Hi Carlos, * CMake is used for installing OSG from source. Is CMake exclusively used > to compile OSG programs (.cpp source files)? According to the > QuickStartGuide, I succesfully used g++ to compile a .cpp file into binary > code and ran it fine there. My question: do we use CMake other than > compiling OSG source? > > Cmake is a great and powerful tool, that lets you to compile cross-platform. In other words, cmake builds for you the makefiles depending the platform you are working on. And of course is not OSG exclusive. You can take a look at [1].
> * I moved from a Windows VC++ 2008 environment to a linux environment. > What is the preferred IDE/Software used to create OSG programs? I can't > imagine anyone writing code using terminal exclusively. > > You can use QtCreator or eclipse for C++ for example. Both are good. * Out of curiousity, I ran the examples on a Intel Core Duo laptop. It > lagged. Motion wasn't fluid. Is video rendering CPU intensive or video > card intensive? > > If you are running linux take care about your graphic drivers, and be sure that you have activated direct rendering. Hope this helps. Cheers. [1]http://cmake.org -- Jordi Torres Fabra gvSIG 3D blog http://gvsig3d.blogspot.com Instituto de Automática e Informática Industrial http://www.ai2.upv.es
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