Re: [osg-users] trouble in having a PRECISE intersection point in ..

2006-06-06 Thread Mathias Froehlich
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:22, David Lascombe wrote: Thanks but I am not sure to understand how and when to start the traversal.. Actually the database is already earth centered, I am not changing its coordinate system but I compute new coordinates for each entity so that they are earth

[osg-users] Compilation on HP-UX

2006-07-26 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, I have compilation problems with osg-1.0/1.1 on HP-UX, but I am not yet sure if this is an osg or HP-UX problem. One of the problems is the way OpenGL extension are handled. For example include/osg/BufferObject contains (more or less) the code #ifndef GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object typedef

Re: [osg-users] Matrix, Vector , Eigenvalue, Singular Value Dec. , ...

2006-09-06 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:37, Adrian Egli wrote: has somebody a opensource LGPL math (algebra) library? i am working on a real math problem, i has a matlab implementation (prototype runing) but i like to integrat it now. What do you need? What kind of algorithms do you need, which

Re: [osg-users] where's IRIX ?

2006-10-19 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Thursday 19 October 2006 21:47, Don Burns wrote: Something Freudian, something possibly evil, something I can file away as sins of omission: I forgot to add IRIX, to the list of OS's to vote for on the front page poll. After several of you listed IRIX in your Other choices, I

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-06 Thread Mathias Froehlich
On Monday 06 November 2006 10:46, Norman Vine wrote: FYI http:/www.flightgear.org Norman Hehe :) True. Still working on getting everything up working again. There are still some problems/bugs in current flightgear cvs' version. I expect that this will settle down within the next weeks ...

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-06 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Monday 06 November 2006 11:27, Robert Osfield wrote: I just just checked through my osg-merged and osg-submissions folders and can't find any subject line relating to the RGB plugin. Could you point me at the patch?

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-06 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Monday 06 November 2006 12:29, Robert Osfield wrote: I have just revied the fix and it looks like a work around for non complient data rather than an actual bug fix. Why was this needed? What was the source of the problem RGB files? That rgb files are in flightgear's data cvs. I do at

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-07 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Monday 06 November 2006 18:10, Robert Osfield wrote: It appears to me that the length of the run length encoding is wrong. That change limits that to the min of the value from the file and the remaining line length. May be this is suficient? I have just added some debug

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-07 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Robert, On Tuesday 07 November 2006 10:27, Robert Osfield wrote: Ok. If you have an other fix for that. I would like to test that on our rgb files. I have pondered on adding the a check later, but there is two seperate loops later in the code, which would make it better to do the

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-07 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Tuesday 07 November 2006 13:06, Robert Osfield wrote: I have just checked in your workaround with a tweak to support multi-byte colour channels. I don't have any such files to test against so I can only hope that its correct. I works fine for your sun.rgba and fine for all the OSG's

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-07 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:11, Robert Osfield wrote: I'm not the expert on ac3d, so hopefully Geof Michel the author can review and chip in. Is he still around here? In summary we have many people reporting performance problems with osg compared to plib especially under win32.

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-07 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Monday 06 November 2006 18:10, Robert Osfield wrote: The question is what to do about it. Do you know the history of this file? Is there some export tool that is being used that is creating doggy .rgbs? He told me now that he used gimp(!) for that ... Greetings

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-08 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:22, Robert Osfield wrote: Traversal is generally quick, I certainly wouldn't worry about cost of the virtuals used during a traversal, the big hit you contend with is memory bandwidth when doing a traversal. How many nodes are you updating? 10?

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-08 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:23, Robert Osfield wrote: There are lots of issues besides thse to be mindful when composing an efficient scene graph. There are also lots of tips and tricks you can deploy to help out. What is appropriate will depend on where you are starting

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-08 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Good morning Robert, On Wednesday 08 November 2006 18:16, Robert Osfield wrote: At a first pass I just watch the update, cull and draw and GPU stats that osgProducer::Viewer provides. Then once this gives me an overall picture I then look at the traversal that is giving the most problem. Do

Re: [osg-users] Oct 30 - FlightGear cuts over to OpenSceneGraph in CVS HEAD.

