[Interest] Qt3D Rendering offscreen

[Andy]

Based on your outline, here is the hierarchy I have set up (but I still get
images of size (1,1)):

Qt3DRender::QRenderCapture::
    Qt3DExtras::QForwardRenderer::
        Qt3DRender::QRenderSurfaceSelector::
            Qt3DRender::QViewport::
                Qt3DRender::QCameraSelector::
                    Qt3DRender::QClearBuffers::
                        Qt3DRender::QFrustumCulling::
        Qt3DRender::QFilterKey::
        Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetSelector::
            Qt3DRender::QRenderTarget::
                Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput::
                    Qt3DRender::QTexture2D::
                Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput::
                    Qt3DRender::QTexture2D::

Am I attaching things in the right place?

This is how I'm creating it:

   const QSize cTargetSize( 1024, 768 );

   m_forwardRenderer->setExternalRenderTargetSize( cTargetSize );

   Qt3DRender::QTexture2D  *color0Texture = new Qt3DRender::QTexture2D;
   color0Texture->setSize( cTargetSize.width(), cTargetSize.height() );
   color0Texture->setFormat( Qt3DRender::QAbstractTexture::RGBA32F );
   color0Texture->setGenerateMipMaps( false) ;

   Qt3DRender::QTexture2D  *depthTexture = new Qt3DRender::QTexture2D;
   depthTexture->setSize( cTargetSize.width(), cTargetSize.height() );
   depthTexture->setFormat( Qt3DRender::QAbstractTexture::D32F );
   depthTexture->setGenerateMipMaps( false );

   Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput  *colorOutput = new
Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput;
   colorOutput->setTexture( color0Texture );
   colorOutput->setAttachmentPoint( Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput::Color0
);

   Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput  *depthOutput = new
Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput;
   depthOutput->setTexture( depthTexture );
   depthOutput->setAttachmentPoint( Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetOutput::Depth
);

   Qt3DRender::QRenderTarget  *renderTarget = new Qt3DRender::QRenderTarget;
   renderTarget->addOutput( colorOutput );
   renderTarget->addOutput( depthOutput );

   Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetSelector   *renderTargetSelector = new
Qt3DRender::QRenderTargetSelector( m_forwardRenderer );

   renderTargetSelector->setTarget( renderTarget );

   m_forwardRenderer->setParent( mRenderCapturer );
   m_renderSettings->setActiveFrameGraph( mRenderCapturer );


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Andy Maloney  //  https://asmaloney.com
twitter ~ @asmaloney <https://twitter.com/asmaloney>


On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Andy <asmaloney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Sean Harmer <sean.harmer at kdab.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Friday 11 August 2017 14:34:34 Andy wrote:
>> > Goal: With Qt3D (C++), render my scene offscreen, use render capture on
>> it,
>> > and save image to disk.
>> >
>> > With my Qt3DWindow-based solution the scene looks fine and I can do the
>> > render capture part (on macOS anyways - Windows doesn't work for me -
>> > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-61223 ).
>> >
>> > Now I need to be able to do it offscreen (without the window open).
>> >
>> > I thought this was going to be as simple as setting a QOffscreenSurface
>> as
>> > my forward renderer surface - something like:
>> >
>> >    QOffscreenSurface *surface = new QOffscreenSurface;
>> >
>> >    surface->create();
>> >
>> >    Qt3DExtras::QForwardRenderer  *forwardRenderer = new
>> > Qt3DExtras::QForwardRenderer;
>> >
>> >    forwardRenderer->setSurface( surface );
>> >    forwardRenderer->setExternalRenderTargetSize( QSize( 800, 600 ) );
>> >
>> >    qDebug() << surface->format() << surface->size() <<
>> surface->isValid();
>> >
>> > While this gives me a valid surface and the format is correct, its size
>> is
>> > always (1,1) and the render capture gives me images of that size.
>> >
>> > How do I set the size of the QOffscreenSurface?
>>
>> You don't :) An offscreen surface is only good for making a GL context
>> current. It is not suitable as a render target. If you want to do
>> offscreen
>>
>
> I guess I find that class name confusing then... One draws on a surface,
> right? :-)
>
> rendering with QOffscreenSurface, you will need to provide your own render
>> target in the form of a framebuffer object.
>>
>> You will need to create an FBO by way of a QRenderTarget with a 2D
>> texture of
>> the desired size attached to the color0 attachment point, and a depth
>> format
>> texture of the same size attached to the depth attachment point.
>>
>
> So that's a QTexture2D for colo0 and... what for the "depth format
> texture"? Another QTexture2D?
>
>
>>
>> Select this with a QRenderTargetSelector in a custom framegraph to direct
>> rendering into the attached textures. You can then do a pixel read back
>> operation with the QRenderCapure and save the resulting image.
>>
>
> You make it sound so easy!
>
>
>> I suppose this could be wrapped in a convenience that allows the rest of
>> the
>> framegraph beyond the render target selector and render capture to be set.
>>
>
> +1. If I ever get anything working, I'd be happy to work with someone to
> get it into shape for Qt3DExtras.
>
> Thanks Sean!
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> >
>> > Or am I going about this the wrong way?
>> >
>> > (It would be nice to have a class like the Qt3DWindow one specifically
>> for
>> > offscreen rendering.)
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Andy Maloney  //  https://asmaloney.com
>> > twitter ~ @asmaloney <https://twitter.com/asmaloney>
>>
>> --
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>
> ---
> Andy Maloney  //  https://asmaloney.com
> twitter ~ @asmaloney <https://twitter.com/asmaloney>
>
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