Accessing Petrel 3D window framebuffer

Question

I'm looking for a way to access the framebuffer of a Window3D other than Window3D.SaveBmp. The preferred solution would be to be able to draw the scene graph to an offscreen buffer, but other ways of accessing the framebuffer could also work.

Answer 1

Currently this is not supported by Ocean for Petrel.

I agree it might seem a bit strange that saving a bitmap is supported but not accessing an in-memory copy. The reason is simply historical as the underlying C++ framework of Petrel encapsulates most of the oiv viewer and scenegraph. This encapsulation did provide a nice way to store the bitmap but not a way to get an in-memory copy, so we simply went for the easy win first. That said, adding this API would not be rocket science, just work.

Ocean dude.