gdml2G4viz.mac

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# Copyright: Mathieu Trocme, mathieu.trocme@gmail.com (01 october 2009)
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# This software is a computer program whose purpose is to: convert any GDML file to any G4 visualization driver file. 
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# Program       : gdml2G4viz.cc
# Task          : convert any GDML file to any G4 visualization driver file
# Compilation   : 'make' ou 'make -j $NPROC'  # export NPROC=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "processor.*:" | wc -l)
# Execution     : 'cd $G4BINDIR ; [ ! -a gdml2G4viz.mac ] && ln -s $G4MYSIMU/gdml2G4viz.mac ; ./gdml2G4viz myGDMLfile.gdml myMacroFile.mac'
# Output        : It's up to you. Default will be: $G4BINDIR/myGDMLfile.wrl
# Documentation : none
# Convention    : Root coding convention: kMyVariable for constants, gMyVariable for global variable, fMyVariable for class data member
# Help          : http://www.lcsim.org/software/geant4/doxygen/html/classes.html
# Author        : Mathieu Trocme (mathieu.trocme@ires.in2p3.fr)
# Date          : 29 September 2009
# Framework     : PhD thesis, CNRS/IPHC/DRS/RAMSES, Strasbourg, France
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# VISUALIZATION
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## Wired3 & Wired4 can only display wireframes!!!
## Differences between Wired3 and Wired4: http://wired.freehep.org/manual/Comparison.html
## /vis/geometry/set/ commands: http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/UsersGuides/ForApplicationDeveloper/fo/AllResources/Control/UIcommands/_vis_geometry_set_.html
## /vis/viewer/set/   commands: http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/UsersGuides/ForApplicationDeveloper/fo/AllResources/Control/UIcommands/_vis_viewer_set_.html
## All the visualization forum posts: http://hypernews.slac.stanford.edu/HyperNews/geant4/get/visualization.html?embed=-1


### Choose one or several drivers  (Wired4 files won't open automatically. Maybe some day... http://forum.freehep.org/index.php?t=msg&th=936&start=0&rid=0&S=7a7fcf2ac3b842d246213ec1f395643b)

## DRIVER: Any VRML player, http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/vbdetect.html (Cosmoplayer's nice)
/vis/open VRML2FILE  # or VRML1FILE
/vis/scene/create
#/vis/viewer/set/style wireframe 
/vis/drawVolume 
/vis/viewer/flush

## DRIVER: Wired3, http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~perl/HepRApp/
#/vis/open HepRepFile
#/vis/scene/create
#/vis/scene/add/volume
#/vis/geometry/set/forceSolid
#/vis/sceneHandler/attach
#/vis/viewer/flush

## DRIVER: Wired4, http://jas.freehep.org/jas3/
#/vis/open HepRepXML
#/vis/scene/create gdml2G4viz.heprep.zip  # default name, will be changed accordingly to the input file name if you don't change anything
#/vis/scene/add/volume
#/vis/sceneHandler/attach
#/vis/viewer/flush

## DRIVER: OGL[IS]Xm?
#/vis/open OGLSXm  # the best
#/vis/drawVolume
#/vis/geometry/set/forceSolid all -1 true
#/vis/viewer/flush

## DRIVER: DAWN
#/vis/open DAWNFILE
#/vis/drawVolume
#/vis/viewer/reset 
#/vis/viewer/zoom  1.5
#/vis/viewer/set/viewpointThetaPhi  45 45 
##/vis/viewer/set/style wireframe
#/vis/viewer/set/style surface
#/vis/viewer/flush


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Copyright: Mathieu Trocmé, Sun 4 Oct 2009 (CeCILL license)