RE: Find Cameras in scene

[Matt Lind]

I would apply a custom property to the scene cameras and perform a FindObjects() on the Custom Property.

 

 

Matt

 

 

 

 

 

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:20 AM
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Subject: Re: Find Cameras in scene

 

Just curious. In a scene with thousands of X3DObjects, which code technique is the fastest for selecting only scene cameras and not view cams?

[Alok Gandhi]

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[Peter Agg]

Just out of interest: Would that be quicker than using the FindChildren2 method on the Scene Root?

[Martin]

FindObjects is the fastest method you have. I think you can't use FindObjects to filter cameras though. Not without adding a Custom Property like Matt said.

Since I usually use old SI versions I haven't test FindObjects2 too much but I guess it is quite fast too.

You could use FindObjects2 and then filter the view ones. I guess that would be faster than FindChildren2 if you have thousands of objects but it's just a guess.

Martin Yara

[Peter Agg]

I guess I'm just wondering whether it's quicker when you take into account having to add the custom property/datablob to all the cameras. Though, now I've said that - wouldn't you need to get all the scene cameras first so you can set the custom property on them to designate them as being a scene camera...?

(presuming you don't have a standard camera model or somesuch, anyway)

[Stephen Blair]

FindObjects2 appears to be fastest, even with filtering.
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From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin
Sent: March-29-12 5:03 AM
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Subject: Re: Find Cameras in scene

FindObjects is the fastest method you have. I think you can't use FindObjects to filter cameras though. Not without adding a Custom Property like Matt said.

Since I usually use old SI versions I haven't test FindObjects2 too much but I guess it is quite fast too.
You could use FindObjects2 and then filter the view ones. I guess that would be faster than FindChildren2 if you have thousands of objects but it's just a guess.

Martin Yara

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Peter Agg <pete...@googlemail.com<mailto:pete...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
Just out of interest: Would that be quicker than using the FindChildren2 method on the Scene Root?

On 28 March 2012 21:02, Alok Gandhi <alok....@modusfx.com<mailto:alok....@modusfx.com>> wrote:
Or user data blobs / user key words

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On 3/28/2012 2:31 PM, Matt Lind wrote:
I would apply a custom property to the scene cameras and perform a FindObjects() on the Custom Property.

Matt

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Subject: Re: Find Cameras in scene

Just curious. In a scene with thousands of X3DObjects, which code technique is the fastest for selecting only scene cameras and not view cams?

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[Matt Lind]

You can use FindObjects() to filter cameras directly

 

The reason FilterObjects() / FilterObjects2() are faster is because they query the scene’s internal database like a SQL query whereas FindChildren() crawls the scene graph (or, at least that’s what I’ve been lead to believe based on past discussions).  As long as your target data can be easily identified to stand out from the crowd, FindObjects() will be the faster way to search.  The (potential) downside is if you search for cameras using FindObjects(), it will return all the cameras including those outside the scene scope such as the view cameras.  To restrict the search, apply metadata (such as a self installing custom property) to the cameras you’re interested in locating and do the query on that metadata.  That’ll ensure the returned results are more directly relevant.  The other option is to filter the returned results by a 2^nd criteria.  In the case of scene cameras, the 2^nd criteria would be to test if the camera is inside a model.  If so, it’s in the scene, otherwise it’s likely a view camera.

 

This will return all cameras not just those under the scene root:

 

                var oConstants = new Constants();

 

                // Get all cameras in scene

                var CLSID_CAMERAS = "{5FC0CCAE-3DC8-11D0-9449-00AA006D3165}";

                var oItems        = FindObjects( "", CLSID_CAMERAS );

 

                if ( !oItems ) {

                                LogMessage( "[" + oConstants.PRG + "] No cameras found in scene", siError );

                                return(1);

                }

 

                // Get display setting for first camera (to be applied on all other cameras)

                var oCameras = SIFilter( oItems, siCameraFilter, true, siQuickSearch );

 

                if ( !oCameras || oCameras.Count <= 0 ) {

                                LogMessage( "[" + oConstants.PRG + "] No cameras found", siError );

                                return(1);   

                }

 

                …

 

 

 

 

 

Matt

 

 

 

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:03 AM
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Find Cameras in scene

 

FindObjects is the fastest method you have. I think you can't use FindObjects to filter cameras though. Not without adding a Custom Property like Matt said.

 

Since I usually use old SI versions I haven't test FindObjects2 too much but I guess it is quite fast too.

You could use FindObjects2 and then filter the view ones. I guess that would be faster than FindChildren2 if you have thousands of objects but it's just a guess.

 

Martin Yara

 

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Peter Agg <pete...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Just out of interest: Would that be quicker than using the FindChildren2 method on the Scene Root?

On 28 March 2012 21:02, Alok Gandhi <alok....@modusfx.com> wrote:

Or user data blobs / user key words