Btukfyl

I have a question regarding the "Qt 3D: Multi Viewport QML Example" Link

Is there a possibility to add a single view (one of the four in the example) into a separate widget. I tried to change the example but I only could add all four views to one widget.

The following code creates a camera which should be displayed in a separate Widget. see Picture

I am not sure if it is possible and how i can solve it.

SimpleCamera {

    id: camera4

    lens: cameraLens3

    position: Qt.vector3d(100.0, 0.0, -6.0)

    viewCenter: Qt.vector3d(0.0, 0.0, -6.0)

}

In the example, the four views are created using the classes Viewport and CameraSelector.

The Viewport class

The class Viewport defines the portion of the screen that the branch of the framegraph (that the Viewport node is part of) is rendered to. The portion is defined as (x, y, width, height). The coordinates of the whole screen are (0, 0, 1, 1).

If you have a look at the QuadViewportFrameGraph class that is part of the example, you'll see four viewports defined - one for each camera. The top left camera renders to the rectangle (0, 0, 0.5, 0.5) of the screen. The top right camera on the other hand renders to (0.5, 0, 0.5, 0.5), i.e. it uses half of the screen size as its x offset.

The CameraSelector class

This class defines which camera the branch of the framegraph uses to render content. If you look into the example you'll see a CameraSelector { id: someCamera } within each Viewport instance. This way, each Viewport gets its own camera.

Conclusion

If you only want one view, remove the four Viewports within the main Viewport and add one camera selector as the child of it. So your QuadViewportFrameGraph should look like this (without import statements):

RenderSettings {

    id: quadViewportFrameGraph



    property alias camera: cameraSelector.camera;

    property alias window: surfaceSelector.surface



    activeFrameGraph: RenderSurfaceSelector {

        id: surfaceSelector



        Viewport {

            id: mainViewport

            normalizedRect: Qt.rect(0, 0, 1, 1)



            ClearBuffers {

                buffers: ClearBuffers.ColorDepthBuffer

                clearColor: Qt.rgba(0.6, 0.6, 0.6, 1.0)



                CameraSelector { id: cameraSelector }

            }

        }

    }

}

Of course you also have to adjust the code where you instantiate the QuadViewportFrameGraph and only set the one camera. If you now want all four views displayed in separate widgets you need to create four 3D windows and window containers and such a framegraph for each (with different cameras of course).

But be warned that the performance might be crappy if you create for distinct 3D windows. As far as I know, there are no other solutions to obtain 3D widgets.