[Paraview] Background in 3D mode

[Cory Quammen]

Hi Cindy,

I'm not sure if background images are supported on tiled screens.
Maybe someone with more experience with tiled displays can chime in.

- Cory

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Cindy Castro <cindy.castro at uvsq.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using ParaView in client/server mode with stereo. I have a cluster
> with 4 nodes, 1 GPU each (NVIDIA K5000) and 8 screens for display.
>
> My problem is I can not find how to span a background over my 8 screens with
> ParaView.
> The background is displayed on each screen. 3D models are well displayed
> in 3D (no problem with that). Please find attached files to explain :
> - paraview_client shows the client with the view I would like to display
> - wall_display is how the servers display 3D model and background on my
> 8 screens... (3D model OK but background NOK)
> - wall_config.pvx is the PVX file for the wall configuration
>
> The server is run with the command:
> mpirun -np 8 -machinefile
> /opt/software/ParaView/PVscripts/server_machinefile.txt
> /opt/software/ParaView/ParaView-5.0.0-bin/bin/pvserver -rc
> --client-host=mire-pc /opt/software/ParaView/PVresources/wall_config.pvx
>
> Server-machine.txt files is
> Node1 slot=2
> Node2 slot=2
> Node3 slot=2
> Node4 slot=2
>
> I tried tiles mode but the display is not in the right order... and I can
> not change my x screen configuration which is right. I did not find where I
> could change the procs order in MPI.
>
> Can you help me ? Is it possible to span a background over several
> screens in 3D mode ? It would be really useful when rendering 3D models.
>
> Regards,
>
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Cory Quammen
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