The SoShadowGroup node is a group node used for shadow rendering.Children of this node can recieve shadows, and cast shadows on other children. Use the SoShadowStyle node to control shadow casters and shadow receivers. More...

#include <FXViz/nodes/SoShadowGroup.h>

Inheritance diagram for SoShadowGroup:

Public Types
enum	VisibilityFlag { ABSOLUTE_RADIUS, LONGEST_BBOX_EDGE_FACTOR, PROJECTED_BBOX_DEPTH_FACTOR }

Public Types inherited from SoSeparator
enum	CacheEnabled { OFF, ON, AUTO }

Public Types inherited from SoNode
enum	NodeType { INVENTOR = 0x0000, VRML1 = 0x0001, VRML2 = 0x0002, INVENTOR_1 = 0x0004, INVENTOR_2_0 = 0x0008, INVENTOR_2_1 = 0x0010, INVENTOR_2_5 = 0x0020, INVENTOR_2_6 = 0x0040, COIN_1_0 = 0x0080, COIN_2_0 = 0x0100, EXTENSION = 0x0200, COIN_2_2 = 0x0400, COIN_2_3 = 0x0800, COIN_2_4 = 0x1000, INVENTOR_5_0 = 0x2000, COIN_2_5 = 0x4000, COIN_3_0 = 0x8000, INVENTOR_6_0 = 0x10000, COIN_4_0 = 0x20000 }

Public Member Functions
virtual SoType	getTypeId (void) const
	Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoBase. This is used for run-time type checking and "downward" casting. More...

	SoShadowGroup (void)

virtual void	GLRenderBelowPath (SoGLRenderAction *action)

virtual void	GLRenderInPath (SoGLRenderAction *action)

virtual void	notify (SoNotList *nl)

void	enableSubgraphSearchOnNotify (const SbBool onoff)

Public Member Functions inherited from SoSeparator
	SoSeparator (void)

	SoSeparator (const int nchildren)

virtual void	doAction (SoAction *action)

virtual void	GLRender (SoGLRenderAction *action)

virtual void	GLRenderOffPath (SoGLRenderAction *action)

virtual void	callback (SoCallbackAction *action)

virtual void	getBoundingBox (SoGetBoundingBoxAction *action)

virtual void	getMatrix (SoGetMatrixAction *action)

virtual void	handleEvent (SoHandleEventAction *action)

virtual void	rayPick (SoRayPickAction *action)

virtual void	search (SoSearchAction *action)

virtual void	getPrimitiveCount (SoGetPrimitiveCountAction *action)

virtual void	audioRender (SoAudioRenderAction *action)

virtual SbBool	affectsState (void) const

Public Member Functions inherited from SoGroup
	SoGroup (void)

	SoGroup (int nchildren)

virtual void	addChild (SoNode *node)

virtual void	insertChild (SoNode *child, int newchildindex)

virtual SoNode *	getChild (int index) const

virtual int	findChild (const SoNode *node) const

virtual int	getNumChildren (void) const

virtual void	removeChild (int childindex)

virtual void	removeChild (SoNode *child)

virtual void	removeAllChildren (void)

virtual void	replaceChild (int index, SoNode *newchild)

virtual void	replaceChild (SoNode oldchild, SoNode newchild)

virtual void	pick (SoPickAction *action)

virtual void	write (SoWriteAction *action)

virtual SoChildList *	getChildren (void) const

Public Member Functions inherited from SoNode
void	setOverride (const SbBool state)

SbBool	isOverride (void) const

void	setNodeType (const NodeType type)

NodeType	getNodeType (void) const

virtual SoNode *	copy (SbBool copyconnections=FALSE) const

virtual void	grabEventsSetup (void)

virtual void	grabEventsCleanup (void)

virtual void	startNotify (void)

uint32_t	getNodeId (void) const

virtual void	writeInstance (SoOutput *out)

virtual SoNode *	addToCopyDict (void) const

virtual SoFieldContainer *	copyThroughConnection (void) const

Public Member Functions inherited from SoFieldContainer
void	setToDefaults (void)

SbBool	hasDefaultValues (void) const

SbBool	fieldsAreEqual (const SoFieldContainer *container) const

void	copyFieldValues (const SoFieldContainer *container, SbBool copyconnections=FALSE)

