[vtkusers] Depth peeling not used, but I can't see why.

Daniel Lea danlea at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 17:10:39 EDT 2010


Well that's what I was concerned about.  Setting it immediately after the
python call:

self._RenderWindow = vtk.vtkRenderWindow()
self._RenderWindow.SetAlphaBitPlanes(1)

It must be the python module that's the problem?  I'll see what I can do.


On 17 August 2010 21:58, Clinton Stimpson <clinton at elemtech.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 17, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Daniel Lea wrote:
>
> OK, now I've realised you can get some debug output with a standard build
> using the DebugOn() method in the right objects, I've determined that in my
> QVTKWidget, there are zero alpha bits, which is why depth peeling is not
> used (note that AlphaBitPlanes is definitely set).  I'm trying to find out
> how to resolve this, but perhaps someone has already come across this
> problem and sorted it out?
>
>
> Is AlphaBitPlanes being set before the window is initialized?
> I tried it on an example using QVTKWidget, and it worked fine for me.
>
> Clint
>
>
> On 17 August 2010 15:32, Daniel Lea <danlea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Please see below for details of the problem.  Having run the depth peeling
>> test using a separate build of vtk (same version as my Ubuntu package:
>> 5.2.1), the result is a failure (seems the front panel isn't translucent)
>> but it does say that depth peeling was used.  I'd rather not have to
>> configure a build for the application in order to debug vtk, so if anyone
>> has any ideas why depth peeling might not be used in the application, do get
>> in touch.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan.
>>
>>
>> On 16 August 2010 18:11, Francois Bertel <francois.bertel at kitware.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> The best way to ask a question is to post it on the vtkusers list. You
>>> will have a larger audience of people that can answer you:
>>>
>>> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>>>
>>> To answer your question: make sure you have VTKData and your VTK build
>>> directory points to VTKData, what is the result of:
>>> $ ctest -R TestTranslucentLUTDepthPeeling -V
>>>
>>> Does it say "Depth peeling was used", like here:
>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=62870189&build=694461
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Dan Lea <danlea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi François, I'm sure this isn't the best way to contact you directly,
>>> > but it's the only one I've found so far.
>>> >
>>> > I'm having trouble getting depth peeling to work on my linux system
>>> > (python vtk bindings in a Qt widget, dual nvidia quadro nvs 290, latest
>>> > nvidia drivers), despite what appears to be full suport for it.  Can
>>> you
>>> > think of any reason that the renderer would not use depth peeling,
>>> > having set everything correctly according to your documentation, and
>>> > given that
>>> > vtk.vtkOpenGLExtensionManager.ExtensionSupported("GL_VERSION_2_0")
>>> > returns 1 (as well as GL_ARB_texture_rectangle), and
>>> > glGetIntegerv(0x0D55) ("GL_ALPHA_BITS") returns 8?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance.  Dan.
>>> >
>>> > Here are the details of the window and renderer after a render:
>>> >
>>> > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x7f7e088ae550)
>>> >  Debug: Off
>>> >  Modified Time: 223311
>>> >  Reference Count: 1
>>> >  Registered Events:
>>> >    Registered Observers:
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x3e958a0)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x4039cd0
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 4
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4038d70)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x403cdb0
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 5
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x3e884a0)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x403fde0
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 6
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x403f740)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x4042e90
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 7
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4042c90)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x4045f50
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 8
