VR-Vantage Examples

VR-Vantage includes many examples of how to modify or extend a VR-Vantage application using the VR-Vantage Toolkit.

Most examples show how to extend VR-Vantage using plug-ins. Examples consist of source code and a brief description of what the code does.

VR-Vantage also provides tutorials, which are lengthier, guided descriptions of how to use the Toolkit.

For more information about extending VR-Vantage examples, see Building a New VR-Vantage Application and Creating a Plug-in.

Alphabetical List of Examples

• exampleAccessory - Shows how to create an accessory to extend a driver.
• exampleBulletHole - Shows how to create a visualizer to display a detonation interaction as a bullet hole.
• exampleChannelPlugin - A plugin that registers a new channel.
• exampleCigiExtension - Creates an accessory that installs itself into DtCigiDriver objects and hooks into signals that are triggered when particular CIGI messages are received.
• exampleCloudDriver - Creates a new driver that demonstrates how to create clouds based on an external data source and how to dynamically move those clouds based on wind.
• exampleConfiguration - Creates a display configuration that has two windows. Each window will have one channel.
• exampleCoordinateDisplay - Shows how to add a new coordinate system and integrate it with the applications coordinate display settings.
• exampleCreator - Creates and registers your own channel with the DtDisplayEngine. This example demonstrates the Creator Pattern.
• exampleCreateObserver - Creates a VR-Vantage application with an additional observer.
• exampleCustom - Build a custom application using the DtVrvApplication framework.
• exampleDialogPage - Shows how to add a page to a dialog box.
• exampleDisConnection - Shows how to build an application that connects to DIS.
• exampleDisplayUnits - Shows how to use convert values and display them using the application's display units settings.
• exampleDistributedDraw - Creates a driver that that controls a distributed draw object.
• exampleDistributedObject - Creates a distributed object that loads a model and rotates it using an agent.
• exampleDrawObjects - Shows how to use the vrvControlToolkit to draw objects in Vantage.
• exampleDriver - Create your own driver and use it to put an entity in the scene.
• exampleDriverPlugin - Create your own driver and use it to put an entity in the scene.
• exampleEmbedded - Builds a QT application with Master Display Engine embedded in it.
• exampleEmbeddedSlave - Builds a QT application with Slave Display Engine embedded in it.
• exampleEventProcessor - Create and registers an event processor.
• exampleExtendDialogByAddition - Shows how to extend an existing Dialog by simply adding a new GUI element to it. Does not follow humble-dialog pattern.
• exampleExtendDialogByDerivation - Shows how to extend an existing dialog (adding more features) through derivation.
• exampleFomMapper - Shows how to use an extended FOM and visualizes the new attributes.
• exampleHla13Connection - Shows how to build an application that connects to HLA 13.
• exampleHudUpdater - Shows how to add custom updaters for GL Studio cockpit displays.
• exampleHumbleDialog - Shows how to create a custom Humble Dialog that is displayed with a custom menu.
• exampleKeyMap - Register a function with the Key Map Manager, and binds it to a key event in a given key map.
• exampleLogo - Shows how to add a 2D overlay to a channel so that you can display graphics such as a logo.
• exampleMFC - Shows how to embed VR-Vantage in an MFC application.
• exampleModelArticulation - Shows how to load an articulated ModelInstance, add it to a scene-root in a DtOsgRenderer and animate its articulated parts.
• exampleModelArticulationDistributed - Shows how to load a distributed articulation model and move the different parts using an agent.
• exampleModelInstance - Shows how to load a ModelInstance with a geometry file from disk and add it to a scene-root in a DtOsgRenderer.
• exampleMultipleChannels - A VR-Vantage Renderer example showing how to multiple windows, each with multiple channels rendering a different model-set.
• exampleOpenGLSimple - Shows how to create a simple OpenGL application that renders a cube with lighting.
• exampleOpenGLTransforms - Shows how to create a simple OpenGL application that transforms several geometry objects.
• exampleOsgArticulation - Shows how to create a simple OpenSceneGraph application that loads a geometry file from disk, locates degree-of-freedom nodes in the geometry and articulate the geometry with those nodes.
• exampleOsgSimple - Shows how to create a simple OpenSceneGraph application that mimics exampleOpenGLSimple by displaying a cube.
• exampleOsgTransforms - Shows how to create a simple OpenSceneGraph application that mimics exampleOpenGLTransforms by creating and transforming several geometry objects.
• exampleSceneRoot - Shows how to create a very simple vrv application and add an OpenSceneGraph model directly to the scene.
• exampleSendControl - Shows how to send view control messages to Vantage using the vrvControlToolkit.
• exampleSendDrawControl - Shows how to send draw and view control messages to Vantage using the vrvControlToolkit.
• exampleSimData - Shows how to access simulation data.
• exampleSimple - Creates a simple VR-Vantage application. It instantiates the DtVrvApplication class (defined in DtVrvApplication.h), initializes it, and runs it.
• exampleSimpleAgent - Shows how to create an agent for a custom object.
• exampleSymbolDecoration - Shows how to add a symbol decoration to a 2d icon.
• exampleToolbar - Shows how to create a toolbar and add items that are part of the menu bar and items that are not part of the menu bar.
• Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Introduction - Project 1 creates a simple distributed simulation VR-Vantage plugin.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Create a Non-Threaded Connection - Project 2A updates the plugin driver with a non-threaded DIS connection.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Create a Threaded Connection - Project 2B updates the plugin driver with a threaded DIS connection.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Add a Detonation Interaction Callback - Project 3A updates the driver with the non-threaded connection using VR-Link to register a callback for receiving detonation interaction data.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Add a Detonation Listener - Project 3B updates the driver with the non-threaded connection using VR-Vantage to register a listener for receiving detonation interaction data.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Add and Remove Reflected Entity Callbacks - Project 3C updates the driver with the non-threaded connection using VR-Link to register a callback for receiving reflected entity data.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Add an Entity Existence Listener - Project 3D updates the driver with the non-threaded connection using VR-Vantage to register a listener for receiving reflected entity data.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Adding an Entity Using VR-Link - Project 4A updates the driver with the non-threaded connection using VR-Link to place an entity into the scene.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Add an Entity Using an Existing VR-Vantage Agent - Project 4B updates the driver with the non-threaded connection using a VR-Vantage agent class to place an entity into the scene.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Add an Entity Using a Custom Agent - Project 4C updates the driver with the non-threaded connection using a custom VR-Vantage agent class to place an entity into the scene.
  • Distributed Simulation Tutorial - Conclusion - Project 5 pulls the previous projects together to create a driver with a non-threaded DIS connection which listens for detonation interactions and places an entity into the scene at the coordinates associated with each given detonation.