SbBool	set (const char *const fielddata)

void	get (SbString &fielddata)

virtual int	getFields (SoFieldList &l) const

virtual int	getAllFields (SoFieldList &l) const

virtual SoField *	getField (const SbName &name) const

virtual SoField *	getEventIn (const SbName &name) const

virtual SoField *	getEventOut (const SbName &name) const

SbBool	getFieldName (const SoField *const field, SbName &name) const

SbBool	enableNotify (const SbBool flag)

SbBool	isNotifyEnabled (void) const

SbBool	set (const char fielddata, SoInput input)

void	get (SbString &fielddata, SoOutput *out)

virtual SbBool	validateNewFieldValue (SoField field, void newval)

virtual void	addWriteReference (SoOutput *out, SbBool isfromfield=FALSE)

SbBool	getIsBuiltIn (void) const

virtual void	getFieldsMemorySize (size_t &managed, size_t &unmanaged) const

void	setUserData (void *userdata) const

void *	getUserData (void) const

Public Member Functions inherited from SoBase
void	ref (void) const

void	unref (void) const

void	unrefNoDelete (void) const

int32_t	getRefCount (void) const

void	touch (void)

SbBool	isOfType (SoType type) const
	Returns `TRUE` if the type of this object is either of the same type or inherited from type. More...

virtual SbName	getName (void) const

virtual void	setName (const SbName &newname)

void	addAuditor (void *const auditor, const SoNotRec::Type type)

void	removeAuditor (void *const auditor, const SoNotRec::Type type)

const SoAuditorList &	getAuditors (void) const

SbBool	shouldWrite (void)

void	assertAlive (void) const

Static Public Member Functions
static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)

static void	initClass (void)

static void	init (void)

static SbBool	isSupported (void)

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoSeparator
static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)

static void	initClass (void)

static void	setNumRenderCaches (const int howmany)

static int	getNumRenderCaches (void)

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoGroup
static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)

static void	initClass (void)

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoNode
static uint32_t	getCompatibilityTypes (const SoType &nodetype)

static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)

static SoNode *	getByName (const SbName &name)

static int	getByName (const SbName &name, SoNodeList &l)

static void	initClass (void)

static void	initClasses (void)

static uint32_t	getNextNodeId (void)

static int	getActionMethodIndex (const SoType type)

static void	getBoundingBoxS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	GLRenderS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	callbackS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	getMatrixS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	handleEventS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	pickS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	rayPickS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	searchS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	writeS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	audioRenderS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

static void	getPrimitiveCountS (SoAction action, SoNode node)

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoFieldContainer
static void	initClass (void)

static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)

static void	cleanupClass (void)

static void	initCopyDict (void)

static void	addCopy (const SoFieldContainer orig, const SoFieldContainer copy)

static SoFieldContainer *	checkCopy (const SoFieldContainer *orig)

static SoFieldContainer *	findCopy (const SoFieldContainer *orig, const SbBool copyconnections)

static void	copyDone (void)

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoBase
static void	initClass (void)
	Sets up initialization for data common to all instances of this class, like submitting necessary information to the Coin type system.

static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)
	This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class.

static void	addName (SoBase const base, const char const name)

static void	removeName (SoBase const base, const char const name)

static void	incrementCurrentWriteCounter (void)

static void	decrementCurrentWriteCounter (void)

static SoBase *	getNamedBase (const SbName &name, SoType type)

static int	getNamedBases (const SbName &name, SoBaseList &baselist, SoType type)

static SbBool	read (SoInput input, SoBase &base, SoType expectedtype)

static void	setInstancePrefix (const SbString &c)

static void	setTraceRefs (SbBool trace)

static SbBool	getTraceRefs (void)

static SbBool	connectRoute (SoInput *input, const SbName &fromnodename, const SbName &fromfieldname, const SbName &tonodename, const SbName &tofieldname)

static SbBool	readRoute (SoInput *input)

