SoShadowAwareTransformerManip

InventorModule

genre	Visualization
author	Felix Ritter
package	FMEwork/ReleaseMeVis
dll	SoShadow
definition	SoShadow.def
see also	SoShadowCast, SoPickableShadowCast, SoShadowMaterial, SoShadowSwitch
keywords	shadow, transformer, manipulator, viewer, illustration, visualization

Purpose

The SoShadowAwareTransformerManip module resembles a SoTransformerManip but does not cast shadow if placed within a shadow subgraph.

See: Illustrative Shadows: Integrating 3D and 2D Information Displays. Felix Ritter, Henry Sonnet, Knut Hartmann, and Thomas Strothotte. Proceedings of ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2003, pp. 166-173.

Usage

Connect the SoShadowAwareTransformerManip module to the scenegraph preceding shapes you wish to manipulate.

Output Fields

self

name: self, type: SoNode

The module has one output connector to include the module into the parent scene.

Parameter Fields

Field Index

Center: Vector3

Rotation: Rotation

Scale Factor: Vector3

Scale Orientation: Rotation

Translation: Vector3

The SoShadowAwareTransformerManip module has the same parameters as the SoTransformerManip module.

Visible Fields

Translation

name: translation, type: Vector3, default: 0 0 0

Rotation

name: rotation, type: Rotation, default: 0 0 1 0

Scale Factor

name: scaleFactor, type: Vector3, default: 1 1 1

Scale Orientation

name: scaleOrientation, type: Rotation, default: 0 0 1 0

Center

name: center, type: Vector3, default: 0 0 0