manips(3)

💖 manips — Manipulator Classes 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this page is literally the whole manipulator squad and they're all kinda iconic 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Classes

• class SoCenterballManip — this one wraps an SoCenterballDragger for you, purely for convenience 💅
• class SoClipPlaneManip — the class you reach for when you gotta manipulate clip planes ✂️
• class SoDirectionalLightManip — used to manipulate SoDirectionalLight nodes 💡
• class SoHandleBoxManip — wraps an SoHandleBoxDragger so you can manipulate a transformation 🎀
• class SoJackManip — wraps an SoJackDragger, again, for convenience ✨
• class SoPointLightManip — used to manipulate point light nodes 🌟
• class SoSpotLightManip — used to manipulate spot light nodes 🔦
• class SoTabBoxManip — this one wraps an SoTabBoxDragger 📦
• class SoTrackballManip — wraps an SoTrackballDragger, you guessed it, for convenience 🌀
• class SoTransformBoxManip — wraps an SoTransformBoxDragger for convenience 💜
• class SoTransformManip — used to manipulate transformations 🔥
• class SoTransformerManip — wraps an SoTransformerDragger for convenience 👑

Detailed Description

so like. manipulators are objects you can swap back and forth into a scene graph, at any location where you'd normally have an SoTransform node. they step into the SoTransform's spot, they keep acting like the SoTransform, but on top of that they hand the user a whole 3D user interface — using draggers — for controlling the transform. main character energy fr fr 👑

and when the user is done manipulating? the manipulator can swap itself right back out, replacing itself with an SoTransform that represents the new transform value. the way that it just... leaves. periodt. 💅

manipulators is one of the concepts that really made Open Inventor stand out against the alternatives when it came out. no cap. 🌈

See also

• Dragger Classes

👑 Author

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this was the manips(3) page from Coin, Version 3.1.3 🌸 mwah, go manipulate something cute 🦋