On Nov 21, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Helena,
> 
> wxNVIZ in 6.4.2 is at the place where it was more or less a year and a half 
> ago. It is sort of functional, but many things do not work. Anyone wanting to 
> have a satisfying 3D imaging experience should use the TclTk version of NVIZ. 
> I believe that wxNVIZ does not compile by default and IMHO, precompiled 
> binaries probably should not compile it for wide distribution so that people 
> don't get the wrong idea about its capabilities--which are extraordinarily 
> good in GRASS 7. I'll probably stop compiling it soon. 

I totally agree with that, Helena
> 
> I'm not sure about the wxdigitizer, but I *think* that it works pretty well. 
> I wish I could compile the digitizer without wxNVIZ in 6.4.2. Anyone know how 
> to do that?


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> On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:28 AM, <grass-dev-requ...@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
>> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:02:17 -0500
>> From: Helena Mitasova <hmit...@ncsu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] 6.4.2rc3 this week, then 6.4.2 by the
>>       holidays?
>> To: GRASS developers list <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
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>> 
>> I think that this is a good plan - the latest changes definitely need 
>> testing.
>> 
>> Unrelated to init.sh I just compiled the release branch and I have the 3D 
>> view enabled in Map display,
>> however, when I run it, lighting does not work (and maybe other things as 
>> well)
>> - although this has been fixed in GRASS7.
>> 
>> Is this the intention? If yes, should there
>> be some message that to get the full functionality the user should run TclTk 
>> nviz
>> or would it be possible to backport the rest of wxnviz to GRASS6.4.2 release?
>> Or is the problem on my side that I did not update and compile wxnviz 
>> properly?
>> 
>> Helena
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