EDGE User's Guide

Table of Contents

• Title Page
• Disclaimer
• EDGE Usage Agreement
• Getting Help and Support
• Release Notes
• Hardware and Software requirements
• Features
• Installation
• Notes about included models
• Notes about the userdata directory
• Running standalone
• Running with multiple clients and a manager
• Running with a Simple Scene
• Running the benchmarks
• Basic EDGE navigation
• Flying the Camera
• Using Speedfly to Navigate large distances
• Using the Tree Editor Tool
• Adding a node
• Adding a model
• Adding a camera
• Adding a Vehicle Camera
• Adding a Tcl Script
• Adding reconfigs and toggles
• Advanced Lighting Effects
• Customizing the view layout
• Using the simdata plugin for data playback
• Simdata API File Reference page
• CSV Formatted Data With the Simdata Plugin
• Using Custom Data Formats With the Simdata Plugin
• Recording a Movie From the Simdata Plugin
• Ignoring Nodes on DOV Movie Playback
• Using the Trackcam plugin
• Using the Command Console
• Adding a simple overlay
• Adding a simple 3D overlay
• EDGE Canvas Plugin Reference
• EDGE Info Plugin Reference
• EDGE Coneatron Plugin Reference
• Using Trails
• Adding overlays (more advanced)
• Orbital sim integration
• DCOMM Notes
• Connecting Clients To Manager Without Multicast
• DCOMM Settings
• A Simple DCOMM Light Client
• Driving Flags Over DCOMM
• Visualizing a real-time simulation
• Timeouts On DCOMM Initialization Of Connection
• Adding menu items
• Using the FOV overlay
• Using the doug node tcl command
• Using the doug callback command
• Using the doug camera tcl command
• Using the doug plugin command
• Using the doug display command
• Using the doug scene command
• Using the doug view command
• Using the doug dynamic plugin loading commands
• Using the doug cmd tcl command
• Limit Parameters Of A Node
• Adding a camera with a fixed field of view
• Adding Reflection
• Configure Stars
• Change The Background Color
• Mirror Node Position And Attitude Into Another
• Render A Poster From EDGE
• EDGE 3D TV Tutorial
• Example Driving of Planets with Recorded Data
• Setting up a Control Node
• Defining Camera Lenses
• Defining Materials In EDGE
• Making a Model Reflect the Environment
• Exclude A Model From A View
• Exclude A Model From Casting Shadows
• Running Fullscreen
• Running without a border and blipper menu
• Disabling Right Click Menu
• Removing Viewport Borders
• Modeling Guidelines
• Import Blender models into EDGE
• Import Lightwave models into EDGE
• Using DNS Service Discovery
• Remote Commanding Capability
• Web Commanding Capability
• Detecting When An EDGE Instance Is Finished Loading
• Changing Anti-Aliasing Levels
• MJPEG Video Streaming
• Pixelstream Plugin
• Writing a Custom Pick Functionality
• Creating multi-headed displays
• Using Frame Locking across multiple displays
• Allowing For Offscreen Light Flares And Blooms
• Perform Image Distortion
• Print Out Any Node Changes In The Scene
• Improving Framerates
• Generic Troubleshooting Guide
• Understanding config files
• Understanding package files
• Building A Mapplugin
• Using IDF Handcontroller camera
• DOUG Plugin Function Reference
• DOUG Plugin API Reference