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kiza YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 24	3D window and 2D GUI window Jan 3^rd, 2009, 8:15pm Hey, I'm using Damkjer's OCD lib for camera control. I'm altering it thought for some specific functions..Nice lib btw, thx. Anyone know how to make a kind of a split screen mode, where in one I have the camera with 3d interaction and the other only GUI elements? Like in 3D modeling software like blender3d or 3ds Max..

sojamo Senior Member Offline Posts: 388	Re: 3D window and 2D GUI window Reply #1 - Jan 4^th, 2009, 4:50am you can try the controlP5 library. the ControlP5window example shows you how to use an extra window with different gui elements to control the main window sketch.
	andreas schlegel / http://www.sojamo.de

kiza YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 24	Re: 3D window and 2D GUI window Reply #2 - Jan 10^th, 2009, 3:10pm thx for the reply sojamo. Was hoping there was another way..I'll see if I can do something with translation and scaling..

Re: 3D window and 2D GUI window
Reply #3 - Jan 11^th, 2009, 3:02am

if u're using opengl mode, look for glViewport(). you can set the render viewport to half screen and use the other "side" to render your GUI using controlP5.

perspective( ... );
camera( ... );
_gl.glViewport( 0, 0, width/2, height );

// do your render here for half screen

// restore viewport.
_gl.glViewport( 0, 0, width, height );

Victor Martins | www.pixelnerve.com/v

Edvin_Besic

Re: 3D window and 2D GUI window
Reply #4 - Jan 22^nd, 2009, 2:57pm

Also, if you just want to open another processing window, you can do it like so:

public class UIWindow extends PApplet
{
Frame frame;
int width;
int height;

UIWindow ( int w, int h )
{
width = w;
height = h;
frame = new Frame( );
frame.setBounds( 0, 0, width, height );
frame.setLocation( 0, 0 );
frame.add( this );
this.init( );
frame.show( );
}

void setup( )
{
size( width, height, P2D );
frameRate( 20 );
frame.setTitle( "MySecondFrame" );
}

void draw ( )
{
background( 128 );
}
}

Then you simply init the window in your main applet, like so:

UIWindow uiWindow;

void setup( )
{
... whatever you do now ...
uiWindow = new UIWindow( 640, 480 );
}

You can either let the second window handle it's own drawing or do a noLoop
and call redraw whenever you want to refresh the view. You call any function
in the main applet from within ui window so you can communicate back to
your main view.

Hope this helps.

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