Re: [opendx-users] Windows version of OpenDX

[Chris Pelkie]

There is no connection to Linux when using the Windows DX. However, you need an X-windows (server) to display all the DX windows. VIS Inc offers a discount on Hummingbird Exceed (last I checked: not sure if this deal is exportable to France or not...). This is what I use with great success. I also use OpenDX on Mac OS X with great success, but there, Apple provides a free X-windows environment.

The very great advantage of the VIS Inc Windows DX is the one-click Wizard to install: no messy Cygwin! Besides, you get the Mac and Linux pre-built executables (and Mac installer) on the same CD, so you can't go wrong.

More importantly, if you want hardware rendering, and presumably have a graphics card that does OpenGL, get the Exceed 3D version (which sits on top of the required base Exceed). Without this, you can run DX, but only in software rendering, which is fine for all purposes except rapidly moving a 3D object around ('waggling'- vous comprenez?). Note that the full version of Exceed is NOT on the VIS Inc CD: you have to buy it separately.

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On Nov 26, 2004, at 3:58, Emmanuelle Lafont wrote:

Hi,

I'm thinking about buying the Windows version of OpenDX, but I'd like to
know how it works, and in particular the principles of the X server.I don't know anything about it. I've read the documentation on Vis' site,
but there isn't much explainations.
Does it works as with Linux?
Someone told me I had to have my PC linked with a Linux station, is it right?
What does the X server do?

Any help would be welcome!