Very cool! Maybe whip up a plugin Writer wrapper around it, permitting
osgconv cow.osg cow.dot
Then, what about enabling that osgdb_dot.dll plugin as a Reader as well?
;-O
cheers
-- mew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Paul Melis
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:26 AM
> To: osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org
> Subject: [osg-users] osgdot - a tool to generate a picture of
> a scenegraph'sstructure
>
> Hello,
>
> Somebody (McKay Davis) asked me some time ago about a small
> tool I made to generate a Graphviz .dot file from a
> scenegraph. This tool allows you to generate a picture of
> node and drawable relationships (and some other stuff as
> well) for a given model file readable by OSG. I hereby post
> this tool to the list. I don't have time nor any work relation a.t.m.
> with OSG to make it into something more advanced. The code is
> in the public domain, so if this is deemed interesting enough
> it could be included in the OSG distribution.
>
> I've succesfully used it on some projects to gain insight
> into the contents of OSG files. Mostly to verify output
> written by other tools and to check how the 3D Studio MAX
> exporter writes a scene.
> It should work on small and large models (in number of nodes)
> as the limiting factor is most likely the dot tool, which has
> to layout the graph nodes to generate the actual picture.
> Attached are example output when run on the cessnafire.osg
> model distributed with OSG and for a model exported from 3D
> Studio MAX. See the source for the meaning of the grey color,
> line thickness, etc.
>
> It consists of only a single C++ file. There's some comments
> on how to use it and what it outputs, at the beginning of the
> file. You need the graphviz package to convert the .dot file
> to a PNG or JPEG. And lastly, it's pretty primitive at the
> moment, so a lot of things could be added.
>
> Have fun with it,
> Paul
>
>
>
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