[Paraview-developers] Windows 7 transparency appears too transparent (second posting)

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Could you share the file? Any other info to reproduce this issue? This
was on Windows still?

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Hallock, Kevin
<Kevin.Hallock at pfizer.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed 5.1.0 and it crashes when I try to open one of the files that we built in 5.0.0; here is the crash error:
>
> Problem signature:
> Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
> Application Name: paraview.exe
> Application Version: 0.0.0.0
> Application Timestamp: 5765d395
> Fault Module Name: StackHash_b4ee
> Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
> Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
> Exception Code: c0000005
> Exception Offset: 0000000002dbfec2
> OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
> Locale ID: 1033
> Additional Information 1: b4ee
> Additional Information 2: b4ee5de6a2322745523997a782b35692
> Additional Information 3: 277e
> Additional Information 4: 277e19c30fbd5f6bb531ec9e027c37c3
>
> Are there additional troubleshooting steps you would like for me to try?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 2:39 PM
> To: Hallock, Kevin; David Lonie
> Cc: Paraview-developers
> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] Windows 7 transparency appears too transparent (second posting)
>
> Kevin,
>
> I suspect it's a driver issue. For some reason depth peeling is not
> working (or ParaView is determining cannot work) on your Windows
> machine.Can you try using ParaView 5.1.0?  The depth peeling code was
> rewritten in 5.1.0 and I wonder if it fares any better.
>
> cc-ing Dave Lonie who wrote the new depth peeling code.
>
> Utkkarsh
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Hallock, Kevin
> <Kevin.Hallock at pfizer.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I built a model in Paraview 5.0.0 (64-bit) on my Mac (El Capitan) and
>> several of the surfaces have 0.5 opacity, which looks fine on my Mac. When I
>> open the same model in Paraview 5.0.0 (64-bit) on a Windows 7 computer the
>> transparency no longer behaves well. Transparent surfaces disappear at
>> certain angles, the back face appears less transparent, etc.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> PS – I originally posted this with screen shots of the problem, but the
>> original message was held for several days of review so I cancelled the
>> posting.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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