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Simulated video monitor

I am trying to simulate a monitor in the Vizard 3D environment which includes a portion of the screen which simulates a real-time video of a specific location in the scene. Is this possible? Note that this is not the same as a creating a subwindow since the video must remain on the simulated monitor while the user navigates to various locations within the scene.

Yes, you can use a render node to render the scene to a texture from any arbitrary viewpoint. Then you just apply the texture to any object in the scene. Here is a sample script showing how to do this:

Code:

import viz

viz.go()



#Create render texture

renderTexture = viz.addRenderTexture()

        

#Create render node to render texture

renderNode = viz.addRenderNode()

renderNode.attachTexture(renderTexture)

renderNode.setInheritView(False)

        

#Set position/rotation of render node camera

renderNode.setPosition([0,10,0])

renderNode.setEuler([0,90,0])



#Apply render texture to object in scene

model = viz.add('gallery.ive')

model.texture(renderTexture,node='art04-FACES')



#Link an object to the viewpoint

arrow = viz.add('marker.wrl',scale=(2,2,2))

viewLink = viz.link(viz.MainView,arrow)

viewLink.setPos([None,0,None])

viewLink.setEuler([None,0,0])



#Get the party started

avatar = viz.add('vcc_female.cfg',pos=(0,0,2),euler=(180,0,0))

avatar.state(5)

That's exactly what I wanted to do - Thank you.