[Paraview-developers] Development ParaView and Manta

Wed Oct 24 11:03:43 EDT 2012

Seb is right, you have to make a manta view window to access the ray
tracer. When you do the controls are activated.

The little documentation we have is in the source article that came
out when we developed it.
http://www.kitware.com/media/html/RenderedRealismAtNearlyRealTimeRates.html

The part that is directly to relevant to your question and paraview today is:
"start the ParaView server and connect to it, then use the Tools
-->Plugin manager to load the Manta plug-in on both the client and
server processes. When this is done, close the default 3D view and
create a Manta view in its place.

There are settings to control the Manta engine (such as the number of
rendering threads, enabling/disabling shadows) on ParaView's options
dialog. There are also settings to control each actor's material
properties (metal, dielectric, refractive indices, reflectivity) on
the bottom of the Display Tab of the object inspector. Note that the
exotic material types are not compatible with color mapped rendering
(because of the need for data fidelity) and thus, they have no effect
unless the object is rendered in solid color mode.
"

The known bugs and limitations are listed in the ParaView bug tracker.
vtkManta hasn't been under active development for a long while, but
we're always willing to help and or do the work when asked nicely.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Sebastien Jourdain
<sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
> Did you delete the 3D view and create the Manta one ? So you can get
> those "Manta View Options" ?
>
> Seb
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Magician <f_magician at mac.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>>
>> For example, any build options, boot options, system settings or other operations
>> to handle MantaView?
>> I just turned on it on "Manage Plugins...", and checked "Preferences.../Manta View".
>> I tested some sources, but no MantaView options were appeared on the Properties tab.
>>
>>
>> Magician
>>
>>
>> On 2012/10/24, at 23:40, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I don't understand.
>>> What do you mean by "techniques"?
>>>
>>> On 2012/10/24, at 23:34, Magician wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I turned off BUILD_TESTING, and ParaView was successfully built.
>>>>
>>>> But when I activated MantaView, I got errors same as Linux:
>>>>> Generic Warning: In /Users/magician/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/Core/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 467
>>>>> Failed to locate property: Threads
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Generic Warning: In /Users/magician/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/Core/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 467
>>>>> Failed to locate property: EnableShadows
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Generic Warning: In /Users/magician/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/Core/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 467
>>>>> Failed to locate property: Samples
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Generic Warning: In /Users/magician/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/Core/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 467
>>>>> Failed to locate property: MaxDepth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there any techniques about MantaView?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Magician
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2012/10/24, at 22:19, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Looks like a bug regarding the new modular code structure of VTK/ParaView.
>>>>>
>>>>> From the compilation error message, I suspect it will work if you turn
>>>>> off BUILD_TESTING in your cmake configuration of ParaView.
>>>>>
>>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Magician <f_magician at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, it's about fundamental Unix/Linux operation!
>>>>>> I updated my ConfigCompilerFlags.cmake and CPUTime.cc,
>>>>>> and Manta was successfully built.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then I tried to built MantaView with development ParaView,
>>>>>> I still got these errors:
>>>>>>> [ 92%] Building CXX object Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/CMakeFiles/MantaCxxTests.dir/ColorMap.cxx.o
>>>>>>> /Users/magician/ParaView/Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/ColorMap.cxx:19:10: fatal error:
>>>>>>>     'vtkRegressionTestImage.h' file not found
>>>>>>> #include "vtkRegressionTestImage.h"
>>>>>>>        ^
>>>>>>> 1 error generated.
>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/CMakeFiles/MantaCxxTests.dir/ColorMap.cxx.o] Error 1
>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/CMakeFiles/MantaCxxTests.dir/all] Error 2
>>>>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>> My vtkRegressionTestImage.h was found at /Users/magician/ParaView//VTK/Testing/Rendering.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried svnversion to Manta and it dumped "2439M".
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Magician
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2012/10/24, at 2:01, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> patch -p1 < thepatchfile.txt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or just edit the two files and manual change the line flagged with a
