Hi Neil,

The osgEarth project does essentially what you are looking for.  Check it
out at http://www.osgearth.org

Thanks,

Jason

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:08 AM, <neil.hug...@tesco.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone come across a scenario where they wished to have PagedLOD that
> instead of handling Nodes, handle images ?
>
> Essentially I find myself in a position where I have a model that
> references a texture, but that texture is quite large, and even with
> reducing the texture size with little compromise in quality, the time to
> stream over the web is too large. So, what I'm considering is replacing the
> image load call, with a similar concept to that of PagedLOD's whereby I
> could give the "PagedImageLOD" object a list of ordered image file names
> that I want it to progressively load - in much the same way that apps like
> google map appears to work. The first image file could be a 2x2 pixel image,
> whilst the nth image file would be the full-on image. I would want the
> "PagedImageLOD" to return a valid Image node immediately - perhaps a hard
> coded small default image - whilst in the background the specified image
> filesnames are being downloaded, and replace the content of the created
> image node.
>
> The reason for this sort of functionality would be that I could then
> intercept all image load requests via my own callback handler, replace with
> a PagedImageLOD request, and still permit most plugins to work happily on
> the assumption that a model plugin that loads an image is probably only
> trying to reference that image in some stateset context.
>
> Sorry for the thought dump, but has anyone tried/needed to do a similar
> thing, and if so is there an example available ?
>
> Alternatively, if you can think of a better way that would be good as well.
> Most obvious alternative - that of have an LOD node on the model - would be
> fine if I only had one or two models. However, I have thousands of different
> models, so can't really ask our modellers to redo all these.
>
> Many thanks for any help/thoughts.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Neil.
>
>
>
>
> .to whose content was progressively replaced by the downloaded images. In
> this way I could
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