Public Attributes
SoSFBool	isActive

SoSFFloat	intensity

SoSFFloat	precision

SoSFFloat	quality

SoSFFloat	smoothBorder

SoSFBool	shadowCachingEnabled

SoSFFloat	visibilityNearRadius

SoSFFloat	visibilityRadius

SoSFEnum	visibilityFlag

SoSFFloat	epsilon

SoSFFloat	threshold

Public Attributes inherited from SoSeparator
SoSFEnum	renderCaching

SoSFEnum	boundingBoxCaching

SoSFEnum	renderCulling

SoSFEnum	pickCulling

Protected Member Functions
virtual const SoFieldData *	getFieldData (void) const

virtual	~SoShadowGroup ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoSeparator
virtual	~SoSeparator ()

virtual SbBool	cullTest (SoState *state)

virtual SbBool	cullTest (SoGLRenderAction *action, int &cullresults)

virtual SbBool	readInstance (SoInput *in, unsigned short flags)

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoGroup
virtual	~SoGroup ()

virtual SbBool	readChildren (SoInput *in)

virtual void	copyContents (const SoFieldContainer *from, SbBool copyconnections)

virtual SoNotRec	createNotRec (void)

void	setOperation (const SoNotRec::OperationType opType=SoNotRec::UNSPECIFIED, const SoNode cc=NULL, const SoNode pc=NULL, const int ci=-1)

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoNode
	SoNode (void)

virtual	~SoNode ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoFieldContainer
	SoFieldContainer (void)

virtual	~SoFieldContainer ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoBase
	SoBase (void)

virtual	~SoBase ()

virtual void	destroy (void)

SbBool	hasMultipleWriteRefs (void) const

SbBool	writeHeader (SoOutput *out, SbBool isgroup, SbBool isengine) const

void	writeFooter (SoOutput *out) const

virtual const char *	getFileFormatName (void) const

Static Protected Member Functions
static const SoFieldData **	getFieldDataPtr (void)

Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoSeparator
static const SoFieldData **	getFieldDataPtr (void)

Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoGroup
static const SoFieldData **	getFieldDataPtr (void)

Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoNode
static const SoFieldData **	getFieldDataPtr (void)

static void	setNextActionMethodIndex (int index)

static int	getNextActionMethodIndex (void)

static void	incNextActionMethodIndex (void)

static void	setCompatibilityTypes (const SoType &nodetype, const uint32_t bitmask)

Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoBase
static uint32_t	getCurrentWriteCounter (void)

static void	staticDataLock (void)

static void	staticDataUnlock (void)

Additional Inherited Members
Protected Types inherited from SoBase
enum	BaseFlags { IS_ENGINE = 0x01, IS_GROUP = 0x02 }

Protected Attributes inherited from SoGroup
SoChildList *	children

Protected Attributes inherited from SoNode
uint32_t	uniqueId

Protected Attributes inherited from SoFieldContainer
SbBool	isBuiltIn

Static Protected Attributes inherited from SoNode
static uint32_t	nextUniqueId = 1

static int	nextActionMethodIndex = 0

Detailed Description

The SoShadowGroup node is a group node used for shadow rendering.

Children of this node can recieve shadows, and cast shadows on other children. Use the SoShadowStyle node to control shadow casters and shadow receivers.

Please note that all shadow casters will be rendered twice. Once to create the shadow map, and once for normal rendering. If you're having performance issues, you should consider reducing the number of shadow casters.

The algorithm used to render the shadows is Variance Shadow Maps (http://www.punkuser.net/vsm/). As an extra bonus, all geometry rendered with shadows can also be rendered with per fragment phong lighting.

This node will search its subgraph and calculate shadows for all SoSpotLight nodes. The node will use one texture unit for each spot light, so for this node to work 100%, you need to have num-spotlights free texture units while rendering the subgraph.

Currently, we only support scenes with maximum two texture units active while doing shadow rendering (unit 0 and unit 1). This is due to the fact that we emulate the OpenGL shading model in a shader program, and we're still working on creating a solution that updates the shader program during the scene graph traversal. Right now a shader program is created when entering the SoShadowGroup node, and this is used for the entire subgraph.

