Hi Ricardo,<div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Ricardo Reis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rreis@aero.ist.utl.pt" target="_blank">rreis@aero.ist.utl.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Nikhil Shetty wrote:<br>
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Hi Ricardo,<br>
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Which version of paraview are you using?<br>
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3.12.0 RC3-50<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">You may want to revert to an older version (3.10) to be able to use the space-navigator. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
taken from git<br>
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I have also the spacenav open-source driver and daemon in my system.<br>
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I have tried both ways, ie,<br>
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- with spacenav daemon running and starting the vrpn server<br>
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- with spacenav daemon off and starting the vrpn server<br>
<br></blockquote><div>To make spacenav work with vrpn you need to uncoment the following line in vrpn.cfg (comes with VRPN src)</div><div>vrpn_3DConnexion_Navigator device0</div><div><br></div><div>then start the server </div>
<div># vrpn_server -f /path/to/vrpn.cfg</div><div><br></div><div>to test if the device is working run the following command provided by vrpn</div><div><br></div><div># vrpn_print_device device0@localhost</div><div><br></div>
<div>This should print out values from VRPN device. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
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Anyway I will be grateful for any input, this device was bought with paraview in mind.<br><br></blockquote><div> </div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Regards</div></div><div>Nikhil</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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