2006-11-09 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Thursday 09 November 2006 11:09, Robert Osfield wrote: On 11/9/06, Mathias Froehlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning Robert, Good morning, yep we are both in Europe, so morning it is for both of us :) :) osg::Material is a bit of an oddity in that its the only place

Re: [osg-users] Wiki page on binary file versioning

2006-11-17 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Fred, On Friday 17 November 2006 00:22, Frederic Bouvier wrote: The other thing I don't get yet, is how osgDB behaves when it wants to load a plugin. Either the plugins are searched like usual. But that leaves the discussed binary compatibility problems. To avoid this you have to

Re: [osg-users] Adding threading to QOsgWidget

2007-01-15 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Monday 15 January 2007 20:56, Ben Cain wrote: Is there an example (or even hints) showing the proper way to add threading to the QOsgWidget class developed by Gazihan Alankus? See the method QOsgWidget::paintGL() and it’s calls to osgUtil methods: update(), cull(), and draw().

Re: [osg-users] Thread-safe reference counting viaatomicincrement/decrement

2007-01-16 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:31, Mike Wittman wrote: I don't have any experimental data on performance at this point, and I don't know that this would be a significant bottleneck. I'm just interested to see if anyone has previously considered this approach in the event that it does

Re: [osg-users] Thread-safe reference counting viaatomicincrement/decrement

2007-01-16 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Tuesday 16 January 2007 13:48, Robert Osfield wrote: On 1/16/07, Mathias Froehlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And at least on MSVC and gcc = 4.1 there are compiler builtin functions to do atomic counts. With that knowledge the compiler can probably even optimize successive

[osg-users] Re: [osg-submissions] Draft atomic operations for reference counts

2007-01-23 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, ... moved to osg users on Roberts request ... On Tuesday 23 January 2007 09:57, Robert Osfield wrote: The OSG is very deliberately *not* meant to be thread safe in a general purpose way, such safety adds huge overheads in desgin, implementation and runtime performance. The OSG has gone

Re: [osg-users] FlightGear rendering errors since 2007-01-21 18:25:00

2007-01-23 Thread Mathias Froehlich
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 18:44, Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Currently I'm hunting severe rendering errors with FlightGear that were introduced with the changes at 2007-01-21 between 18:24:00 and 18:25:00 UTC, but I'll post this into a new thread,

Re: [osg-users] FlightGear rendering errors since 2007-01-21 18:25:00

2007-01-24 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Wednesday 24 January 2007 10:32, Robert Osfield wrote: One thing to look for is output of error messsages to the console - by default the OSG checks once every frame for OpenGL errors and if finds out it reports it, and ups the granularity that it checks for errors. If the OSG is

Re: [osg-users] Viewer design

2007-01-24 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Wednesday 24 January 2007 10:45, Robert Osfield wrote: As Richard suggest what we really need is a FrameStamp with both a real time ReferenceTime and the possibility of SimulationTime. I suggested this in another thread during the last couple of weeks. Yep, something like that

Re: [osg-users] proposal: osg::ref_ptr + osg::observer_ptr+ osg::Referenced = libSmartPointer ?

2007-01-25 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:01, Ignacio García wrote: I have been thinking the same, using ref_ptr in non-OSG code, with the same drawbacks you are seeing. You say that ref_ptr depends on OpenThreads, and Producer has a Producer::ref_ptr similar or equal to osg::ref_ptr. After all

Re: [osg-users] FlightGear rendering errors since 2007-01-21 18:25:00

2007-01-29 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Monday 29 January 2007 11:17, Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: http://foxtrot.mgras.net/bitmap/FGFS/FGFS-OSG_2007-01-21_18:25:00.jpg Actually this screen should show a panel and a nice view out the windshield, Finally, I herewith nominate Mathias for the accolade

Re: [osg-users] Re: [osg-submissions] Draft atomic operations for reference counts

2007-01-30 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:09, Robert Osfield wrote: It has occurred to me that perhaps we could put the list of observers in a singleton rather attached to each Referenced object. This singleton would have a something like a mapReferenced*,set Observer* and a single mutex

Re: [osg-users] svn simplification

2007-02-19 Thread Mathias Froehlich
On Monday 19 February 2007 23:16, Joakim Simonsson wrote: I wasn't aware of that it is was version controlled. According to Jan's mail: It is possible to omit the externals when you are checking out something with the svn:external property set. The svn:external property doesn't allow you to

Re: [osg-users] float == 1.0f?

