Re: [Paraview] 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator and paraview
Hi Ricardo, Which version of paraview are you using? -Nikhil On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Ricardo Reis rr...@aero.ist.utl.pt wrote: Hi all A SpaceNavigator has arrived in my desk and I have been trying to put to work for paraview. I use Linux. I've found the wiki page http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Space_**Navigatorhttp://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Space_Navigator Compiled and instaled vrpn in my system. Updated my source code for paraview using git and explicitly compiled the plugin for VRPN. VRPN_INCLUDE_DIR /usr/local/include VRPN_LIBRARY /usr/local/lib/libvrpn.a VRPN_QUAT_LIBRARY/usr/local/lib/libquat.a I uncommented the relevant line from vrpn.cfg and started the server. When starting paraview with paraview --vrpn --vrpn-address=tracker0@**localhost the result is Cannot open data file --vrpn Application asked to unregister timer 0x6117 which is not registered in this thread. Fix application. I have also tried to go to the plugin managment and set the vrpn plugin to autoload. Anyway it is not working. Ideas? best regards, Ricardo Reis 'Non Serviam' PhD candidate @ Lasef Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero http://www.radiozero.pt http://www.flickr.com/photos/**rreis/http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/ contacts: gtalk: kyriu...@gmail.com skype: kyriusan ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator and paraview
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Nikhil Shetty wrote: Hi Ricardo, Which version of paraview are you using? 3.12.0 RC3-50 taken from git I have also the spacenav open-source driver and daemon in my system. I have tried both ways, ie, - with spacenav daemon running and starting the vrpn server - with spacenav daemon off and starting the vrpn server none works. The spacenav source brings a simple example program that works. It's just a openGL cube that you manipulate with the SpaceNavigator. Maybe the plugin should work with this instead of vrpn? Just suggesting. Anyway I will be grateful for any input, this device was bought with paraview in mind. best Ricardo Reis 'Non Serviam' PhD candidate @ Lasef Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero http://www.radiozero.pt http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/ contacts: gtalk: kyriu...@gmail.com skype: kyriusan ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator and paraview
Hi Ricardo, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Ricardo Reis rr...@aero.ist.utl.pt wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Nikhil Shetty wrote: Hi Ricardo, Which version of paraview are you using? 3.12.0 RC3-50 You may want to revert to an older version (3.10) to be able to use the space-navigator. taken from git I have also the spacenav open-source driver and daemon in my system. I have tried both ways, ie, - with spacenav daemon running and starting the vrpn server - with spacenav daemon off and starting the vrpn server To make spacenav work with vrpn you need to uncoment the following line in vrpn.cfg (comes with VRPN src) vrpn_3DConnexion_Navigator device0 then start the server # vrpn_server -f /path/to/vrpn.cfg to test if the device is working run the following command provided by vrpn # vrpn_print_device device0@localhost This should print out values from VRPN device. none works. The spacenav source brings a simple example program that works. It's just a openGL cube that you manipulate with the SpaceNavigator. Maybe the plugin should work with this instead of vrpn? Just suggesting. The reason we went with VRPN is because we were building a general VR framework and needed the capability to support different devices (wiimotes, gamepads, kinects etc). Developing a VRPN client plugin seemed like the quickest way to do that and also our clients use VRPN so it was sort of our way forward. But what you say makes a lot of sense but we are sorted of limited by funding and the clients immediate requirements to be able to support that. As a matter of fact the SpaceNavigator support in PV was a community contributed patch to the original VRPN plugin. You are more than welcomed to contribute native drivers support if you so wish to. I would be glad to provide assistance in this endeavor if you choose to take it up. Anyway I will be grateful for any input, this device was bought with paraview in mind. As a side note, there have been quiet a lot of changes to the VRPN plugin (its now called VRPlugin). We have a better framework to support multiple VR devices (even tracked) from various VRPN/VRUI server sources and better configuration mechanism to deal with these devices. However we haven't yet ported and tested the space-navigator into this new framework. Its work in progress and I will be sending out an email once we are ready with a few more things (like documentation) in place. Regards Nikhil best Ricardo Reis 'Non Serviam' PhD candidate @ Lasef Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero http://www.radiozero.pt http://www.flickr.com/photos/**rreis/http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/ contacts: gtalk: kyriu...@gmail.com skype: kyriusan ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator and paraview
