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SoOverlayGroup Class Reference

Group node dedicated to render multiple co-planar shapes. More...

#include <Inventor/nodes/SoOverlayGroup.h>

+ Inheritance diagram for SoOverlayGroup:

Public Member Functions

virtual SoType getTypeId () const
 Returns the type identifier for this specific instance.
 
 SoOverlayGroup ()
 Creates an empty overlay group node.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SoGroup
 SoGroup ()
 Creates an empty group node.
 
 SoGroup (int nChildren)
 Constructor that takes approximate number of children.
 
virtual void addChild (SoNode *child)
 Adds a child as last one in group.
 
virtual void insertChild (SoNode *child, int newChildIndex)
 Adds a child so that it becomes the one with the given index.
 
virtual SoNodegetChild (int index) const
 Returns pointer the child node with the given index.
 
virtual int findChild (const SoNode *child) const
 Finds index of given child within group.
 
virtual int getNumChildren () const
 Returns number of children.
 
virtual void removeChild (int index)
 Removes child with given index from group.
 
virtual void removeChild (SoNode *child)
 Removes first instance of given child from group.
 
virtual void removeAllChildren ()
 Removes all children from group.
 
virtual void replaceChild (int index, SoNode *newChild)
 Replaces child with given index with new child.
 
virtual void replaceChild (SoNode *oldChild, SoNode *newChild)
 Replaces first instance of given child with new child.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SoNode
virtual void setOverride (const SbBool state)
 Turns the override flag on or off.
 
virtual SbBool isOverride () const
 Returns the state of the override flag.
 
virtual SoNodecopy (SbBool copyConnections=FALSE) const
 Creates and returns an exact copy of the node.
 
virtual SbBool affectsState () const
 Returns TRUE if a node has an effect on the state during traversal.
 
virtual void touch ()
 Marks an instance as modified, simulating a change to it.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SoFieldContainer
void setToDefaults ()
 Sets all fields in this object to their default values.
 
SbBool hasDefaultValues () const
 Returns TRUE if all of the object's fields have their default values.
 
SbBool fieldsAreEqual (const SoFieldContainer *fc) const
 Returns TRUE if this object's fields are exactly equal to fc's fields.
 
void copyFieldValues (const SoFieldContainer *fc, SbBool copyConnections=FALSE)
 Copies the contents of fc's fields into this object's fields.
 
SoNONUNICODE SbBool set (const char *fieldDataString)
 Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string, which should be a string in the Open Inventor file format.
 
SbBool set (const SbString &fieldDataString)
 Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string, which should be a string in the Open Inventor file format.
 
void get (SbString &fieldDataString)
 Returns the values of the fields of this object in the Open Inventor ASCII file format in the given string.
 
virtual int getFields (SoFieldList &list) const
 Appends references to all of this object's fields to resultList, and returns the number of fields appended.
 
virtual int getAllFields (SoFieldList &list) const
 Returns a list of fields, including the eventIn's and eventOut's.
 
virtual SoFieldgetField (const SbName &fieldName) const
 Returns a the field of this object whose name is fieldName.
 
virtual SoFieldgetEventIn (const SbName &fieldName) const
 Returns a the eventIn with the given name.
 
virtual SoFieldgetEventOut (const SbName &fieldName) const
 Returns the eventOut with the given name.
 
SbBool getFieldName (const SoField *field, SbName &fieldName) const
 Returns the name of the given field in the fieldName argument.
 
SbBool enableNotify (SbBool flag)
 Notification at this Field Container is enabled (if flag == TRUE) or disabled (if flag == FALSE).
 
