Hi, So, how can we have this done? I got 4 monitors setup, and it will be realy usefull :)
cya On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 23:05 +0100, Tim Moore wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Curtis Olson wrote: > | Has anyone seen this little device? > | > | http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/ > | > | It plugs into your standard video card, and looks like a 3x wide > | monitor. Then you plug 3 monitors into it and tada ... a wrap around > | visual system. > | > | I'm pretty confident that FlightGear could support this out of the box, > | simply by drawing to the normal display and honoring the 3x wide monitor > | resolution, however this will only look correct if you arrange your > | monitors in a flat plane ... like a video wall. If you arrange your > | monitors so they face directly orthogonal towards your eyes (i.e. the > | outer monitors angled in) to form a "wrap around" visual system, then > | this scheme won't look right. > | > | Would it be possible to draw 3 separate view perspectives into the 3 > | regions of the screen (possibly with additional center offsets to > | compensate for the frame between the displays. That way we could setup > | a true wrap around display system rather than a "video wall" style > | display system. > | > | How close are we to making something like this work in our OSG version? > > Quite close. We already have the ability to render to slave cameras that are > offset from the main camera. Currently the offsets are assumed to be in > projection space, but OSG can handle offset viewing angles as well. The > current > code in fg_os_osgviewer.cxx also assumes that the cameras will be set up on > different graphics contexts i.e. different windows, but that is not an OSG > requirement either; the OSG example osgcamera shows how to assign slave > cameras > to different parts of a single window. > > Tim > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH3usweDhWHdXrDRURAnWLAKCJunS1PW+gIBAoTO7N/7AUbsUPOgCfYOaU > DD110h93C86tytsSkrzLXfc= > =rqU4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
