[vtkusers] New to VTK (OpenGL2 Line Stipple)

[Ken Martin]

Please do create an issue. Thanks! - Ken

Ken Martin PhD
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean McBride [mailto:sean at rogue-research.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 2:53 PM
To: Ken Martin; Seun Odutola; vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] New to VTK (OpenGL2 Line Stipple)

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:03:33 -0400, Ken Martin said:

>Unfortunately LineStipple was removed in OpenGL version 3.1 about six
>years ago (along with LineWidth sort of) and there is no replacement in
>OpenGL. It has never been in OpenGL ES for Android/iOS to my knowledge.
>Currently in VTK it is not supported on the OpenGL2 backend. At some
>point we could try to add it back in fully or partially with our own
>implementation just not sure how high of a priority it is relative to
everything else.

Ken,

Thanks for the reply.  FWIW, for us, it's high priority because it's
something we use. :)  Not sure if we are an outlier there.  :)

Shall we create an issue in the bug tracker?

Cheers,

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