cgkit Tutorials & Examples

• First steps: An introductory tutorial
• Materials: How to change the visual appearance of your objects
• Animation: Animating object attributes
• Rendering with RenderMan: Rendering a scene with a RenderMan compliant renderer
• Custom attributes & primitive variables: Adding new attributes to objects
• Plugins: Extending the functionality of the kit
• Rigid Body Dynamics: Using the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) to do rigid body dynamics
• Ogre3D: Using the Ogre3D viewer
• Baking texture maps: Using the render tool to bake texture maps
• Using the grow utility: How to use the grow utiltiy to place objects onto the surface of other objects

Code examples

A minimal scene

Sharing material definitions

Creating a hierarchy and using expressions

Visualizing vertex positions and normals How to iterate over all objects in the scene How to iterate over mesh vertices and faces How to access primitive variables such as normals How to process the two storage types "varying" vs "user"/"uniform int XYZfaces[3]" How to draw 3D marker and lines

How to use the spacedevice module