[Paraview] Opacity in paraview cvs

[Jason Hoogland]

Sounds plausible, will try and report back.

hoogs

-----Original Message-----
From: "kmorel" <kmorel at sandia.gov>
To: "Jason Hoogland" <jdhoogland at wbmpl.com.au>, paraview at paraview.org
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:04:44 -0700
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Opacity in paraview cvs

> I'm just guessing here, but this might have to do with the new depth
> peeling
> transparency.  I've never seen the behavior your describe, but it could
> happen if your OpenGL driver has a messed-up implementation of the
> extensions the depth peeling requires.  Bugs in the extensions are not
> all
> that uncommon since they are typically the most recent additions to the
> driver.
> 
> You could try simply updating your video driver.  You could also try
> disabling the depth peeling feature in the source code (I'm not exactly
> sure
> the easiest place to do that).  It may also behoove us to have an
> option to
> disable the feature.
> 
> -Ken
> 
> 
> On 10/7/07 1:19 AM, "Jason Hoogland" <jdhoogland at wbmpl.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Compiled/installed today's cvs on single cpu 32 bit ubuntu feisty,
> only
> > major problem is any change to opacity of anything (point/cell
> volume,
> > glyph) causes seg fault.  I need to use Berk's fixes to legacy vtk
> file
> > set filename order, but I also need this opacity functionality to
> diagnose
> > some runs.
> > 
> > hoogs
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