[vtkusers] How create an offscreen render window in VTK ?? Please Help

Kevin H. Hobbs kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu
Thu Dec 1 11:26:13 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 11:35 +1000, Paul Cochrane wrote:
> Sylvain,
> 
> > OffScreenRendering will not work on Linux since it is only implemented
> > for vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow. Are you developing on Linux?
> I feel silly for disagreeing with someone who from kitware, but I'm
> developing on Linux and OffScreenRendering works fine.  One just has
> to make sure to compile vtk with the Mesa libraries and then
> everything goes swimmingly.
> 
> Paul
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Is Mesa itself required or do VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA and friends work?
I've had flaky tests when running without a display. 
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