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Andrey
05-12-2008, 10:21 AM
Hi,
Is there any tool to save the scene created by Vizard script as a WRL file?
If there is no such a tool, then could you recommend the solution for the following problem. I know the parameters of the cylinder in Vizard: position of the bottom, position of the top, scale. How to convert them to WRML cylinder node parameters ‘translation’, rotation’ and ‘scale’?
Thank you,
Andrey
farshizzo
05-12-2008, 04:42 PM
WRL files are simple text files, so you can manually generate the file. Here is an example WRL file that creates a cylinder:Transform {
translation 0 0.25 0
rotation 0 1 0 0
scale 1 1 1
children [
Shape {
geometry Cylinder { radius 0.05 height 0.5 }
}
]
}You can use Python file routines to open a file, write the contents of the wrl, and close it.
Andrey
05-13-2008, 07:29 AM
Sure, no problem to generate wrl. The problem is that the translation and rotation in WRML differ from Vizard. As to translation, WRML has opposite Z direction. More difficult situation is for rotation: since I have top (p1) and bottom (p2) cylinder positions in Vizard, to get WRML rotation parameters I tried
vizmat.LookToQuat(vizmat.VectorToPoint(p1,p2))
and
vizmat.QuatToAxisAngle(vizmat.LookToQuat(vizmat.Ve ctorToPoint(p1,p2)))
but both variants produces something mysterious. Could you help?
farshizzo
05-14-2008, 09:49 AM
The VRML rotation field is an axis-angle rotation. To convert a Vizard axis-angle rotation to a VRML axix-angle rotation, you will need to negate the x,y components of the axis vector and convert the degrees to radians. Here is a function that will return the VRML rotation of a cone given the bottom and top points of the cone:def getVRMLConeRotation(bottom,top):
v = viz.Vector(top)
v -= bottom
m = viz.Matrix()
m.makeVecRotVec([0,1,0],v)
r = m.getAxisAngle()
return -r[0],-r[1],r[2],viz.radians(r[3])
Andrey
05-14-2008, 12:08 PM
Thank you, now the result is not misterious. But when I add saved WRL back to Vizard I get the cylinder mirrored from X axis in respect to the original one. Is it because of the reverse convertion while adding?
farshizzo
05-14-2008, 05:27 PM
I tested it out here and it seems to work fine. Can you provide a sample script that recreates your problem?
Andrey
05-15-2008, 10:03 AM
Thank you again, I already found the bug, it works normal.
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