Re: [osg-users] Has anyone tried 64-bit SUSE enterprise

2007-08-18 Thread Brede Johansen
Hi Jan, The framerate continues to drop so if it starts at 60Hz it slowly drops and reaches 30Hz after aproximatly 20 seconds. It is not a one time drop due to the HUD. This happens in SingleThreaded mode with a very simple model. Brede On 8/17/07, Jan Ciger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [osg-users] running vrml plugin on 2.0

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Jan, On 8/17/07, Jan Ciger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try forcing different threading models by using the OSG_THREADING env > > var, or setting it on the command line. See osgviewer --help and > > osgviewer --help-env for details. > > SingleThreaded seems to work, DrawThreadPerContext hang

Re: [osg-users] Color vs. B&W images as textures

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Yefei, I don't really follow what the problem is. Is it a problem in the Jpeg plugin? What do you mean by black and white mode? Do you mean its the plugin is generating an luminance or intensity image? Robert. On 8/18/07, Yefei He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, folks, > > I have noti

Re: [osg-users] Has anyone tried 64-bit SUSE enterprise

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Brede, On 8/18/07, Brede Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The framerate continues to drop so if it starts at 60Hz it slowly drops and > reaches 30Hz after aproximatly 20 seconds. It is not a one time drop due to > the HUD. This happens in SingleThreaded mode with a very simple model. Th

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Antoine Hue
--- Begin Message --- Hello, answering to Nick Prudent's proposal for a Windows front-end for osgdem, I would suggest to create an XML configuration file parser. XML files are easily editable from specialized XML editor given a schema definition of the file content. Advantages over a speci

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Nick Prudent
Antoine, Thanks for the advice. Actually, I have already started saving osgDem parameters as XML to allow users to save their sessions. My clients have "Command-Line-O-Phobia", so they asked me to add a simple UI for executing osgDem. It's not difficult, but I was wondering if anyone had done

Re: [osg-users] Color vs. B&W images as textures

2007-08-18 Thread Yefei He
Hi, Robert, Sorry for the confusion. I'm using the term by photographers (black and white film vs. color film). By black and white I mean gray scale images. I think there might be something particular with the first jpeg file that causes some attributes be set which makes all future images as

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Antoine Hue
Nick Prudent wrote: > Antoine, > > Thanks for the advice. Actually, I have already started saving osgDem > parameters as XML to allow users to save their sessions. > > My clients have "Command-Line-O-Phobia", so they asked me to add a simple UI > for executing osgDem. It's not difficult, but I wa

Re: [osg-users] Color vs. B&W images as textures

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Osfield
Do mean you are reusing a Texture by applying new Images to it? On 8/18/07, Yefei He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Robert, > > Sorry for the confusion. I'm using the term by photographers > (black and white film vs. color film). By black and white I mean > gray scale images. I think there

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Osfield
FYI, I am currently changing the way that VTPB defines its source and destination graphs. The source data is based on the osgTerrain::Terrain/Layer classes and serialization. The destination graph is not yet set but right now looks most likely to reuse PagedLOD directly. The serialization will

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Nick Prudent
Robert, Thanks for the update. No matter how it's implemented internally, there is still a need for my clients to not have to hack a command line or a text/xml file. They are not programmers (they don't even use Windows's CommandPrompt). When VPB is up and running, I'll just update the back-en

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Osfield
On 8/18/07, Nick Prudent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert, > > Thanks for the update. No matter how it's implemented internally, there is > still a need for my clients to not have to hack a command line or a text/xml > file. They are not programmers (they don't even use Windows's > CommandPrompt

Re: [osg-users] running vrml plugin on 2.0

2007-08-18 Thread Jan Ciger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Robert Osfield wrote: > > CullThreaPerCameraDrawThreadPerContext hangs on my machine new > machine, so this is something I can reproduce and while I don't know > what the problem is I should be able to fix. DrawThreadPerContext is > 100% reli

Re: [osg-users] Has anyone tried 64-bit SUSE enterprise

2007-08-18 Thread Jan Ciger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brede Johansen wrote: > Hi Jan, > > The framerate continues to drop so if it starts at 60Hz it slowly drops and > reaches 30Hz after aproximatly 20 seconds. It is not a one time drop due to > the HUD. This happens in SingleThreaded mode with a very

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Serge Lages
On 8/18/07, Robert Osfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/18/07, Nick Prudent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert, > > > > Thanks for the update. No matter how it's implemented internally, there > is > > still a need for my clients to not have to hack a command line or a > text/xml > > file.

