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!! Introduction

After some digging around about grid systems and trying ((EditorGridSystem|Jeroen Dierckx's EditorGridSystem)), We decided to write our own grid system with different feature set and release it to the community, because Ogre is si cool.

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!! Screenshots
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!! Features

Following features are supported by Peter's Grid System:

* This grid have three planes support - XY, XZ, YZ that can be visible/hidden
* Grid is generated/updated by request, uses ManualObject
* Limitations in each dimension
* Cell size per dimension
* Grid Offset
* Colors for offset, master and division axis,
* Does NOT depend from the camera type used,
* Not limited to one instance (no named items used!)

!! Usage

To create a grid, just create an instance of the class and set the properties you want to, then call {MONO()}update(){MONO}

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    /*OgreGrid*/ grid = new OgreGrid(/*Ogre::SceneManager*/ui->TheScene->scene, /*Material name*/"BaseWhiteAlphaBlended");

    //Where to draw the grid?
    grid->drawQueue = Ogre::RENDER_QUEUE_OVERLAY;

    //Attach it to some SceneNode
    grid->attachToNode(scene->getRootSceneNode());

    //Some grid settings
    grid->setCellSize(0.5);
    grid->ymin = -9;
    grid->ymax = 2;
    grid->ofY = 2;
    grid->zmin = -2;
    grid->zmax = 1;
    grid->showXZ = true;
    grid->showXY = true;
    grid->showYZ = true;
    grid->setDivisions(10);
    grid->colorDivision = Ogre::ColourValue(0,1,0,0.3);
    grid->colorOffset = Ogre::ColourValue(0,0,1,1);
    grid->colorMaster = Ogre::ColourValue(1,0,0,0.7);

    //Regenerate the grid
    grid->update();
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