[osg-users] a bug or feature in the osgb writer?

2012-08-10 Thread John Kelso
Hi all, I am noticing some odd behavior in the osgb file writer. I will try to describe it as succinctly as possible. Maybe it's a bug, maybe it's my code. We are using osg 3.1 0 on a CentOS 6 Linux system. A fairly large program create a "points" file that includes some shaders and textures wh

Re: [osg-users] framerate drops drastically when turning child nodes on and off

2012-05-09 Thread John Kelso
Many thanks. This problem sure is beginning to smell like "driver and/or card" to me. I'd love to hear from other Linux users too. John On Wed, 9 May 2012, Stephan Maximilian Huber wrote: Am 09.05.12 15:26, schrieb John Kelso: Do you see the original problem as well? Does it

Re: [osg-users] framerate drops drastically when turning child nodes on and off

2012-05-09 Thread John Kelso
Do you see the original problem as well? Does it act the same at .5 FPS and no switching, and degrade at 1 FPS? Thanks, John On Wed, 9 May 2012, Ulrich Hertlein wrote: When running this on OS X I'm seeing some odd behaviour as well: - roughly every 7s there is a jump in the draw time (see att

[osg-users] framerate drops drastically when turning child nodes on and off

2012-05-07 Thread John Kelso
Hi all, We are creating a simple flipbook animation. There's a node at the top, and after a certain delta time the child node that's on is turned off, and the next child is turned on. If all the child nodes are turned on we get a nice solid 60 FPS. Spin it around, move it here and there, no chan

Re: [osg-users] Frame syncing over multiple contexts

2012-01-19 Thread John Kelso
OK then! This is getting good! I tried setting setEndBarrierPosition(BeforeSwapBuffers), setting setThreadingModel(CullDrawThreadPerContext), and running with four windows, each with a single camera, on a desktop system with a single graphics card, and the problem didn't go away. But should the

Re: [osg-users] Frame syncing over multiple contexts

2012-01-19 Thread John Kelso
Hi all, We have seen the same behavior as Anna in our immersive system. It has four screens; each screen has a single graphics context and either one or two cameras (depends on if running in mono or stereo). The system is driven by an Nvidia quadroplex containing four FX5800 cards, one card per s

Re: [osg-users] problems building osg-2.9.14, dicom plugin won't compile

2011-05-12 Thread John Kelso
rsion 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)) #1 SMP Tue Apr 12 18:10:13 EDT 2011 2011/5/12 John Kelso : When trying to build osg-2.9.14 using the same cmake command (and after adding a trailing space to include/osg/GraphicsCostEstimator to get rid of a lot of annoying compiler warnings) I get: Coul

[osg-users] problems building osg-2.9.14, dicom plugin won't compile

2011-05-12 Thread John Kelso
Hi all, In our CentOS environment I can build osg-2.9.10 just fine with the command: cmake \ -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DIR/osg-$v/installed \ -D INVENTOR_INCLUDE_DIR=`coin-config --prefix`/include \ -D INVENTOR_LIBRARY=`coin-config --prefix`/lib/libCoin.so \ -D OSG_USE_AGGRE

[osg-users] ArgumentParser::isString bug?

2010-12-27 Thread John Kelso
Hi, I've decided to give the osg ArgumentParser class a try. Is the method: bool ArgumentParser::isString(const char* str) { if (!str) return false; return true; //return !isOption(str); } doing as advertised? The comment says: /** Return true if string is non-NULL and not an

Re: [osg-users] OSG problem with multiple cards

2010-12-17 Thread John Kelso
Oops!!! In the below, "It simply uses Performer." should have read "It simply uses Producer." Performer is not involved with this problem in any way. 8^) John On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, John Kelso wrote: Hi Robert, Based on your question I went back and did some grep

Re: [osg-users] OSG problem with multiple cards

2010-12-17 Thread John Kelso
correctly), slowdown observed I apologize that my original posting was incorrect, and I hope it didn't cause anyone to go down the wrong rabbit hole. Thanks, John On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Robert Osfield wrote: Hi John, Steve, et. al, On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:32 PM, John Kelso wrote: DGL ha

Re: [osg-users] OSG problem with multiple cards

2010-12-14 Thread John Kelso
very much up to date. Could you share the source of this program? Yes, we can post the source code. John Kelso did the actual work and he will follow up with the code and details in a separate message. There are actually two test programs. The first test is a straight OSG only test. It i

