If i want to place QWebKit on top of OpenGL what is the best way to do it ?

zester · wrote on 17 Jun 2011, 07:13

No problem... lol Probably why you don't see alot of 3D Qt Web Browsers out there.

zester · wrote on 17 Jun 2011, 07:28

If your feeling adventures there is also Berkelium it's made to render to an OpenGL or DirectX texture.

Berkelium is a BSD licensed library that provides off-screen browser rendering via Google's open source Chromium web browser.

It takes advantage of Chromium's multiprocess rendering to isolate browsers from each other and can render to any buffer in memory. The user of the library can inject input and javascript code into web pages to control them, as well as listen for events generated by the page such as navigation events, load sequence events and paint events. Berkelium provides a small API for embedding a fully functional browser into any application.

http://berkelium.org/

Source is here.
https://github.com/sirikata/berkelium

Binary is here.
https://github.com/sirikata/berkelium/downloads

umen242 · wrote on 17 Jun 2011, 07:50

wow this is great stuff!

zester · wrote on 17 Jun 2011, 16:18

Being that you posted this in the Game Development forum, might I make a suggestion for a game development framework.

Ogre3D
http://www.ogre3d.org/

Ogre3D/Qt4Widget
http://zester.googlecode.com/files/QtCreatorOgre2.zip
!http://i52.tinypic.com/vxj0qf.png!

Ogre3D Example
http://zester.googlecode.com/files/Ogre3D.zip
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// g++ main.cpp -o main pkg-config --libs --cflags OGRE OIS

#include <Ogre.h>
#include <OgreFrameListener.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace Ogre;

//
class MyFrameListener : public FrameListener {
public:
bool frameStarted (const FrameEvent &evt);
bool frameEnded (const FrameEvent &evt);
bool frameRenderingQueued (const FrameEvent &evt);
};

//
bool MyFrameListener::frameStarted(const FrameEvent &evt) {
std::cout << "Frame Started" << std::endl;
return true;
}

//
bool MyFrameListener::frameEnded(const FrameEvent &evt) {
std::cout << "Frame Ended" << std::endl;
return true;
}

//
bool MyFrameListener::frameRenderingQueued(const FrameEvent &evt) {
std::cout << "Frame Queued" << std::endl;
return true;
}

int main(void)
{
// Create an instance of the OGRE Root Class
Root* root = new Root;

// Configures the application
if (!root->restoreConfig())
root->showConfigDialog();
root->saveConfig();

// Create a render window
RenderWindow* window = root->initialise(true, "Tutorial 1");

// Create a new scene manager.
SceneManager* sceneManager = root->createSceneManager(ST_GENERIC);
sceneManager->setAmbientLight(Ogre::ColourValue(0.0, 0.0, 0.0));

// Create a new camera
Camera* camera = sceneManager->createCamera("Camera");
camera->setPosition(Ogre::Vector3(0,0,15));
camera->lookAt(Ogre::Vector3(0,0,0));
camera->setNearClipDistance(5);

// Add our model to our resources and index it

ResourceGroupManager::getSingleton().addResourceLocation("Media/packs/Sinbad.zip", "Zip");
ResourceGroupManager::getSingleton().addResourceLocation("Media/models/", "FileSystem");
ResourceGroupManager::getSingleton().initialiseAllResourceGroups();

//
Light* light1 = sceneManager->createLight("Light1");
light1->setType(Ogre::Light::LT_POINT);
// Set Light Color
light1->setDiffuseColour(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
// Set Light Reflective Color
light1->setSpecularColour(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
// Set Light (Range, Brightness, Fade Speed, Rapid Fade Speed)
light1->setAttenuation(10, 0.5, 0.045, 0.0);

//
Entity* lightEnt = sceneManager->createEntity("LightEntity", "sphere.mesh");
SceneNode* lightNode = sceneManager->createSceneNode("LightNode");
lightNode->attachObject(lightEnt);
lightNode->attachObject(light1);
lightNode->setScale(0.01f, 0.01f, 0.01f);
lightNode->setPosition(0, 4, 10);

sceneManager->getRootSceneNode()->addChild(lightNode);

// Using the camera create a viewport and set the background color to black
Viewport* viewport = window->addViewport(camera);
viewport->setBackgroundColour(Ogre::ColourValue(0.0,0.0,0.0));

// Use the viewport to set the aspect ratio of the camera
camera->setAspectRatio(Real(viewport->getActualWidth()) /
Real(viewport->getActualHeight()));

// Create an instance of our model and add it to the scene
Entity* ent = sceneManager->createEntity("Sinbad.mesh");
SceneNode* entNode = sceneManager->createSceneNode("Character");
entNode->attachObject(ent);
sceneManager->getRootSceneNode()->addChild(entNode);
entNode->setPosition(0,0,0);

// Create an instance of the MyFrameListener Class and add it to the root object
MyFrameListener* myListener = new MyFrameListener();
root->addFrameListener(myListener);

// Tell root to start rendering
root->startRendering();

// Cleanup
delete myListener;
delete root;

return 0;
}
@

For water there is Hydrax
http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/Hydrax
!http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/img/wiki_up/Hydrax.jpg!

For Sky and Weather Effects there is SkyX
http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/SkyX
Note: It,s used in the Hydrax screenshot above.

There actually really easy to use.

There is also.....

Cutexture: A Framework for Qt User Interfaces in Ogre3D
http://advancingusability.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/cutexture-a-framework-for-qt-user-interfaces-in-ogre3d/
!http://i56.tinypic.com/b6xb83.png!

Note: Berkelium can be used directly with Ogre3D and Qt

zester · wrote on 17 Jun 2011, 16:27

If your interested in doing 3D (Model, Texturing, Animation, Compositing, .....) with Blender http://www.blender.org/ I am a Blender Master http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/6717

Just click on my profile and send me an e-mail I am sure I can get you going in the right direction.

:)

Eddy · wrote on 17 Jun 2011, 16:42

Impressive work zester!

umen242 · wrote on 17 Jun 2011, 17:37

Great stuff , thanks!
Hi
are you doing planing to do the game in Qt3d?

zester · wrote on 27 Jun 2011, 08:01

bq. Hi are you doing planing to do the game in Qt3d?

Qt3d was a consideration. After trying it out for sometime I came to the conclusion that for my
"No Rest For The Wicked" project it wasn't a very good fit. Qt3d AFAIK has issues with lights and doesn't
have bone animation support. Both of those issues are deal breakers.

As of right now for a Highpoly game OGRE3D is the best fit and for a Lowpoly Browser Based
game Three.js is the best fit.

Why? What did you have in mind?

umen242 · wrote on 27 Jun 2011, 12:54

I have in my mind to make interactive applications for kids , not 3d games in my opinion its very full market of indie game makers and wannabe game makers very hard to put something good .
its fun its great programming challenge but with no ROI for your work.
now im looking for platform , Qt is winner for me.

zester · wrote on 28 Jun 2011, 00:15

Qt3d would be a good fit for interactive applications for kids.