Package com.openinventor.inventor.draggers

Class SoSpotLightDragger

java.lang.Object
com.openinventor.inventor.Inventor
com.openinventor.inventor.misc.SoBase
com.openinventor.inventor.fields.SoFieldContainer
com.openinventor.inventor.nodes.SoNode
com.openinventor.inventor.nodekits.SoBaseKit
com.openinventor.inventor.nodekits.SoInteractionKit
com.openinventor.inventor.draggers.SoDragger
com.openinventor.inventor.draggers.SoSpotLightDragger
All Implemented Interfaces:
SafeDisposable
public class SoSpotLightDragger extends SoDragger
Spotlight shaped dragger that allows you to change position, direction, and width of the beam. SoSpotLightDragger is a composite dragger. It is shaped like a beam of light emanating from a sun-like ball. An arrow runs along the axis of the beam and extends past the end of the beam.

When you click and drag the beam, it opens and closes with an umbrella-like motion. The angle between the center and edge of the beam is stored in the angle field of this dragger; setting the angle field causes the beam to widen or narrow in response. The spotlight dragger does not use a standard dragger class to execute this motion. More details are given later in this section.

Dragging the arrow rotates it around the sun, and the beam moves with it. The arrow is an SoRotateSphericalDragger that controls the rotation field. See the reference page for SoDirectionalLightDragger, which works the same way, for details.

The sun-shape can be dragged to translate all three pieces together through 3-space. Its movement controls the translation field and works exactly as described in the reference pages for SoDirectionalLightDragger and SoPointLightDragger (which goes into more detail).

Remember: This is not a light source! It just looks like one. If you want to move a light with this dragger, you can do the following:

  • Use an SoSpotLightManip, which is subclassed from SoLight. It creates an SoSpotLightDragger and uses it as the interface to change the location , direction , and cutOffAngle of its light source (see the SoSpotLightManip reference page). The manip also edits the material part of this dragger to match the color of light the manip is producing.
  • Connect the angle field of this dragger to the cutOffAngle field of an SoSpotLight with a field-to-field connection.

See the SoPointLightDragger and SoDirectionalLightDragger reference pages for other ways to control light parameters with the rotation and translation fields.

This class creates its own projector and handles mouse events to do its own dragging of the beam angle. When the mouse picks a point on the beam, that point is dragged in a circle just like in an SoRotateDiscDragger, but the plane of the disc is re-defined every time a drag is initiated. Imagine placing the metal tip of a compass at the apex of the cone and the pencil tip at the picked point. If you swing an arc through the central axis of the cone, you will be drawing the arc used to drag the beam open and closed.

The beam is opened and closed not by rotating, but by scaling. The dragger scales the beam-cone so that the height and radius change to move the picked point along the circle. Then the angle field is calculated from the height and radius.

You can change the geometry of parts in any instance of this dragger using setPart(). The default part geometries are defined as resources for this SoSpotLightDragger class. They are detailed below in the DRAGGER RESOURCE section. You can make your program use different default resources for the parts by copying the file $OIVHOME/data/draggerDefaults/spotLightDragger.iv into your own directory, editing the file, and then setting the environment variable SO_DRAGGER_DIR to be a path to that directory.

See SoDragger for more information about using and customizing draggers, including code examples, using draggers in an immersive VR environment and using WYSIWYG draggers.

File format/default:

SpotLightDragger {

    boundingBoxCaching AUTO
    renderCulling AUTO
    pickCulling AUTO
    isActive false
    rotation 0 0 1 0
    translation 0 0 0
    angle 1
    callbackList NULL
    material <spotLightOverallMaterial resource>
    translator DragPointDragger { }
    rotator RotateSphericalDragger { }
    beamPlacement <spotLightBeamPlacement resource>
    beamScale Scale {
    scaleFactor 0.841471 0.841471 0.540302
    }
    beam <spotLightBeam resource>
    beamActive <spotLightBeamActive resource>
    rotator.rotator <spotLightRotatorRotator resource>
    rotator.rotatorActive <spotLightRotatorRotatorActive resource>
    rotator.feedback <spotLightRotatorFeedback resource>
    rotator.feedbackActive <spotLightRotatorFeedbackActive resource>
    translator.yzTranslator.translator <spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslator resource>
    translator.xzTranslator.translator <spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslator resource>
    translator.xyTranslator.translator <spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslator resource>
    translator.yzTranslator.translatorActive <spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslatorActive resource>
    translator.xzTranslator.translatorActive <spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslatorActive resource>
    translator.xyTranslator.translatorActive <spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslatorActive resource>
    translator.xTranslator.translator <spotLightTranslatorLineTranslator resource>
    translator.yTranslator.translator <spotLightTranslatorLineTranslator resource>
    translator.zTranslator.translator <spotLightTranslatorLineTranslator resource>
    translator.xTranslator.translatorActive <spotLightTranslatorLineTranslatorActive resource>
    translator.yTranslator.translatorActive <spotLightTranslatorLineTranslatorActive resource>
    translator.zTranslator.translatorActive <spotLightTranslatorLineTranslatorActive resource>
}

