Re: [osg-users] Ray Tracing a BRLCAD model in Openscenegraph

Watkins, Steven M CIV NSWCDD, G24 wrote: Hi Robert I am probably much more confused than you are at this point! I am working on a simulation where it was required to incorporate BRLCAD models. BRLCAD are CSG models, though there are some tools to convert these models to polygonized formats

Re: [osg-users] TerraPage tile having own origin

A couple years back I was working with some large-area TerraPage databases and added support in the txp plugin for this 'local origin' mode. It seemed to work pretty well back then, but Terrex (or whatever they're named now) may have changed things and broken it. I just looked at the current OSG

Re: [osg-users] 64-bit OSG

Zach Deedler wrote: This site explains it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit 2^32 = 4GB 2^64 = 17,179,869,184GB or 16 exabytes (I was wrong before). Actually this depends on whether the CPU you're using can really address this much memory - I seem to recall that AMD cpu's are

Re: [osg-users] How do PagedLOD children expire?

Paul Martz wrote: Hi Robert -- My understanding of the DatabasePager is that PagedLOD children that are not visible in the current view volume should eventually expire, which I assume means be unloaded from memory. OSG would then have to reload such children from disk if they ever came

Re: [osg-users] Linux ATI driver improvements!

Indeed, given ATI's past track record on 'supporting' Linux, I'd wait at least three months and see where the dust settles before even contemplating buying an ATI card for my Linux systems. Even then, the ATI card would either have to be much cheaper or have some new whiz-bang