No lighting in VTK

Question

I'd like to just display the polygons in their specified colour with no shading, is this possible? I've tried setting each of ambient, specular, diffuse etc. to 1 and the others to 0 with no luck.

Answer 1

To disable shading you really have to set lightning off.

To do so specify actor.GetProperty().LightingOff() on the respective vtkActor. See e.g. http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkProperty.html

Based on the vtk Pyramid the effect can be seen in the following example