<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi James,<br><br></div>While you attention is directed towards integrating Qt5 and OSG, have you considered the use case for offscreen rendering? In the osg::Viewer module, there are PixelBufferWin32 and PixelBufferX11 classes that implements the osg::GraphicsContext abstract class for offscreen pixelbuffer rendering on respective platforms. Ref.:<br><div><div><div><div><div><br><a href="http://trac.openscenegraph.org/documentation/OpenSceneGraphReferenceDocs/a00342.html">http://trac.openscenegraph.org/documentation/OpenSceneGraphReferenceDocs/a00342.html</a><br><br></div><div>A potential osgQt::PixelBufferQt could implement  osg::GraphicsContext using QOpenGLContext (<a href="http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qopenglcontext.html#QOpenGLContext">http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qopenglcontext.html#QOpenGLContext</a>) in conjunction with QOffscreenSurface (<a href="http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qoffscreensurface.html">http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qoffscreensurface.html</a>). This would be useful for applications providing batch rendering services.<br><br></div><div>What are your thoughts on this?<br><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div>John<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:14 AM, John Vidar Larring <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.larring@chyronhego.com" target="_blank">john.larring@chyronhego.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi James,<br><br><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for your in depth answer.  Please let me know it there's any way that I can contribute (E.g. testing on CentOS 6).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best regards,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">John<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></font></span><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br></font></span><span class=""><div>
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