Hi Nikhil First of all, your input allowed me to get into the right track. It all works now and it's great. Thanks 1 further question and more comments bellow. My use of Space Navigator is to navigate my simulations and not to manipulate them. Something like this was asked before in the list http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-September/018757.html Is this possible? To use Space Navigator to control the camera, user movement and not to rotate objects? Or I must manipulate the all the ensemble to make it seem like I'm moving through it? On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Nikhil Shetty wrote: The reason we went with VRPN is because we were building a general VR framework and needed the capability to support different devices (wiimotes, gamepads, kinects etc). Developing a VRPN client plugin seemed like the quickest way to do that and also our clients use VRPN so it was sort of our way forward. But what you say makes a lot of sense but we are sorted of limited by funding and the clients immediate requirements to be able to support that. As a matter of fact the SpaceNavigator support in PV was a community contributed patch to the original VRPN plugin. You are more than welcomed to contribute native drivers support if you so wish to. I would be glad to provide assistance in this endeavor if you choose to take it up. After reading a bit about it I thought that would be the case. Anyway spacenav seems to do more than 3D Connexion stuff. I think it can become my pet project to contribute something to paraview code. Anyway I will be grateful for any input, this device was bought with paraview in mind. As a side note, there have been quiet a lot of changes to the VRPN plugin (its now called VRPlugin). We have a better framework to support multiple VR devices (even tracked) from various VRPN/VRUI server sources and better configuration mechanism to deal with these devices. However we haven't yet ported and tested the space-navigator into this new framework. Its work in progress and I will be sending out an email once we are ready with a few more things (like documentation) in place. Nice read, can't wait for the announcement. best, Ricardo Reis 'Non Serviam' PhD candidate @ Lasef Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero http://www.radiozero.pt http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/ contacts: gtalk: kyriu...@gmail.com skype: kyriusan ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
Re: [Paraview] 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator and paraview
Hi Ricardo, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Ricardo Reis rr...@aero.ist.utl.pt wrote: Hi Nikhil First of all, your input allowed me to get into the right track. It all works now and it's great. Thanks 1 further question and more comments bellow. My use of Space Navigator is to navigate my simulations and not to manipulate them. Something like this was asked before in the list http://www.cmake.org/**pipermail/paraview/2010-**September/018757.htmlhttp://www.cmake.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-September/018757.html Is this possible? To use Space Navigator to control the camera, user movement and not to rotate objects? Or I must manipulate the all the ensemble to make it seem like I'm moving through it? Yes if you have it working in PV then you have the capabilities to do both (manipulate the camera and the objects). If you click on the root of the pipeline (builtin) it manipulates the camera. If you click on any other objects in the pipeline then the objects representation will be manipulated. On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Nikhil Shetty wrote: The reason we went with VRPN is because we were building a general VR framework and needed the capability to support different devices (wiimotes, gamepads, kinects etc). Developing a VRPN client plugin seemed like the quickest way to do that and also our clients use VRPN so it was sort of our way forward. But what you say makes a lot of sense but we are sorted of limited by funding and the clients immediate requirements to be able to support that. As a matter of fact the SpaceNavigator support in PV was a community contributed patch to the original VRPN plugin. You are more than welcomed to contribute native drivers support if you so wish to. I would be glad to provide assistance in this endeavor if you choose to take it up. After reading a bit about it I thought that would be the case. Anyway spacenav seems to do more than 3D Connexion stuff. I think it can become my pet project to contribute something to paraview code. Awesome :) Anyway I will be grateful for any input, this device was bought with paraview in mind. As a side note, there have been quiet a lot of changes to the VRPN plugin (its now called VRPlugin). We have a better framework to support multiple VR devices (even tracked) from various VRPN/VRUI server sources and better configuration mechanism to deal with these devices. However we haven't yet ported and tested the space-navigator into this new framework. Its work in progress and I will be sending out an email once we are ready with a few more things (like documentation) in place. Nice read, can't wait for the announcement. best, Ricardo Reis 'Non Serviam' PhD candidate @ Lasef Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero http://www.radiozero.pt http://www.flickr.com/photos/**rreis/http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/ contacts: gtalk: kyriu...@gmail.com skype: kyriusan ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
[Paraview] 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator and paraview
Hi all A SpaceNavigator has arrived in my desk and I have been trying to put to work for paraview. I use Linux. I've found the wiki page http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Space_Navigator Compiled and instaled vrpn in my system. Updated my source code for paraview using git and explicitly compiled the plugin for VRPN. VRPN_INCLUDE_DIR /usr/local/include VRPN_LIBRARY /usr/local/lib/libvrpn.a VRPN_QUAT_LIBRARY/usr/local/lib/libquat.a I uncommented the relevant line from vrpn.cfg and started the server. When starting paraview with paraview --vrpn --vrpn-address=tracker0@localhost the result is Cannot open data file --vrpn Application asked to unregister timer 0x6117 which is not registered in this thread. Fix application. I have also tried to go to the plugin managment and set the vrpn plugin to autoload. Anyway it is not working. Ideas? best regards, Ricardo Reis 'Non Serviam' PhD candidate @ Lasef Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero http://www.radiozero.pt http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/ contacts: gtalk: kyriu...@gmail.com skype: kyriusan ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