Re: [osg-users] non-virtual thunk errors with 2.9.9, 2.9.10

2010-12-13 Thread John Kelso
ding from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14, which uses a different version of gcc. In my case the solution was to remove the contents of my .ccache directory. More generally, I think this problem comes from mixing object files produced by different g++ versions. Tim On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:36 PM,

[osg-users] non-virtual thunk errors with 2.9.9, 2.9.10

2010-12-13 Thread John Kelso
Hi, When I try to link my executables using osg-2.9.9 or osg-2.9.10 I get messages like: libiris.so: undefined reference to `non-virtual thunk to osgViewer::Viewer::setSceneData(osg::Node*)' I'm using CentOS and gcc 4.1.2. I googled a bit and found this problem mentioned when using one optimi

Re: [osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows on multiple graphics cards

2010-10-21 Thread John Kelso
10, Robert Osfield wrote: Hi John, On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, John Kelso wrote: At this point I've run out of OSG things to try, but am open to suggestions. At this point I'm assuming it's either an Nvidia driver bug or an OSG bug. (Latest Nvidia driver, OSG 2.8.3) From

Re: [osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows on multiple graphics cards

2010-10-21 Thread John Kelso
Hi, Just a recap: We aren't using CompositeViewer- just a Viewer with 4 slave cameras each in its own window. Each window is opened on a separate graphics card. We're running X11 which has no issues with graphics card affinity. We aren't using mosaic mode, twinview, xinerama or anything else

Re: [osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows on multiple graphics cards

2010-10-19 Thread John Kelso
. Martins On 10/19/10 3:11 PM, John Kelso wrote: Hi, We have a pretty simple setup. 4 graphics cards, each is its own X11 display, as in :0.0, :0.1, :0.2, :0.3. No Twinview or Xinerama. We've found out that our hardware doesn't support mosaic mode. We installed the latest Nvid

Re: [osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows on multiple graphics cards

2010-10-19 Thread John Kelso
really sort of completely stumped at this point. Can anyone think of any test we can try to determine the cause of the problem? Is anyone else on the list using a similar setup? If so, have you seen this problem? Thanks, John On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, J.P. Delport wrote: Hi, On 07/10/10 23:39, J

Re: [osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows on multiple graphics cards

2010-10-08 Thread John Kelso
Hi Robert, We normally run with vsync on, but for these tests we turned it off so we could observe frame rates greater than 96 FPS. We ran some sanity tests, with vsync on, CullDrawThreadPerContext threading and both with and without OSG_SERIALIZE_DRAW_DISPATCH=OFF, but the results were largely

Re: [osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows on multiple graphics cards

2010-10-07 Thread John Kelso
check SLI mosaic if you haven't done this before Hope this helps, Wojtek Lewandowski ------ From: "John Kelso" Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:35 PM To: Subject: [osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows

[osg-users] OSG seems to have a problem scaling to multiple windows on multiple graphics cards

2010-10-07 Thread John Kelso
Hi all, Our immersive system is a single host computer with 8 cores and 4 graphics cards running Linux. (1) We are using OSG 2.8.3. We are having a heck of a hard time getting OSG to take advantage of our multiple graphics cards. Help! Here's what we did: If we load a fairly large model into

Re: [osg-users] One more time: Bug? problem using osg::GraphicsContext::setClearMask in quadBufferStereo to clear both buffers

2010-10-01 Thread John Kelso
the previous run had a white background, when you run in stereo the area outside the viewport is pink- red for the left buffer and white for the right. Thanks, John On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, John Kelso wrote: Hi, We have a sort of oddball immersive system where the physical screens are a bit smaller

Re: [osg-users] One more time: Bug? problem using osg::GraphicsContext::setClearMask in quadBufferStereo to clear both buffers

2010-10-01 Thread John Kelso
Hi John, On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, John Kelso wrote: Is there a way to get osgviewer to create a viewport that is smaller than its window? No... you'd need to create the context and setup the camera's viewport manually to do this. Your mention of this does make me rath

Re: [osg-users] One more time: Bug? problem using osg::GraphicsContext::setClearMask in quadBufferStereo to clear both buffers

2010-10-01 Thread John Kelso
Is there a way to get osgviewer to create a viewport that is smaller than its window? Thanks, John On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Robert Osfield wrote: Hi John, On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:32 AM, John Kelso wrote: If there were any responses to this I missed them.  Can anyone duplicate this, or

[osg-users] One more time: Bug? problem using osg::GraphicsContext::setClearMask in quadBufferStereo to clear both buffers

