User Guides

The user guide section provides details to users on how to use various applications associated with OpenSceneGraph, such as standard viewers, and data processing and conversion tools. == Build system and scripts that come with the OpenSceneGraph distribution ==http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Build/CDash

• CMake - the OpenSceneGraph's cmake system
• Doxygen - how to build Doxygen documentation

Applications that come with the OpenSceneGraph distribution

• osgviewer - scene graph viewer
• osgconv - database conversion tool
• osgarchive - scene graph archiving tool
• osgdem - geospecific terrain database generation tool (separated into the VirtualPlanetBuilder project).

Examples that come with the OpenSceneGraph distribution

• Examples - an overview of the how to run the examples

Plugins that come with the OpenSceneGraph distribution

• Plugins - an overview of the available reader and writer plugins

Applications available in the Community

• OSGEdit - scene graph composition tool
• Free OSG scene composer and editor OSG-SceneMaker (License : GNU GPL).
• Free OSG scene designer and editor OSG-Designer (License : GNU GPL).
• Free OSG scene editor OSG-SceneEdit (License : GNU GPL).

Modelling packages with OpenSceneGraph plugins.

• OSGExp - importer/exporter plugin to 3D Studio Max.
• osgMaya - importer/exporter plugin to Maya.
• Blender - script for exporting to .osg ASCII format
• DGN2OSG - Microstation DGN-importer osg-plugin based on OpenDGN from the OpenDesignAlliance

Configuring OpenSceneGraph based applications

• Environment Variables - An overview of all available environment variables
• Optimizer Options - An overview of all available optimizer options

Stereo visualization and the OpenSceneGraph

• Stereo Settings - Environmental variable and command line settings for using stereo
• Linux Stereo - tips on how to step up stereo under Linux