[vtkusers] Mesa SetOffScreenRendering; no X

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "RH" == Randy Heiland <heiland at ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:

    RH> I've built VTK (4.0) on a Linux box with no xdm running.  I've
    RH> built it with Mesa and the OSMesa (offscreen) libs.  Can I
    RH> expect to have a script with
    RH> vtkMesaImageWindow/SetOffScreenRendering run OK?  I know, for
    RH> example, that I can run the Mesa 'osdemo' and it produces an
    RH> image file.

Well, this is not entirely unrelated but there was a wonderful post a
long while ago by Robert Belleman on how to do off screen rendering on
X using Xvfb.  Here it is:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2000-November/004850.html

Its really a pretty cool way of doing off screen rendering without
much heart ache.  Here is another one on how I used this idea to do
off screen rendering with scripted MayaVi.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=529819&forum_id=1824

Hope this is of some use.
prabhu