DRAGGER RESOURCES

    Resource: spotLightBeam
    Part: beam
    Appearance: wireframe cone with no SoMaterial node
    Description: picking this initiates dragging of the beam angle. The beam inherits colors from the material part, just like the stationary version of the sun shape.

    Resource: spotLightBeamActive
    Part: beamActive
    Appearance: yellow wireframe cone
    Description: displayed during dragging of the beam angle.

    Resource: spotLightBeamPlacement
    Part: beamPlacement
    Appearance: translation of (0,0,-1)
    Description: This translation node moves the beam parts relative to the rest of the dragger. In this case, moving by (0,0,-1) slides the cone outward along rotator part toward its arrowhead. The distance chosen places the apex of the cone on the surface of the sun shape.

    Resource: spotLightRotatorRotator
    Part: rotator.rotator
    Appearance: white arrow that goes through the sun
    Description: picking this begins rotation of the arrow about the sun-shape

    Resource: spotLightRotatorRotatorActive
    Part: rotator.rotatorActive
    Appearance: yellow arrow that goes through the sun
    Description: displayed while the arrow is being rotated

    Resource: spotLightRotatorFeedback
    Part: rotator.feedback
    Appearance: empty Separator
    Description: this disables display of the axes that a rotateSpherical dragger uses by default

    Resource: spotLightRotatorFeedbackActive
    Part: rotator.feedbackActive
    Appearance: empty Separator
    Description: this disables display of the axes that a rotateSpherical dragger uses by default

    Resource: spotLightOverallMaterial
    Part: material
    Appearance: white. half strength emissive, half strength diffuse
    Description: sets material for the sun shape when stationary. Resource for the moving sun, spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslatorActive, contains a yellow material for highlighting.

    Resource: spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslator
    Parts: translator.yzTranslator.translator<BR> translator.xzTranslator.translator<BR> translator.xyTranslator.translator
    Appearance: sun shape with no material
    Description: picking these parts initiates dragging by the yz, xz, and xy planar draggers respectively.

    Resource: spotLightTranslatorPlaneTranslatorActive
    Parts: translator.yzTranslator.translatorActive<BR> translator.xzTranslator.translatorActive<BR> translator.xyTranslator.translatorActive
    Appearance: yellow sun shape
    Description: shown during planar dragging in the yz, xz, and xy planes respectively.

    Resource: spotLightTranslatorLineTranslator
    Parts: translator.xTranslator.translator<BR> translator.yTranslator.translator<BR> translator.zTranslator.translator
    Appearance: white cylinder
    Description: picking these parts initiates dragging in the x, y, and z linear draggers respectively.

    Resource: spotLightTranslatorLineTranslatorActive
    Parts: translator.xTranslator.translatorActive<BR> translator.yTranslator.translatorActive<BR> translator.zTranslator.translatorActive
    Appearance: yellow cylinder
    Description: shown during linear dragging in the x, y, and z directions respectively.

CATALOG PARTS

All Parts

    Part NamePart TypeDefault TypeNULL Default
    callbackList NodeKitListPart yes
    material Material yes
    translator DragPointDragger yes
    rotator RotateSphericalDragger yes
    beamPlacement Translation yes
    beamScale Scale yes
    beam Separator yes
    beamActive Separator yes

Extra Information for List Parts from Above Table

    Part NameContainer TypePossible Types
    callbackList Separator Callback, EventCallback

See Also:

  • Field Details

    • rotation

      public final SoSFRotation rotation
      Orientation of the rotating part (an arrow by default).

    • translation

      public final SoSFVec3f translation
      Position of the dragger.

    • angle

      public final SoSFFloat angle
      Angle between center and edge of beam.

  • Constructor Details

    • SoSpotLightDragger

      public SoSpotLightDragger()
      Constructor.

  • Method Details