Advanced Question rendering mesh to texture?

[jedidia]

I was just wondering, is it possible to render a mesh to a texture surface from a custom camera angle in orbiter? For my purposes preferably in wireframe...

 

[Bibi Uncle]

You could do a projection of each vertices on the texture based on the camera angle, and then connect each vertices with the sketchpad. Good luck...

 

[Loru]

CameraMFD had that ability I think. It rendered either normal picture or "Night vision" so probably that may be a clue.

 

[jedidia]

You could do a projection of each vertices on the texture based on the camera angle, and then connect each vertices with the sketchpad. Good luck...

While not being a problem to implement (apart from the huge time effort needed), what you'd be doing is rendering a mesh on the CPU. Good bye framerate... (Sketchpad is somewhat slow as it is).

CameraMFD had that ability I think. It rendered either normal picture or "Night vision" so probably that may be a clue.

I assume the nightvision is just a post-rendering filter, but if it can render to the MFD surface from a custom angle, that's already pretty good. But I just noticed that it doesn't include source code, so it won't help me much. Does anybody know how Vanguard did it?

 

[tblaxland]

Does anybody know how Vanguard did it?

No. Even in prior discussion the clues were scarce: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=7245

 

[jedidia]

Oh well, there goes the idea of rendering a wireframe schematic to the panel in IMS instead of just an icon for every module. Pity.

 

[dumbo2007]

Perhaps you can try using the D3D11 client and maybe there are techniques available on the net for using the directx interface directly?

 

[jedidia]

Not really an option. I don't doubt that it would be possible to implement such a function into a graphics client, but that would reduce compatibility considerably. For the other, there's just no time for fancy experiments like that. Too many more important things to be done...

 

[asmi]

There are plans to implement such a feature in D3D11Client, but I can't tell you much regarding other clients (including stock one)...