>>>>>>> leading - to the one flagged with the leading +. Or perhaps just the
>>>>>>> one file since you've got a ppc_intrinsics.h handy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then rebuild manta and follow up by rebuilding paraview.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Magician <f_magician at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your reply.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This patch allows manta 2439 to build on 10.7 = OSX Lion.
>>>>>>>> How to apply it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I found ppc_intrinsics.h is in /usr/include/gcc/darwin/4.2.
>>>>>>>> If I set include path correctly, make may works good.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Magician
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2012/10/22, at 23:37, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Not sure what is wrong on Linux. But I do know that the manta plugin
>>>>>>>>> works in our 3.14.1 binaries (mac and linux - not windows). Those
>>>>>>>>> errors make me think that you don't have a manta view open and that
>>>>>>>>> the client is trying to access the manta view specific properties
>>>>>>>>> (shadows, threads etc) on a standard 3D view window.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This patch allows manta 2439 to build on 10.7 = OSX Lion.
>>>>>>>>> Index: CMake/ConfigCompilerFlags.cmake
>>>>>>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>>>>>> --- CMake/ConfigCompilerFlags.cmake     (revision 2439)
>>>>>>>>> +++ CMake/ConfigCompilerFlags.cmake     (working copy)
>>>>>>>>> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
>>>>>>>>>  SET(CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk" CACHE
>>>>>>>>> STRING "OS X Sysroot" FORCE)
>>>>>>>>>  COMPARE_VERSION_STRINGS(${APPLE_VERSION} "10" APPLE_SNOW_LEOPARD_CMP)
>>>>>>>>>  IF (APPLE_SNOW_LEOPARD_CMP GREATER -1)
>>>>>>>>> -      SET(CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk" CACHE
>>>>>>>>> STRING "OS X Sysroot" FORCE)
>>>>>>>>> +      SET(CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk" CACHE
>>>>>>>>> STRING "OS X Sysroot" FORCE)
>>>>>>>>>  ENDIF(APPLE_SNOW_LEOPARD_CMP GREATER -1)
>>>>>>>>> ELSE(MANTA_TARGET_LEOPARD)
>>>>>>>>> SET(CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk" CACHE
>>>>>>>>> STRING "OS X Sysroot" FORCE)
>>>>>>>>> Index: Core/Util/CPUTime.cc
>>>>>>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>>>>>> --- Core/Util/CPUTime.cc        (revision 2439)
>>>>>>>>> +++ Core/Util/CPUTime.cc        (working copy)
>>>>>>>>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>>>>>>>>> #include <Core/Thread/ThreadError.h>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> #if defined(__APPLE__)
>>>>>>>>> -#include <ppc_intrinsics.h>
>>>>>>>>> +//#include <ppc_intrinsics.h>
>>>>>>>>> #include <mach/mach.h>
>>>>>>>>> #include <mach/mach_time.h>
>>>>>>>>> #elif _WIN32
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>>>>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>>>>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>>>>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>>>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>>>>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Magician <f_magician at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Seb,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm trying again to build Manta on Mac and Linux (CentOS 6.2).
>>>>>>>>>> Yesterday I set MANTA_SOURCE, but today I'm trying with MANTA_BUILD.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On CentOS, I built Manta and set MANTA_BUILD of ParaView CMake,
>>>>>>>>>> and the building process was completed.
>>>>>>>>>> I used ParaView 3.14.1 Released sources in this case.
>>>>>>>>>> But if I startup ParaView and activate MantaView, no materials are
>>>>>>>>>> selectable, and "Edit->Settings...->Manta View" dumped errors:
>>>>>>>>>>> Generic Warning: In /home/magician/Desktop/ParaView-3.14.1-Source/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 444
>>>>>>>>>>> Failed to locate property: Threads
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Generic Warning: In /home/magician/Desktop/ParaView-3.14.1-Source/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 444
>>>>>>>>>>> Failed to locate property: EnableShadows
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Generic Warning: In /home/magician/Desktop/ParaView-3.14.1-Source/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 444
>>>>>>>>>>> Failed to locate property: Samples
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Generic Warning: In /home/magician/Desktop/ParaView-3.14.1-Source/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx, line 444
>>>>>>>>>>> Failed to locate property: MaxDepth
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mac OS 10.7.4, wrong CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT of CMake of Manta was found.
>>>>>>>>>> That was "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk", but XCode 4.3.3 has
>>>>>>>>>> MacOSX10.6.sdk inside.
>>>>>>>>>> So I copied it at /Developer/SDKs and configured.
>>>>>>>>>> But I got errors on make process of Manta:
>>>>>>>>>>> [  1%] Building CXX object Core/CMakeFiles/Manta_Core.dir/Util/CPUTime.o
>>>>>>>>>>> /Users/magician/Documents/ParaViewTest/Manta/Core/Util/CPUTime.cc:5:28: error: ppc_intrinsics.h: No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [Core/CMakeFiles/Manta_Core.dir/Util/CPUTime.o] Error 1
