[vtk-developers] Merging of new rendering branch to VTK (Marcus D. Hanwell)

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi Marcus,
  Looking forward to trying this out!
Will this also work on Windows 8.1?
I am currently building using VS2012 and QT5.3 (64-bit). For building with
Qt5.3 I have to set:
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:STRING=C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows
Kits/8.1/Lib/winv6.3/um/x64
to pick up the OpenGL libs for QT. Will this conflict?

Regards
   Andrew


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:38 PM, <vtk-developers-request at vtk.org> wrote:

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> From: "Marcus D. Hanwell" <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com>
> To: VTK Developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:38:13 -0400
> Subject: [vtk-developers] Merging of new rendering branch to VTK
> Hi,
>
> We have been hard at work on new rendering code for VTK that makes use
> of OpenGL 2.1+, and moves to modernize our rendering code. We have
> also added new CMake capabilities to specify a rendering backend, this
> defaults to the existing rendering code but can be swapped out for the
> new. This has been in development for several months, and we intend to
> merge it to master tomorrow.
>
> If you want to build the new rendering modules they are mutually
> exclusive of the old rendering modules, as it was necessary to reuse
> the same class names etc. They depend upon GLEW and Eigen at this
> time, and I have not yet done the work to add either as third party
> modules (I will get to it). We will be adding several dashboards to
> test the new rendering backend next week.
>
> I intend to merge the main branch tomorrow, and will monitor the
> dashboard for issues over the weekend (using the existing OpenGL
> implementation). Next week we will add dashboard submissions testing
> the new rendering backend. We will then attempt to merge updates to
> this new rendering code more regularly. There are some pretty
> significant rendering improvements, and we will summarize these in the
> coming weeks too.
>
> Hopefully disruption to master will be minimal, please let me know if
> you think there is anything I missed. I am really excited to get some
> of this code to a wider group, and hope to begin showcasing some of
> the progress we have made.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>
>
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