SbBool isNotifyEnabled () const
 Notification is the process of telling interested objects that this object has changed.
 
virtual void setUserData (void *data)
 Sets application data.
 
void * getUserData (void) const
 Gets user application data.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SoBase
virtual SbName getName () const
 Returns the name of an instance.
 
virtual void setName (const SbName &name)
 Sets the name of an instance.
 
void setSynchronizable (const bool b)
 Sets this to be a ScaleViz synchronizable object.
 
bool isSynchronizable () const
 Gets the ScaleViz synchronizable state of this object.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SoRefCounter
void ref () const
 Adds a reference to an instance.
 
void unref () const
 Removes a reference from an instance.
 
void unrefNoDelete () const
 unrefNoDelete() should be called when it is desired to decrement the reference count, but not delete the instance if this brings the reference count to zero.
 
int getRefCount () const
 Returns current reference count.
 
void lock () const
 lock this instance.
 
void unlock () const
 unlock this instance.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SoTypedObject
SbBool isOfType (const SoType &type) const
 Returns TRUE if this object is of the type specified in type or is derived from that type.
 
template<typename TypedObjectClass >
SbBool isOfType () const
 Returns TRUE if this object is of the type of class TypedObjectClass or is derived from that class.
 

Static Public Member Functions

static SoType getClassTypeId ()
 Returns the type identifier for this class.
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoGroup
static SoType getClassTypeId ()
 Returns the type identifier for this class.
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoNode
static SoType getClassTypeId ()
 Returns the type identifier for this class.
 
static SoNodegetByName (const SbName &name)
 A node's name can be set using SoBase::setName().
 
static int getByName (const SbName &name, SoNodeList &list)
 A node's name can be set using SoBase::setName().
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoFieldContainer
static SoType getClassTypeId ()
 Returns the type of this class.
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoBase
static SoType getClassTypeId ()
 Returns type identifier for this class.
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoTypedObject
static SoType getClassTypeId ()
 Returns the type identifier for this class.
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Public Attributes inherited from SoGroup
SoSFBool boundingBoxIgnoring
 Whether to ignore this node during bounding box traversal.
 

Detailed Description

Group node dedicated to render multiple co-planar shapes.

Derived from the class SoGroup, the SoOverlayGroup node renders multiple co-planar shapes without any Z-fighting artifacts.

Overlapping co-planar shapes should be inserted as children of a SoOverlayGroup. The shapes are stacked for the rendering according to their places in the child list: the i th shape will be drawn above the i-1 th shape.

For instance, in the following picture the red square is the first shape child, and the green triangle is the second shape child of a SoOverlayGroup.

In the following picture, the green triangle is the first shape child.

In this picture, the square and the triangle are inserted in a SoGroup, which does not prevent the Z-fighting artifact where the 2 shapes overlap.

The SoOverlayGroup is only designed to correctly render planar shapes. Inserting in SoOverlayGroup spheres, cylinders, cubes or any shape whose vertices are not on a single euclidean plane may cause an unexpected rendering. However, this does not limit the SoOverlayGroup to 2D rendering. You can create several SoOverlayGroup instances, but all the shapes under an overlay group must be a planar shape and must be located on the same 3D plane. One different 3D plane per instance of SoOverlayGroup is possible as in the following picture from the example "Inventor\Features\OverlayPanels" in which each panel corresponds to one instance of an SoOverlayGroup.

The SoOverlayGroup is not designed to solve any Z-fighting artifact on 3D shapes. For instance, a correct rendering of meridian circles onto a sphere requires using either SoPolygonOffset or SoDepthOffset.

Limitations of the overlay group:

FILE FORMAT/DEFAULT

    OverlayGroup {
    }

ACTION BEHAVIOR

    Similar behavior as described in SoGroup.

SEE ALSO

SoDepthOffset, SoGroup, SoPolygonOffset, SoSeparator, SoSwitch

NOTE: node available since Open Inventor 2024.1

Definition at line 92 of file SoOverlayGroup.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ SoOverlayGroup()

SoOverlayGroup::SoOverlayGroup ( )

Creates an empty overlay group node.

Member Function Documentation

◆ getClassTypeId()

static SoType SoOverlayGroup::getClassTypeId ( )
static

Returns the type identifier for this class.


◆ getTypeId()

virtual SoType SoOverlayGroup::getTypeId ( ) const
virtual

Returns the type identifier for this specific instance.

Reimplemented from SoGroup.


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