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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 13:53:56 CDT

Hi Phil,
  In order to enable the CAVE wands/trackers in VMD, you'll need to
use the Graphics->Tools menu to add the CAVE wand as a "grab" tool.
That's usually the best way of manipulating the structure in the CAVE.
If you have a CAVE with several wands, you can add extra entries to your
.vmdsensors file beyond the ones it comes with by default.
The basics of all of that are discussed here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node45.html

Here's a simple startup script I use when testing VMD in the NCSA CAVE,
which adds the appropriate tools etc (2nd one has no button, its just
a tracker we sometimes use for pointing, yours may be different...):

# add tools for first CAVE wand
tool create grab
tool adddevice cavetracker 0
tool adddevice cavebuttons 0

# add tools for second CAVE wand
tool create grab
tool adddevice cavetracker2 1

Let us know if you need more help with this.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:05:07PM +0100, Philip Fowler wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to get VMD to work in the CAVE we have here at UCL in the UK and
> it was surprisingly easy. We were projecting images of various proteins in no
> time at all.
>
> Only problem is......we cannot control them with our devices which makes
> visualising a bit difficult to say the least.
>
> I take it on good authority that we were trying to use an Intersense IS900
> tracking system with 2 devices: head-tracker and wand-tracker with 5 buttons
> and joystick. On web at www.isense.com.
>
> Does anyone (a) use these devices and (b) if you do, could you let us have the
> drivers? (or (c) "something else")
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---Phil
>
>
>
> --
> Philip Fowler,
> PhD Student
> Centre for Computational Science,
> UCL Chemistry 

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