[vtk-developers] DirectX11

[Andras Lasso]

Having VTK on HoloLens (and all the upcoming AR and VR headsets that use the Windows Holographic platform) would be awesome. We are working on several HoloLens-based projects and it would save us a lot of development time if we could run our VTK-based tools directly on the device.

Could you provide a bit more details about what/how to build?

Thank you,
Andras

From: vtk-developers [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of Ken Martin
Sent: October 28, 2016 14:02
To: clinton at elemtech.com
Cc: vtk-developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] DirectX11

Yeh, Angle is typically what is used for WebGl on windows IIRC. So it is another option, in my case the angle support for hololens was not where/how I wanted it to be. But in the more general case the ES3 path though Angle is an option, some window/event issues to handle but probably not too bad and ES3 is a fairly decent API that we already support in OpenGL2.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:50 PM, <clinton at elemtech.com<mailto:clinton at elemtech.com>> wrote:
Neat.  I would probably use that too.

I'm curious, has ANGLE been considered?  I have wondered in the past about using that to use Direct3D on Windows instead of OpenGL.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle

Clint

----- On Oct 28, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com<mailto:ken.martin at kitware.com>> wrote:

FYI. For a potential hololens app I needed to take a look at how hard it would be to add a DirectX11 backend to VTK. I progressed far enough to feel comfortable we could get 70% or so of the core functionality working with a few weeks of effort. (I got far enough that the dragon was rendering with lighting, material properties, interactions, resizing, VBO/IBO/Shaders/Programs etc.). So should you ever have a customer/project that requires DX11 and can cover another three weeks of work it is technically an option. My gitlab has the WIP topic.

Thanks
Ken


--
Ken Martin PhD
Chairman & CFO
Kitware Inc.
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park NY 12065
518 371 3971<tel:518%20371%203971>
This communication, including all attachments, contains confidential and legally privileged information, and it is intended only for the use of the addressee.  Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this communication in error please notify us immediately and destroy the original message.  Thank you.

_______________________________________________
Powered by www.kitware.com<http://www.kitware.com>

Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html

Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=vtk-developers

Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/vtk-developers



--
Ken Martin PhD
Chairman & CFO
Kitware Inc.
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park NY 12065
518 371 3971

This communication, including all attachments, contains confidential and legally privileged information, and it is intended only for the use of the addressee.  Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this communication in error please notify us immediately and destroy the original message.  Thank you.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/attachments/20161028/cfbfc96f/attachment-0001.html>