Re: [osg-users] Has anyone tried 64-bit SUSE enterprise

2007-08-18 Thread Brede Johansen
Jan and Robert, This happens with the latest ForceWare release 162.18. osgviewer from SVN. I have two screens attached to a 8800GTX and one screen attached to a 8600GS. I know the GS isn't the best but I had a spare slot and a spare screen so I had to try. The CPU is a Core 2 Duo. Brede On

Re: [osg-users] Has anyone tried 64-bit SUSE enterprise

2007-08-18 Thread Jan Ciger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brede Johansen wrote: > Jan and Robert, > > This happens with the latest ForceWare release 162.18. > osgviewer from SVN. > I have two screens attached to a 8800GTX and one screen attached to a > 8600GS. I know the GS isn't the best but I had a spare

[osg-users] ECW Image Files - Secret Tricks?

2007-08-18 Thread Nick Prudent
After compiling osgdb_ecw.dll, I've sucessfully loaded an ECW image file using osgViewer --image option, yet the same file produces the following message in osgDem: ERROR 4: `ortho_image_ecw\_1_8_scale2.ecw' not recognised as a supported file format. Aren't osgDem and osgViewer using the s

Re: [osg-users] ECW Image Files - Secret Tricks?

2007-08-18 Thread Antoine Hue
Nick Prudent wrote: > After compiling osgdb_ecw.dll, I've sucessfully loaded an ECW image file > using osgViewer --image option, yet the same file produces the following > message in osgDem: > > ERROR 4: `ortho_image_ecw\_1_8_scale2.ecw' not recognised as a supported > file format. > > Th

Re: [osg-users] ECW Image Files - Secret Tricks?

2007-08-18 Thread Nick Prudent
Antoine, I do not understand your last sentence: "However, if another plugin can, this error becomes a waring." Does it mean that I should call GDAL directly to convert the image into GeoTIFF, then use as input for osgDEM? (PS: Peut-etre pouvez-vous m'expliquer en francais. Merci pour le coup d

Re: [osg-users] osgDem Windows Front-End

2007-08-18 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hello Nick, > I'm specially interested in how to provide feedback > while the data is being generated. I worked on a renderfarm management software in the past, and what I would do is read the stdout of the external process (in that case, a command-line renderer like Mental Ray or Maya/Lightw

Re: [osg-users] ECW Image Files - Secret Tricks?

2007-08-18 Thread Nick Prudent
Antoine, You're right: the error is in GDAL. I tried GDAL_CONVERT.EXE and was greated with a similar error message. The GDAL.org page (http://www.gdal.org/frmt_ecw.html) mentions that ECW is an "option". So it looks like I'll have to compile my own version of GDAL and link with ERMapper's SDK

Re: [osg-users] running vrml plugin on 2.0

2007-08-18 Thread Jan Ciger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Osfield wrote: > #if 0 > if (XInitThreads() == 0) > { > osg::notify(osg::NOTICE) << "Error: XInitThreads() failed. > Aborting." << std::endl; > exit(1); > } > else > { >

Re: [osg-users] ECW Image Files - Secret Tricks?

2007-08-18 Thread Gordon Tomlinson
FYI Gdal has lots of options that require the user to enable them when building typically from #define on the build command line. Also note that many of the options may require other 3rdparty products to be installed and or built such as Mr Sid, Xerces among many other _

Re: [osg-users] osgDEM layers and CoordinateSystemNode

2007-08-18 Thread Gert van Maren
Hi Robert, > Try the child below the MultTextureControl, this should be the > CoordinateSystemNode you are after. Yep that did the trick. All good. We'll have a look at extending the multitexture control to more than 3 layers. On another note: on the VPB site I read: > These databases can the