[Paraview] Background in 3D mode

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Cindy,

Cory is right, background texture is not supported in CAVE (or
immersive) mode. It is supported for flat tiled displays however (the
case where all your screens are in the same plane.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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