Re: SoXtFullviewer and SoOffscreenRenderer

[Christoph Hintermueller <hinzge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christoph Hintermüller wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have the following problem
> I want to print the content of the actual viewer to a file in 
> postscript/Jpeg/tiff/rgb format and later on it should also be possible 
> to feed a mpeg or avi encoder lib  directly.
>
> While looking through the Books and References arround Inventor I cam 
> accross the SoOffscreenRenderer and tried to implement the example'S 
> given there.
>
>
> But all i get is an image taken form the far infinty showing most of the 
> background of the vierwer and the scene, which is at least filling the 
> viewer if not even zoomed, looks like a verry tiny icon on a vast desktop.
>
> I'v allready tried to adf a furhter camera(copy of the viewers camera) 
> to the Rootnode(viewers root passed to the Offscreen renderer) and i 
> tried to use the viwers SoGlRenderAction instead of the one of the 
> OffscreenRenderer  i played with the resoltuions ....
> but all i get is the same in all formats ...
>
>
> So can I use SoOffscreenRenderer at all to generate fileoutput in the 
> mentioned
> Formats from/alike the Viewer content or do I have to use something 
> different.
>
>
> Is there something special to consider ....
>
> cu
> Christoph
Thanks to Eric Page
Since i changed the getSceneGraph() form the hilevel function provided 
by the Application we develope for
to the
one from SoSceneManager it works fine :)
cu
Christoph