Perry McDowell (mcdowell++at++cs.nps.navy.mil)
Fri, 2 Dec 94 09:39:38 PST
I am having trouble inputting DCS nodes into my application using
MultiGen v14. I create the node I want to be a DCS node as an object
and make it the child of a group which is the child of a DOF node in
MultiGen. I position the DOF node where I want it, and the axis
appears in the correct position. I exercise the DOF and it appears to
work correctly in MultiGen.
The problem is when I run my application in Performer, the DOF nodes
never appear. I have tried attaching them to another group with no
other children and moving the DOF to the first node under its parent,
but the node doesn't appear in Performer. When I move the DOF node up
two levels higher in the hierarchy, it will appear, but if I put it only
one level up in the hierarchy, it still is not visible. Also, if I put
all the DOF nodes at the same level the first is visible at, only half
of them are visible. I can't understand why the DOF's are apparently
getting culled, since everything else at that level is in the same area
and is appearing correctly. If I go into the DOF's attributes and enter
the location where I want the door, MultiGen puts it out in the middle of
nowhere.
I have used DOF's in a smaller application and didn't have this problem.
However, in looking back at my earlier application to try and solve this
problem, I notice that while the DOF nodes rotate correctly in Performer
they rotate completely wrong in MultiGen. (They are doors and they rotate
about a point ~5m away from the edge, while in Performer they rotate about
an axis through the edge.)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Information:
MultiGen v14
Performer 1.2
Running on 4 processor ONYX RE2
Perry McDowell
mcdowell++at++cs.nps.navy.mil
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