced classes
  • Collecting garbage: why and how
  • Tracing the managed entities
  • Parsing command-line arguments
  • Tracing with the notifier
  • Redirecting the notifier
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Building Geometry Models
  • How OpenGL draws objects
  • Geode and Drawable classes
  • Rendering basic shapes
  • Storing array data
  • Vertices and vertex attributes
  • Specifying drawing types
  • Indexing primitives
  • Using polygonal techniques
  • Rereading geometry attributes
  • Customizing a primitive functor
  • Implementing your own drawables
  • Using OpenGL drawing calls
  • Summary
• Chapter 5: Managing Scene Graph
  • The Group interface
  • Managing parent nodes
  • Traversing the scene graph
  • Transformation nodes
  • Understanding the matrix
  • The Matrix Transform class
  • Switch nodes
  • Level-of-detail nodes
  • Proxy and paging nodes
  • Customizing your own NodeKits
  • The visitor design pattern
  • Visiting scene graph structures
  • Summary
• Chapter 6: Creating Realistic Rendering Effects
  • Encapsulating the OpenGL state machine
  • Attributes and modes
  • Inheriting render states
  • Playing with fixed-function effects
  • Lights and light sources
  • The Image class
  • The basis of texture mapping
  • Handling rendering order
  • Understanding graphics shaders
  • Using uniforms
  • Working with the geometry shader
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Viewing the World
  • From world to screen
  • The Camera class
  • Rendering order of cameras
  • Using a single viewer
  • Digging into the simulation loop
  • Using a composite viewer
  • Changing global display settings
  • Stereo visualization
  • Rendering to textures
  • Frame buffer, pixel buffer, and FBO
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: Animating Scene Objects
  • Taking references to functions
  • List of callbacks
  • Avoding confilicting modifications
  • Understanding ease motions
  • Animating the transformation nodes
  • Changing rendering states
  • Playing movies on textures
  • Creating complex key-frame animations
  • Channels and animation managers
  • Loading and rendering characters
  • Summary
• Chatper 9: Interacting with Outside Elements
  • Various events
  • Handling mouse and keyboard inputs
  • Adding customized events
  • Picking objects
  • Intersection
  • Windows, graphics contexts, and cameras
  • The Traits class
  • Integrating OSG into a window
  • Summary
• Chapter 10: Saving and Loading Files
  • Understanding file I/O plugins
  • Discovery of specified extension
  • Supported file formats
  • The pseudo-loader
  • Configuring third-party dependencies
  • Writing your own plugins
  • Handling the data stream
  • Serializing OSG native scenes
  • Creating serializers
  • Summary
• Chapter 11: Developing Visual Components
  • Creating billboards in a scene
  • Creating texts
  • Creating 3D texts
  • Creating particle animations
  • Creating shadows on the ground
  • Implementing special effects
  • Playing with more NodeKits
  • Summary
• Chapter 12: Improving Rendering Efficiency
  • Open Threads basics
  • Understanding multithreaded readering
  • Dynamic scene culling
  • Occluders and occludees
  • Improving your application
  • Paging huge scene data
  • Making use of the quad-tree
  • Summary

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page