[Imstk-developers] Default renderer

[Alexis Girault]

That's perfect: we need the decoupled class for ease of use and testing,
and you can instantiate a VTKRenderer or a VulkanRenderer based on
preprocessor definitions, themselves defined based on the cmake variables.

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

http://www.kitware.com
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Milef, Nicholas Boris <milefn at rpi.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
> ------------------------------
> *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.
>
> http://www.kitware.com
> (919) 969-6990 x325
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Andinet Enquobahrie <
> 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>
>> 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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