FILE FORMAT/DEFAULTS:

SoShadowGroup {
  isActive TRUE
  intensity 0.5
  precision 0.5
  quality 0.5
  shadowCachingEnabled TRUE
  visibilityRadius -1.0
  visibilityFlag LONGEST_BBOX_EDGE_FACTOR
  epsilon 0.00001
  threshold 0.1
  smoothBorder 0.0
}

Example scene graph:

#Inventor V2.1 ascii
# to get some lighting when headlight is turned off in the viewer
DirectionalLight { direction 0 0 -1 intensity 0.2 }
ShadowGroup {
  quality 1 # to get per pixel lighting
  ShadowStyle { style NO_SHADOWING }
  SpotLight {
    location -8 -8 8.0
    direction 1 1 -1
    cutOffAngle 0.35
    dropOffRate 0.7
  }
  ShadowStyle { style CASTS_SHADOW_AND_SHADOWED }
  Separator {
    Complexity { value 1.0 }
    Material { diffuseColor 1 1 0 specularColor 1 1 1 shininess 0.9 }
    Shuttle { translation0 -3 1 0 translation1 3 -5 0 speed 0.25 on TRUE }
    Translation { translation -5 0 2 }
    Sphere { radius 2.0 }
  }
  Separator {
    Material { diffuseColor 1 0 0 specularColor 1 1 1 shininess 0.9 }
    Shuttle { translation0 0 -5 0 translation1 0 5 0 speed 0.15 on TRUE }
    Translation { translation 0 0 -3 }
    Cube { depth 1.8 }
  }
  Separator {
    Material { diffuseColor 0 1 0 specularColor 1 1 1 shininess 0.9 }
    Shuttle { translation0 -5 0 0 translation1 5 0 0 speed 0.3 on TRUE }
    Translation { translation 0 0 -3 }
    Cube { }
  }
  ShadowStyle { style SHADOWED }
  Coordinate3 { point [ -10 -10 -3, 10 -10 -3, 10 10 -3, -10 10 -3 ] }
  Material { specularColor 1 1 1 shininess 0.9 }
  Complexity { textureQuality 0.1 }
  Texture2 { image 2 2 3 0xffffff 0x225588 0x225588 0xffffff }
  Texture2Transform { scaleFactor 4 4 }
  FaceSet { numVertices 4 }
}

Since: Coin 2.5

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SoShadowGroup::SoShadowGroup ( void )

Default constructor.

SoShadowGroup::~SoShadowGroup ( )

protectedvirtual

Destructor.

Member Function Documentation

SoType SoShadowGroup::getTypeId ( void ) const

virtual

Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoBase. This is used for run-time type checking and "downward" casting.

Usage example:

void foo(SoNode * node)
{
  if (node->getTypeId() == SoFile::getClassTypeId()) {
    SoFile * filenode = (SoFile *)node;  // safe downward cast, knows the type
  }
}

For application programmers wanting to extend the library with new nodes, engines, nodekits, draggers or others: this method needs to be overridden in all subclasses. This is typically done as part of setting up the full type system for extension classes, which is usually accomplished by using the pre-defined macros available through for instance Inventor/nodes/SoSubNode.h (SO_NODE_INIT_CLASS and SO_NODE_CONSTRUCTOR for node classes), Inventor/engines/SoSubEngine.h (for engine classes) and so on.

For more information on writing Coin extensions, see the class documentation of the toplevel superclasses for the various class groups.

Reimplemented from SoSeparator.

const SoFieldData * SoShadowGroup::getFieldData ( void ) const

protectedvirtual

Returns a pointer to the class-wide field data storage object for this instance. If no fields are present, returns NULL.

Reimplemented from SoSeparator.

SbBool SoShadowGroup::isSupported ( void )

static

Reports whether or not the shadow nodes can be used successfully on the current system.

The result will depend on the specific qualities of the graphics card and OpenGL driver on the system.

An important note about this function:

The API design of this function has a serious shortcoming, as features of OpenGL should be tested within an OpenGL context, and this function does not provide any means of specifying the context. It is implemented in this manner to match the function signature in TGS Inventor, for compatibility reasons.

(A temporary offscreen OpenGL context is set up for the feature tests. This should usually be sufficient to decide whether or not the graphics driver / card supports the features needed for rendering shadows.)

Since: Coin 3.1

void SoShadowGroup::GLRenderBelowPath ( SoGLRenderAction * action )

virtual

SGI Open Inventor v2.1 obsoleted support for SoGLRenderAction::addMethod(). Instead, GLRender() might be called directly, and to optimize traversal, the SoSeparator node calls GLRenderBelowPath whenever the path code is BELOW_PATH or NO_PATH (path code is guaranteed not to change). To be compatible with SGI's Inventor (and thereby also TGS') we have chosen to follow their implementation in this respect.

