Introduction to Programming with OpenSceneGraph

General

• OpenSceneGraph - overview of OpenSceneGraph with links to detailed descriptions of nodes etc
• Motivations for using the OpenSceneGraph - VRLab Lecture
• How to learn about using the OpenSceneGraph - VRLab Lecture
• Image 2003 Presentation Slides: [ pdf ][ powerpoint ]
  

(You may obtain a copy of the publication by contacting the IMAGE Society)

• Design Patterns used in the OpenSceneGraph
• Mission Statement for the OpenSceneGraph project
• A Short Introduction to the Basic Principles of the Open Scene Graph: A very introductory text about OSG. Still work in progress, but can be useful as is. Comments and error reports to Leandro Motta Barros, please.
• GLSL Shading with OSG, presented at the OSG Advanced Rendering seminar at SIGGRAPH 2005.

• Drawables - explains what an OpenSceneGraph Drawable is, especially when to use DrawArrays?, DrawElements?.

Viewers, Views, and Cameras

• Views and Viewers - details about the Views and Viewers OSG provides.
• Single Viewer vs CompositeViewer - How to decide which one to use
• Cameras - details on how to use OSG's Camera class.

Programming the NodeKit libraries

• NodeKit - explains what a OpenSceneGraph NodeKit is.
• osgFX - Overview and how to use.
• shaders - Example usage.
• osgShadow - How to use.

Using the Plugins

• List of OSG plugins
• PseudoLoader - a technique for using OpenSceneGraph's PlugIn mechanism for more than just loading files.
• OpenFlight - details about the OpenFlight? reader.
• TerraPage - details about the txp or TerraPage? plugin.

Useful Code Snippets

• Analysing A Scenegraph - example of how to parse the scenegraph tree.

See Also

• Knowledge Base - Provides general background info useful scene graphs and OSG