[Paraview] parallel and transparency

[Takuya OSHIMA]

I forgot to mention that you need to restart ParaView after the
setting change. Also, I attached my case comparing the setting on
(on.jpg) and off (off.jpg).

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN

From: Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] parallel and transparency
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 12:28:01 +0900 (東京 (標準時))

> I am not sure if exactly same, but had a very similar rendering
> problem with multiple overlapped opacity-mapped surfaces on
> 4.1.0. Turning on Use Immediate Mode Rendering in the Render View
> settings solved the problem on my Mac. Now, I checked on a Windows to
> make sure that it was a cross-platform workaround but it didn't
> work. Anyway, you might give it a try if you still have not.
> 
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
> 
> From: Burlen Loring <burlen.loring at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Paraview] parallel and transparency
> Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:24:26 -0700
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Transparency doesn't seem to be working correctly in parallel w/ 
>> multiple actors(see attached image, bad.png). The check box to enable 
>> depth peeling and slider to set the number of peels don't seem to be 
>> working either. the slider shows 4 and is disabled. disabling depth 
>> peeling doesn't change the image at all.  I see similar problems with 
>> volume rendering w/ multiple actors. With only one transparent actor 
>> things look potentially OK. Is this a known issue? Are there other 
>> settings?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Burlen
>> 
> 
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