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4045d50)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x4047d80
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 9
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4c7ce40)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x404b130
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 10
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4c8c290)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x404e140
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 11
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4c97ae0)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x4051150
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 12
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4ca60f0)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x4054160
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 13
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x4cb3160)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x4047520
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 14
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x40483c0)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x3e817e0
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 15
>>> >      vtkObserver (0x3f79810)
>>> >        Event: 2
>>> >        EventName: DeleteEvent
>>> >        Command: 0x3e61f50
>>> >        Priority: 0
>>> >        Tag: 3
>>> >  Erase: On
>>> >  Window Name: Visualization Toolkit - OpenGL
>>> >  Position: (0, 0)
>>> >  Size: (1097, 747)
>>> >  Mapped: 1
>>> >  OffScreenRendering: 0
>>> >  Double Buffered: 1
>>> >  DPI: 120
>>> >  TileScale: (1, 1)
>>> >  TileViewport: (0, 0, 1, 1)
>>> >  Borders: On
>>> >  IsPicking: Off
>>> >  Double Buffer: On
>>> >  Full Screen: Off
>>> >  Renderers:
>>> >    Debug: Off
>>> >    Modified Time: 6280
>>> >    Reference Count: 1
>>> >    Registered Events: (none)
>>> >    Number Of Items: 1
>>> >  Stereo Capable Window Requested: No
>>> >  Stereo Render: Off
>>> >  Point Smoothing: Off
>>> >  Line Smoothing: Off
>>> >  Polygon Smoothing: Off
>>> >  Anti Aliased Frames: 0
>>> >  Abort Render: 0
>>> >  Current Cursor: 0
>>> >  Desired Update Rate: 0.1
>>> >  Focal Depth Frames: 0
>>> >  In Abort Check: 0
>>> >  NeverRendered: 0
>>> >  Interactor: 0
>>> >  Motion Blur Frames: 0
>>> >  Swap Buffers: On
>>> >  Stereo Type: RedBlue
>>> >  Number of Layers: 1
>>> >  AccumulationBuffer Size 0
>>> >  AlphaBitPlanes: On
>>> >  AnaglyphColorSaturation: 0.65
>>> >  AnaglyphColorMask: 4 , 3
>>> >  PainterDeviceAdapter:
>>> >    Debug: Off
>>> >    Modified Time: 5916
>>> >    Reference Count: 1
>>> >    Registered Events: (none)
>>> >  MultiSamples: 0
>>> >  StencilCapable: False
>>> >  ReportGraphicErrors: Off
>>> >  ContextId: 0x38f3f88
>>> >  Color Map: 0
>>> >  Display Id: 0x37d26a0
>>> >  Next Window Id: 0
>>> >  Window Id: 100664256
>>> >
>>> > vtkOpenGLRenderer (0x7f7e088af540)
>>> >  Debug: Off
>>> >  Modified Time: 223310
>>> >  Reference Count: 2
>>> >  Registered Events: (none)
>>> >  Aspect: (1.46854, 1)
>>> >  PixelAspect: (1, 1)
>>> >  Background: (0, 0, 0)
>>> >  Background2: (0.2, 0.2, 0.2)
>>> >  GradientBackground: Off
>>> >  Viewport: (0, 0, 1, 1)
>>> >  Displaypoint: (0, 0, 0)
>>> >  Viewpoint: (0, 0, 0)
>>> >  Worldpoint: (0, 0, 0, 0)
>>> >  Pick Position X1 Y1: -1 -1
>>> >  Pick Position X2 Y2: -1 -1
>>> >  IsPicking boolean: 0
>>> >  Props:
>>> >    Debug: Off
>>> >    Modified Time: 226173
>>> >    Reference Count: 1
>>> >    Registered Events: (none)
>>> >    Number Of Items: 13
>>> >  PickResultProps:
>>> >  NULL
>>> >  Near Clipping Plane Tolerance: 0.001
>>> >  Ambient: (1, 1, 1)
>>> >  Backing Store: Off
>>> >  Display Point: (0, 0, 0)
>>> >  Lights:
>>> >    Debug: Off
>>> >    Modified Time: 25331
>>> >    Reference Count: 1
>>> >    Registered Events: (none)
>>> >    Number Of Items: 1
>>> >  Light Follow Camera: On
>>> >  View Point: (0, 0, 0)
>>> >  Two Sided Lighting: On
>>> >  Automatic Light Creation: On
>>> >  Layer = 0
>>> >  Interactive = On
>>> >  Allocated Render Time: 10
>>> >  Last Time To Render (Seconds): 0.075882
>>> >  TimeFactor: 131.784
>>> >  Erase: On
>>> >  Draw: On
>>> >  UseDepthPeeling: On
>>> >  OcclusionRation: 0.1
>>> >  MaximumNumberOfPeels: 4
>>> >  LastRenderingUsedDepthPeeling: Off
>>> >  Number Of Lights Bound: 1
>>> >  PickBuffer 0
>>> >  PickedId0
>>> >  NumPicked0
>>> >  PickedZ 0
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>>
>>
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