object render order - problems w/ opaque too

[Lisa Sobierajski Avila]

<x-flowed>Hello Bryan,

This sounds like it could be a camera clipping range problem - what version 
of VTK are you using? (There was a problem for a few days several weeks or 
so ago...) If you are using tcl you can test if this is the problem - after 
zooming do a "ren1 ResetCameraClippingRange" (assuming ren1 is the name of 
your vtkRenderer). If the object magically reappears, then this is your 
problem and a more recent version of VTK will likely fix it.

Lisa

At 12:17 PM 9/15/99 -0500, Bryan VanDeVen wrote:
>I appreciate the many responses I got to this inguiry!  But I was not
>quite clear on one point.  I am experiencing problems whether the basin
>actor is transparent or opaque.   The only reason I made it transparent
>was so that the signal excess isosurface would always be visible even when
>it was incorrectly drawn behind the basin - otherwise parts of the
>isosurface can become completely obscured.
>
>The easiest descrition is that when the app starts it is looking straight
>down from above, the isosurface is visible completely in front (on
>top of) of the basin bathymery actor.  Now, using the interactor to zoom
>straight out with _no_ rotations, the isosurface will become completely
>obscured very quickly. Subsequent rotation to a view from the side, and
>the isosurface will magically reappear (parts at a time) above the basin.
>I have no explanation for this....
>
>--
>Bryan Van de Ven
>Applied Research Labs
>University of Texas, Austin
>
>
>
>
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