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OpenVRCylinder

vtk-examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/OpenVRCylinder

Description

This example demonstrates rendering of a Cylinder in OpenVR.

Note that for the interactions to work in VTK >= 9.1, you will have to copy the .json manifest files from the subfolder Rendering/OpenVR in VTK's source to the working directory in which the tests are run!

Question

If you have a question about this example, please use the VTK Discourse Forum

Code

OpenVRCylinder.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkCylinderSource.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkNew.h>
#include <vtkOpenVRRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkOpenVRRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkOpenVRRenderer.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>

int main(int, char* argv[])
{
  // Create a sphere
  vtkNew<vtkCylinderSource> cylinderSource;
  cylinderSource->SetCenter(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
  cylinderSource->SetRadius(5.0);
  cylinderSource->SetHeight(7.0);
  cylinderSource->SetResolution(100);

  // Create a mapper and actor
  vtkNew<vtkNamedColors> colors;
  vtkNew<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper;
  mapper->SetInputConnection(cylinderSource->GetOutputPort());
  vtkNew<vtkActor> actor;
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);

  // Create a renderer, render window, and interactor
  vtkNew<vtkOpenVRRenderer> renderer;
  vtkNew<vtkOpenVRRenderWindow> renderWindow;
  renderWindow->Initialize();
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  renderWindow->SetWindowName("OpenVRCylinder");
  vtkNew<vtkOpenVRRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor;
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);

  // Add the actor to the scene
  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("ForestGreen").GetData());
  // Render and interact
  renderWindow->Render();
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(OpenVRCylinder)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  CommonColor
  CommonCore
  CommonDataModel
  FiltersSources
  InteractionStyle
  RenderingContextOpenGL2
  RenderingCore
  RenderingFreeType
  RenderingGL2PSOpenGL2
  RenderingOpenGL2
  RenderingOpenVR
)

if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "OpenVRCylinder: Unable to find the VTK build folder.")
endif()

# Prevent a "command line is too long" failure in Windows.
set(CMAKE_NINJA_FORCE_RESPONSE_FILE "ON" CACHE BOOL "Force Ninja to use response files.")
add_executable(OpenVRCylinder MACOSX_BUNDLE OpenVRCylinder.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(OpenVRCylinder PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
# vtk_module_autoinit is needed
vtk_module_autoinit(
  TARGETS OpenVRCylinder
  MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)

Download and Build OpenVRCylinder

Click here to download OpenVRCylinder and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball OpenVRCylinder.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd OpenVRCylinder/build

If VTK is installed:

cmake ..

If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:

cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

Build the project:

make

and run it:

./OpenVRCylinder

WINDOWS USERS

Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.