2007-02-26 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Monday 26 February 2007 09:23, Anders Backman wrote: I just got stuck on something I been worried about for quite some time regarding the Math library in osg: bool Matrix::isIdentity() const { return _mat[0][0]==1.0f _mat[0][1]==0.0f _mat[0][2]==0.0f

[osg-users] math functions in global namespace

2007-03-26 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, We have some problems with the osg/Math header on solaris. Depending on the order of inclusion we have a redefinition of some libm functions in math.h or sunmath.h that are already defined in osg/Math. Given that this is an osg header I would suggest that those functions are put in the

Re: [osg-users] limit Camera display framerate

2007-06-04 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Friday 01 June 2007 18:05, Robert Osfield wrote: On 6/1/07, Emmanuel Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay, and in this case, is it possible / tested to have multiple viewers on the same OpenGL Context ?... You can multiple views that share the same graphics context, but

Re: [osg-users] limit Camera display framerate

2007-06-04 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Monday 04 June 2007 10:33, Robert Osfield wrote: As part of the core OSG's viewer library there is a limit on how much flexibility we can provide without ending up with a really convoluted API and implementation. Sure. Is there any callback in the camera that can disable

Re: [osg-users] limit Camera display framerate

2007-06-04 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Monday 04 June 2007 11:09, Robert Osfield wrote: The update callbacks on a camera won't be called (I think :-) if the NodeMask is 0 so it wouldn't be suitable to doing the toggling. You could do the toggling the main loop though, i.e. Ok, I think I just need to play with that a

Re: [osg-users] Introducing my assistant... Martin Lavery

2007-06-04 Thread Mathias Froehlich
On Monday 04 June 2007 13:09, Robert Osfield wrote: Today Martin Lavery has begun work alongside me. Martin will be doing pair wise programming with me sharing keyboard/mouse duties to help me recover from the Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). Martin is newbee to the OSG, as well as OpenGL and

Re: [osg-users] Compile Error: osgManipulator with SunStudio

2007-06-05 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:10, Robert Osfield wrote: On 6/5/07, Mathias Froehlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had a great week and presented flightgear with a multi view setup that was possible due to osg. Good to hear things went well, and multi-view goodness is here to stay

Re: [osg-users] Compile Error: osgManipulator with SunStudio

2007-06-05 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:34, Robert Osfield wrote: I was unable to follow development closely for more than one week (we were exhibiting on LinuxTag) Hey, hey, hows about a little news report for us less lucky souls :-) We had a great week and presented flightgear with a

Re: [osg-users] Compile Error: osgManipulator with SunStudio

2007-06-05 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi, On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:19, Norman Vine wrote: Looks like you had way to much fun :-) http://sadr.dfn.de/~wirtz/_bilder_linuxtag_2007/Linuxtag/subalbum_1.html Now got an other link to pics - still not mine: http://www.oflebbe.de/FgShow2/ Have fun ... Mathias -- Dr. Mathias

Re: [osg-users] /usr/lib64 in build?

2007-07-11 Thread Mathias Froehlich
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 16:33, Robert Osfield wrote: On 7/10/07, Andy Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting linker and compiler flags. I don't know anything about cmake commands, so I guess I'm going to have to learn more about cmake itself. You should be able to change the lib

Re: [osg-users] osg::ClipNode

2007-07-12 Thread Mathias Froehlich
Hi Robert, On Wednesday 11 July 2007 18:30, Robert Osfield wrote: We don't just support decoration of subgraphs to support clip planes as its really useful to decouple the positioning of the clip planes from the use of them. See the osgclip example for why this is useful. Yep, but it is also