2010-09-30 Thread John Kelso
Hi, If there were any responses to this I missed them. Can anyone duplicate this, or perhaps tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is this a bug? Basically, when I'm running in stereo the area outside the viewport is only getting set for one of the buffers. Thanks, John On Mon, 20 Sep

[osg-users] problem using osg::GraphicsContext::setClearMask in quadBufferStereo to clear both buffers

2010-09-20 Thread John Kelso
Hi, I have a window whose viewport doesn't fill it, and I want to set the area outside the viewport to a specific color. I'm using: _gc = osg::GraphicsContext::createGraphicsContext(_traits); _gc->setClearColor( osg::Vec4f(1.f, 0.f, 0.f, 1.0f) ); _gc->setClearMask( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL

Re: [osg-users] cmake errors with 2.9.8

2010-07-16 Thread John Kelso
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: Perhaps we could have that function in a separate file which would only be loaded IF(APPLE)? Would that work? J-S I hope you're not asking me! 8^) But, send me something I'd be happy to try it out. Thanks, John__

Re: [osg-users] cmake errors with 2.9.8

2010-07-16 Thread John Kelso
o be sure, this is what I have (run through cat -n): 33 IF(APPLE) 34 FRAMEWORK DESTINATION /Library/Frameworks 35 ENDIF() Thanks, John On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Robert Osfield wrote: Hi Johm, Try ENDIF() rather than ENDIF. Robert. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, John

Re: [osg-users] cmake errors with 2.9.8

2010-07-16 Thread John Kelso
/apps/osg/osg-2.9.8/OpenSceneGraph/CMakeModules/ModuleInstall.cmake:33: Parse error. Function missing ending ")". Instead found left paren with text "(". I suspect this is an easy fix for someone who knows cmake. Thanks, John On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, John Kelso wrote: Hi, Y

Re: [osg-users] cmake errors with 2.9.8

2010-07-16 Thread John Kelso
Hi, Yes, I'm very willing to do this, but realisticaly won't have a chance to do it until August. But, I'll take a look at the effort involved right now, and if it isn't too messy I'll see if I can fit into the interstisal spaces of my schedule and knock it out. Thanks, John On Fri, 16 Jul 20

Re: [osg-users] cmake errors with 2.9.8

2010-07-16 Thread John Kelso
Hi, I'm glad to hear it's something simple. Unfortunately for me, given the nature of the system I work on, it's not something I can change. I'll just have to wait until a newer version of cmake gets installed before I can update our version of OSG. BTW, the README.txt, and the link it refere

[osg-users] cmake errors with 2.9.8

2010-07-15 Thread John Kelso
Hi all, I just tried build OSG 2.9.8 on our CentOS system, using cmake 2.4.7. My cmake command gave me errors. The main thing I see are lines like this: CMake Error: Error in cmake code at .../OpenSceneGraph-2.9.8/CMakeModules/ModuleInstall.cmake:28: INSTALL TARGETS given unknown argument "FR

Re: [osg-users] How to use vertex attributes?

2010-01-12 Thread John Kelso
I have learned to avoid numbers 0, 2, 3 and 8. See http://www.mail-archive.com/osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org/msg26406.html John On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Andrew Holland wrote: Hi, I want to use vertex attributes and I'm having trouble getting it to work. I think the problem should lie withi

Re: [osg-users] is the osg inventor loader broken?

2009-10-20 Thread John Kelso
or plugin, and not Coin. I wonder if it's a problem with 64-bit builds? I have been using Centos 5.2/5.3 on a 64-bit machine for a while now, and my previous use of Inventor was probably on our old 32-bit machines. -Eric On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM, John Kelso mailto:ke...@nist.gov>&

[osg-users] is the osg inventor loader broken?

2009-10-09 Thread John Kelso
Hi, We're running 2.8.2 on a 64-bit Centos system. OSG was configured to use Coin-3.1.1. Not too long ago I ran an old demo using the new releases and noticed that an Inventor file that used to load properly no longer did. Checking around, many others also didn't. Here's a simple example file

[osg-users] building 2.8.1 with dcmtk

2009-06-08 Thread John Kelso
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Robert Osfield wrote: Hi John, Try removing your OpenSceneGraph/CMakeCache.text file and the re-run ./configure to see if that kicks CMake into properly checking all the dependencies. Also try disabling the aggressive warnings to see if that prevents gcc spitting out errors

Re: [osg-users] build errors with 2.8.1

2009-06-05 Thread John Kelso
Hi! I missed the earlier note about the cmake problem being fixed in the branch. Sorry to make noise about a fixed problem. I do test (and squawk) when I can, but as we all know, life sometimes has other plans. I installed DCMTK in a local directory, and just tried to rebuild 2.8.1 in a clean b

