Hey all, Thanks for the feedback. Yup, I can get it to error out just as you said! :)
I guess I'd seen something about this on the list regarding VTKEdge, but hadn't remembered. Please let us all know, though, if a solution pops up. Talk to you later, -Eric On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Francois Bertel wrote: > Hello, > > The GPU Rast Mapper does not work on Mac so it is skipped to avoid bad > behavior. > > It is skipped because: > > 1. on Snow Leopard with an nVidia card, the GPU Ray Cast mapper > triggers a bug in the OpenGL driver (that we cannot locate precisely > enough) and the driver will exit the application with: > > (0) : fatal error C9999: Nested functions, aborting! > > or: > > (0) : fatal error C9999: *** exception during compilation *** > Cg compiler terminated due to fatal error > > > 2. On Leopard, a user reported a corrupted image. > > If you are adventurous, and see what happen for your specific > configuration, you can comment out the lines in > VTK/VolumeRendering/vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper.cxx that skip the > Macs: > > // It does not work on Apple OS X Snow Leopard with nVidia. > // There is a bug in the OpenGL driver with an error in the > // Cg compiler about an infinite loop. > #ifdef __APPLE__ > this->LoadExtensionsSucceeded=0; > return; > #endif > > Regards > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Aashish Chaudhary > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Eric, >> >> Yes you do need to have certain extensions. Now the mapper I have not >> written myself and hence I am forwarding this email to vtk users list. I >> hope that the original author would respond to it. >> >> I will see if we can produce a better message which could list the missing >> extensions. >> >> Thanks for testing it out. >> >> ~Regards, >> Aashish >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Eric E. Monson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Aashish, >>> I've been having trouble with it, too, on my Mac (OS X 10.6.2, PV compiled >>> serial x86_64 arch updated from CVS and rebuilt today, CMake 2.9.20100113). >>> Are there any special hardware requirements, then? I can see the GPU Volume >>> Mapper option, but when I switch over to that from the "Fixed point" mapper >>> I get this error: >>> ERROR: >>> In >>> /Users/emonson/Programming/ParaView_cvs/ParaView3/VTK/VolumeRendering/vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper.cxx, >>> line 4110 >>> vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper (0x12082cc00): Rendering failed because >>> the following OpenGL extensions are required but not supported: >>> >>> (Just as this shows, the list of OpenGL extensions it says are required >>> but not supported is empty...) My graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT. >>> Thanks, >>> -Eric >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> Eric E Monson >>> Duke Visualization Technology Group >>> >>> On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Aashish Chaudhary wrote: >>> >>> No there is no special option required but you would have to update your >>> paraview cvs copy as the code got into cvs last thursday. >>> >>> Can you update and compile again? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Do we need to enable a special option in the CMakeCache.txt file in >>>> order to get this feature ? >>>> I compiled the CVS version on Mac and cannot access the GPU option for >>>> volume rendering. >>>> Regards, >>>> PO >>>> On 2010-02-26, at 10:58 AM, Aashish Chaudhary wrote: >>>> >>>> All, >>>> >>>> I am pleased to announce that ParaView3 now has GPU based volume >>>> rendering from VTKEdge. Its currently in CVS and should be able to make >>>> into 3.8 release. >>>> Currently it does not work in tile display mode but we are hoping to fix >>>> it in near future. Any bug reports are welcome. >>>> >>>> Attached is the screen shot. >>>> >>>> ~Regards, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> | Aashish Chaudhary >>>> | R&D Engineer >>>> | Kitware Inc. >>>> | www.kitware.com >>>> <Screenshot.jpg>_______________________________________________ >>>> Powered by www.kitware.com >>>> >>>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >>>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >>>> >>>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >>>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >>>> >>>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> | Aashish Chaudhary >>> | R&D Engineer >>> | Kitware Inc. >>> | www.kitware.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Powered by www.kitware.com >>> >>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >>> >>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >>> >>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> | Aashish Chaudhary >> | R&D Engineer >> | Kitware Inc. >> | www.kitware.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at: >> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers >> >> > > > > -- > François Bertel, PhD | Kitware Inc. 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