>>>>>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [Core/CMakeFiles/Manta_Core.dir/all] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> All Manta's revisions are r2439.
>>>>>>>>>> Latest revision (r2540) could be build on Xcode 4.3.3,
>>>>>>>>>> so r2439 may have some problems on latest Xcode.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Magician
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 2012/10/22, at 1:16, Magician wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Seb,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your advices.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The first problem is ... I'm not so familiar with Subversion.
>>>>>>>>>>> I tried to check ParaView and Manta's latest revision, but I couldn't.
>>>>>>>>>>> When I boot my ParaView, the name is shown as
>>>>>>>>>>> "ParaView 3.14.1-2219-g76768da 64-bit".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And as you mensioned, I found the issue about Manta's revision on ParaView Wiki.
>>>>>>>>>>> It said r2439 is applicable, but I got another error with r2439:
>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 92%] Building CXX object Plugins/Manta/VTK/CMakeFiles/vtkManta.dir/vtkMantaObjectFactory.cxx.o
>>>>>>>>>>>> Linking CXX shared library ../../../lib/libvtkManta-pv3.14.dylib
>>>>>>>>>>>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Manta::MutexPool::MutexPool(char const*, int)", referenced from:
>>>>>>>>>>>>  Manta::DynBVH::DynBVH(bool)in vtkMantaActor.cxx.o
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Manta::MutexPool::~MutexPool()", referenced from:
>>>>>>>>>>>>  Manta::DynBVH::DynBVH(bool)in vtkMantaActor.cxx.o
>>>>>>>>>>>> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
>>>>>>>>>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>>>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [lib/libvtkManta-pv3.14.1.dylib] Error 1
>>>>>>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [Plugins/Manta/VTK/CMakeFiles/vtkManta.dir/all] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Magician
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 2012/10/22, at 0:20, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> As far as I remember, you shouldn't use the latest version of Manta. Check which one is recommended on the ParaView wiki.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Moreover, what do you mean by ParaView r2219 ?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> This is the latest master sha taken from the dashboard superbuild. 48a09a12f230d4b850588b3a316f8d94569c9870
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Seb
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Oct 21, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Magician <f_magician at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to build development distribution of ParaView (r2219).
>>>>>>>>>>>>> My environment is Mac OS 10.7.4, Xcode 4.3.3, CMake 2.8.9, Python 2.7.1, and Qt 4.8.2.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I only activated ENABLE_PYTHON and the building process successfully finished.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now I'd like to build it with Manta Plug-in.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I got the latest sources from svn and built it as a stand-alone binary.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It works very good on my X11 (a metallic red ball was shown).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> But building with ParaView, I got these errors:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 92%] Built target vtkMantaPythonD
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/vtkMantaPython.so
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 92%] Built target vtkMantaPython
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 92%] Building CXX object Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/CMakeFiles/MantaCxxTests.dir/ColorMap.cxx.o
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /Users/magician/ParaView/Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/ColorMap.cxx:19:36: error: vtkRegressionTestImage.h: No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /Users/magician/ParaView/Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/ColorMap.cxx: In function ‘int ColorMap(int, char**)’:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /Users/magician/ParaView/Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/ColorMap.cxx:332: error: ‘vtkRegressionTestImage’ was not declared in this scope
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /Users/magician/ParaView/Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/ColorMap.cxx:333: error: ‘vtkRegressionTester’ has not been declared
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/CMakeFiles/MantaCxxTests.dir/ColorMap.cxx.o] Error 1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [Plugins/Manta/VTK/Testing/CMakeFiles/MantaCxxTests.dir/all] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> When rebuilding ParaView, I changed these CMake options:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON: ON
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_MantaView: ON
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MANTA_SOURCE: /Users/magician/Documents/Manta/trunk/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> How can I solve the problem?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Magician
>>>>
>>>