Re: [opendx-users] Making Hardware Rendering Look Good--Do I need a new video card?

2004-10-26 Thread Chris Pelkie
I have a Wildcat 6110 on a Dell Xeon 2.2 box. Works well for OpenDX 4.3.2 (Vis Inc) though both box and card are about 3 yrs old at this point. I presume you are using Bruce's QuadricSurface macro. From personal experience (Bruce and I worked together here for years), I know that this macro was

[opendx-users] Making Hardware Rendering Look Good--Do I need a new video card?

2004-10-25 Thread Abbye McEwen
I'm having trouble using hardware rendering of a parametric surface (an adaptation of Bruce Land's net) in openDX--for lack of better words, it just looks plain ugly. See the attachments for the piece of the net that's giving us trouble and a comparison of how software and hardware rendering

Re: [opendx-users] Making Hardware Rendering Look Good--Do I need a new video card?

2004-10-25 Thread David Thompson
Are there two different coincident surfaces there? If not--you guarantee that there isn't, then my suggestion is to look at some of the hardware rendering options that can be added such as two-sided lights, etc. Look in the html documentation. David I'm having trouble using hardware