[Imstk-developers] Default renderer

[Milef, Nicholas Boris]

Hi Alexis,

That makes sense. The problem was that I made a set of abstract classes that is currently decoupled from the VTK and the Vulkan renderers. The simulation manager used to have an imstkVTKRenderer class, and I removed that and replaced it with the abstract imstkRenderer class. I could use the CMake variables to change which renderer gets added to the Simulation Manager class.
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From: Alexis Girault [alexis.girault at kitware.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 12:38 PM
To: Andinet Enquobahrie
Cc: Milef, Nicholas Boris; imstk-developers at imstk.org
Subject: Re: [Imstk-developers] Default renderer

Hi Nick,

Indeed we'll have VTK as default, however the switch between VTK and Vulkan can be made at configuration time in CMake with a variable like 'USE_Vulkan` defaulted to OFF. Based on this cmake variable we can then download/compile VTK or Vulkan+dependencies and define pre-compilation variables to use VTK or Vulkan c++ code.

I described the process a couple weeks ago on your merge request here: https://gitlab.kitware.com/iMSTK/iMSTK/merge_requests/111/diffs#9a2aa4db38d3115ed60da621e012c0efc0172aae_139_152

Best,

Alexis Girault
R&D Engineer in Medical Computing
Kitware, Inc.

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On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Andinet Enquobahrie <andinet.enqu at kitware.com<mailto:andinet.enqu at kitware.com>> wrote:
VTK should be the default renderer.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Milef, Nicholas Boris <milefn at rpi.edu<mailto:milefn at rpi.edu>> wrote:
> I'm almost done with the abstraction layer, but how should the default
> renderer be handled? Should the user explicity define the renderer they want
> or should VTK be the default? I'm just curious because there might be a case
> if the user doesn't want to download VTK since it takes some time to
> download/compile.
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