SoSeparator::GLRenderBelowPath() do not traverse its children using SoChildList::traverse(), but calls GLRenderBelowPath() directly for all its children.

Reimplemented from SoSeparator.

void SoShadowGroup::GLRenderInPath ( SoGLRenderAction * action )

virtual

Implements the SoAction::IN_PATH traversal method for the rendering action.

Reimplemented from SoSeparator.

void SoShadowGroup::notify ( SoNotList * l )

virtual

Notifies all auditors for this instance when changes are made.

Reimplemented from SoSeparator.

void SoShadowGroup::enableSubgraphSearchOnNotify ( const SbBool onoff )

By default, the SoShadowGroup node will search its subgraph for new spot lights whenever a group node under it is touched. However, this might lead to bad performance in some cases so it's possible to disable this feature using this method. If you do disable this feature, make sure you enable it again before inserting a new spot light, or insert all spot lights in the scene graph before you render the scene once, and just set "on" to FALSE if you want to toggle spot lights on/off on the fly.

Since: Coin 2.6

Member Data Documentation

SoSFBool SoShadowGroup::isActive

Use this field to turn shadow rendering for the subgraph on/off. Default value is TRUE.

SoSFFloat SoShadowGroup::intensity

Not used yet. Provided for TGS Inventor compatibility.

SoSFFloat SoShadowGroup::precision

Use to calculate the size of the shadow map. A precision of 1.0 means the maximum shadow buffer size will be used (typically 2048x2048 on current graphics cards). Default value is 0.5.

SoSFFloat SoShadowGroup::quality

Can be used to tune the shader program complexity. A higher value will mean that more calculations are done per-fragment instead of per-vertex. Default value is 0.5.

SoSFInt32 SoShadowGroup::smoothBorder

SoShadowGroup::VisibilityFlag SoShadowGroup::ABSOLUTE_RADIUS

The absolute values of visibilityNearRadius and visibilityRadius will be used.

SoShadowGroup::VisibilityFlag SoShadowGroup::LONGEST_BBOX_EDGE_FACTOR

The longest bbox edge will be used to determine near and far clipping planes.

SoShadowGroup::VisibilityFlag SoShadowGroup::PROJECTED_BBOX_DEPTH_FACTOR

The bbox depth (projected to face the camera) will be used to calculate the clipping planes.

We have some problems with this feature so it's not supported at the moment.

Used to add shadow border smoothing. This is currently done as a post processing step on the shadow map. The algorithm used is Gauss Smoothing, but in the future we'll probably change this, and use a summed area sampling merhod instead. The value should be a number between 0 (no smoothing), and 1 (max smoothing).

If you want to enable smoothing, choosing a low value (~0.1) works best in the current implementation.

Default value is 0.0.

SoSFBool SoShadowGroup::shadowCachingEnabled

Not used yet. Provided for TGS Inventor compatibility.

SoSFFloat SoShadowGroup::visibilityNearRadius

Can be used to manually set the near clipping plane of the shadow maps. If a negative value is provided, the group will calculate a near plane based on the bounding box of the children. Default value is -1.0.

See also: visibilityFlag

SoSFFloat SoShadowGroup::visibilityRadius

Can be used to manually set the far clipping plane of the shadow maps. If a negative value is provided, the group will calculate a near plane based on the bounding box of the children. Default value is -1.0.

See also: visibilityFlag

SoSFEnum SoShadowGroup::visibilityFlag

Determines how visibilityRadius and visibilitNearRadius is used to calculate near and far clipping planes for the shadow volume.

SoSFFloat SoShadowGroup::epsilon

Epsilon is used to offset the shadow map depth from the model depth. Should be set to as low a number as possible without causing flickering in the shadows or on non-shadowed objects. Default value is 0.00001.

SoSFFloat SoShadowGroup::threshold

Can be used to avoid light bleeding in merged shadows cast from different objects.

A threshold to completely eliminate all light bleeding can be computed from the ratio of overlapping occluder distances from the light's perspective. See http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=38165 for a discussion about this problem.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

SoShadowGroup.h
SoShadowGroup.cpp

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Static Public Member Functions

Public Attributes

Protected Member Functions

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Detailed Description

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Member Function Documentation

Member Data Documentation