Re: [osg-users] build errors with 2.8.1

2009-06-05 Thread John Kelso
_the_.22Expression.22_in_the_.22ELSE_.28Expression.29.22_confusing.3F>, it appears the ability to have empty ENDIF() started in 2.6.0, released 2008-05-06 <http://www.cmake.org/files/>. IMHO, they made a bad choice coding to a recent buildsystem requirement. On 06/05/2009 11:40 AM, John Kels

Re: [osg-users] build errors with 2.8.1

2009-06-05 Thread John Kelso
Hi, I'm a bit surprised by this because as far as I know we have a fairly recent version of Centos. Are there no other Centos users out there trying 2.8.1? cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.3 (Final) which incudes this version of cmake: rpm -q cmake cmake-2.4.8-3.el5.i386 Is cmake-

Re: [osg-users] build errors with 2.8.1

2009-06-04 Thread John Kelso
Hi again, I made the change in CMakeLists.txt and cmake was happy. It still bombs when building- it's in the dicom plugin. We have installed: rpm -q InsightToolkit InsightToolkit-2.8.1-5.fc6.i386 There's a large number of repetitious errors., included below. Any ideas? Many thanks, John

Re: [osg-users] build errors with 2.8.1

2009-06-04 Thread John Kelso
Jun 2009, Paul Melis wrote: Ulrich Hertlein wrote: Hi John, On 4/6/09 7:24 PM, John Kelso wrote: After downloading 2.8.1 and typing cmake, I got this error: "The end of a CMakeLists file was reached with an IF statement that was not closed properly. Within the directory: /usr/local/HEV-bet

[osg-users] build errors with 2.8.1

2009-06-04 Thread John Kelso
Hi again, As a stab in the dark to try and fix my memory leak I decided to try using the latest OSG release. After downloading 2.8.1 and typing cmake, I got this error: "The end of a CMakeLists file was reached with an IF statement that was not closed properly. Within the directory: /usr/lo

Re: [osg-users] memory leak in osg::StateSet::merge() ?

2009-06-04 Thread John Kelso
Hi Robert, I must admit I used a pretty simplistic method. While running my app I run "top" in another window and look at the process' virtual memory size. When running without the merge the virtual memory size never changes. When running with the merge, the size steadily increases. After abo

[osg-users] memory leak in osg::StateSet::merge() ?

2009-06-03 Thread John Kelso
Hi, I have discovered that this line of code: toNode->getOrCreateStateSet()->merge(*(fromNode->getOrCreateStateSet())) ; seems to cause a memory leak. I busted it up: osg::StateSet *fromNodeStateSet = fromNode->getOrCreateStateSet() ; osg::StateSet *toNodeStateSet = toNode->getOrCr

Re: [osg-users] ANN: OSG Training in Washington DC

2009-01-30 Thread John Kelso
Hi, I second that idea. I think any evening would work for me. Do you have a venue for the class yet? That last place was ring-a-ding! John On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Eric Sokolowsky wrote: Paul Martz wrote: Hi all -- Just a reminder regarding the upcoming public OSG training course, to be held

Re: [osg-users] osg::Matrixd --> How to remove rotation for a certainaxis?

2008-02-04 Thread John Kelso
Won't this also remove the scale? -John On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Thrall, Bryan wrote: > > Sorry, hit send too soon, updated below... > > Thrall, Bryan wrote on Monday, February 04, 2008 12:21 PM: >> Tobias M?nch wrote on Monday, February 04, 2008 11:29 AM: >>> Hello at all, >>> >>> I have osg::Matrix

[osg-users] simulation time and sequence node

2007-08-20 Thread John Kelso
Hi, A simple question- is there any reason the simulation time can't go backwards? The current sequence node only supports time going forward, or stopped, which made sense in OSG 1. Now that it's using the simulation time in OSG 2, it would be nice if I could run the sequence nodes back and fort

[osg-users] building doxygen docs in OSG 2.1.3, doxyfile.cmake does not exist

2007-08-02 Thread John Kelso
Hi, When building OSG 2.1.3, I wanted to get the docs built. I passed in the flag -D BUILD_DOCUMENTATION=ON to cmake, and got this error: CMake Error: File /usr/local/HEV-beta/apps/osg/osg-2.1.3/OpenSceneGraph/doc/Doxyfiles/doxyfile.cmake does not exist. CMake Error: Error in cmake code at /usr/