ok, thanks, i'll leave it there then (next week or so - right ;)
On 4/3/08, Robert Osfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mattias, > > This looks like a bug I've introduced with the nesting of task directories. > Tasks directories are related the the distributed build support that > vpbmaster provides, as it splits the build into a series of tasks, each > tasks writes to its own directory. osgdem also has this support as it's the > tool that is invoked by vpbmaster to run each task. > > For the distributed build support I haven't yet done any work on > compatibility with using archives. It should be possible at the task level, > but not for the whole build. With big vpbmaster builds you might be > outputting several terrabytes of data so it doesn't make it a good candidate > for placing in an archive. The threading issues with writing to a shared > archive file mean that generating a single archive is impractical. > > For much of the past year I've been working on this distributed build/large > scale database build support, some old features haven't been tested in this > new work, archive support being one of them. This is one area I need to do > futher work on. > > For the time being I'd recommend not using archive support in osgdem and > instead place databases in their own directory to make it easier to manage, > i.e. > > osgdem ..... -o earth/earth.ive > > When it builds all the extra directories will be safely nested away in the > earth directory and you can just treat the whole data as a single entity. > > Robert. > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Mattias Helsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have some problems loading archives that may have to do with osgdem > > or osg archive handling. Anyone who builds a db with osgdem using -a > > <myterrain>.osga should be able to reproduce. > > Basically the tile files gets put in a directory inside the archive > > and the master file is able to point out the level0 file as > > <arch>/<directory>/level0.[osg|ive] but it in turn request loading of > > <archive>/levelx.[ive|osg] without the directory name. > > Just wanted to report before doing anything. If reply-less I'll try > > adn post a fix in the next week or so. > > > > I'm on Windows and is using head of osg and vpb > > > > Mattias > > _______________________________________________ > > osg-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
