VR Juggler Wiki

This is the start page for the VR Juggler wiki on Google Code. The old Trac-based wiki is still available, but it is no longer updated.

This knowledge base is not meant to serve as a replacement or a copy of the VR Juggler documentation. Instead, it is meant to support it by providing a place for discussion of VR Juggler related topics and to provide up-to-the-minute information about the current status of the project and the software.

VR Juggler User Information

• An interactive FAQ where users can add and answer questions.
• A list of how-to's related to VR Juggler.
• Feature list for VR Juggler 2.0.
• Descriptions of what needs to be available on a freshly installed system.
• Information on how to port VR Juggler 1.0 applications to the 2.x architecture.
• Information on how to port VR Juggler 2.0 applications to VR Juggler 2.2.
• Information on how to port VR Juggler 2.2 applications to VR Juggler 3.0.

VR Juggler Development

This section is current development status of the Juggler Project. Including: Technical discussions, design issues, project timelines, dev tasks, and coding issues.

• Current tasks/projects and long-term goals
• Current status of VR Juggler
• How to build the bleeding-edge code from Subversion (SVN)
• Access to the latest and greatest from the VR Juggler team
• Information about the branches in the VR Juggler Subversion repository
• Information about what compilers can be used to build VR Juggler

VR Juggler Team Information

• Steps for making a release of one of the Juggler Suite modules
• The Juggler Team Guide
• Description of the coding standard used
• Guidelines for when to increment project version numbers

Application Development Discussion

This section is for discussing issues related to writting code using the Juggler suite of tools. This includes topics such as effective coding techniques, and algorithms useful to VR, graphics, sound, user interaction, etc.

• Configuring
• Input (Gadgeteer)
• Positional input units and scaling
• OpenGL Apps
• Performer Apps
• OpenSG Apps
• Open Scene Graph Apps

Deployment Discussion

This section is for discussion of topics related to the deployment of VR Juggler on different operating systems. The idea is to come up with best practices and recommendations for how to install VR Juggler quickly, easily, and uniformly.

• Installers
• Package management
• Configuration file management