Implement a way to decouple actors from being rendered to the main screen by being able to create SubViewport instances at arbitrary, move actors from/to these instances and set viewports as texture for actors to move them around/place them.
Some functionality that would be needed (please find better names for things)
// creates the viewport at set resolution
/create/viewport $viewport_name:s $width:i $height:i
// moves an already existing actor the the viewport
/set/viewport $actor_name:s $viewport_name:s
// create an actor (on the main viewport) that displays a sub viewport
/create $actor_name:s $viewport_name:s
(imagine drawing some pattern into a 100x100 px viewport with some images cropped on the edges and then again drawing a pattern of this viewport)
Use Animatron for Print Graphics
Create a viewport of 16000x8000px and display it as a smaller preview in a window. Implement a command to save the content of the viewport as image (if not already implemented)
/saveFrame $viewport_name:s $path
Post-Processing Effects
In case that at a later point materials/shaders are implemented a post-processing effect can be implemented:
Draw everything into some viewport A
Draw the content of A (using some material/shader) onto the screen
Video-Feedback
Setup 2 viewports (A, B)
In A: Draw B
In B: Draw A (rotated/scaled) and something new
(I am not sure if this would work; potentially some ping-pong buffer would make more sense)
Implement a way to decouple actors from being rendered to the main screen by being able to create SubViewport instances at arbitrary, move actors from/to these instances and set viewports as texture for actors to move them around/place them.
Some functionality that would be needed (please find better names for things)
Use Cases
Sharing Content of a Viewport via Spout/Syphon/NDI
/spout/send $viewport_name $spout_nameCreating Cool Mosaic Effects
(imagine drawing some pattern into a 100x100 px viewport with some images cropped on the edges and then again drawing a pattern of this viewport)
Use Animatron for Print Graphics
Create a viewport of 16000x8000px and display it as a smaller preview in a window. Implement a command to save the content of the viewport as image (if not already implemented)
/saveFrame $viewport_name:s $pathPost-Processing Effects
In case that at a later point materials/shaders are implemented a post-processing effect can be implemented:
Video-Feedback
(I am not sure if this would work; potentially some ping-pong buffer would make more sense)
... many other cool things!