[vtkusers] nightly build (8.1.0?) where did vtkVolumeTextureMapper3D go

[Aashish Chaudhary]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Andras Lasso <lasso at queensu.ca> wrote:

> If there are errors in the current GPU volume mapper then they certainly
> have to be fixed, but I would rather have only one GPU volume mapper in
> VTK, which works well.


that was the core idea.. we had too many mappers and it was hard to
maintain / update and there was lot of overlap in features. we should fix
the issues instead.

- aashish


> If there were different variants then developers attention might be
> divided between them and developers may be distracted by users asking help
> for unsupported classes.
>
> Until error in the current GPU volume mapper is fixed, you can build the
> old mapper as part of your application or keep using an earlier VTK version.
>
> Andras
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vtkusers <vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org> On Behalf Of gohlinchia
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 2:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] nightly build (8.1.0?) where did
> vtkVolumeTextureMapper3D go
>
> Hi Aashish,
>
> I'm not sure what specific reason(s) that Brian Davis would want the
> vtkVolumeTextureMapper3D back; we want it back too.
>
> For our case, it is because the new CPU/GPU ray cast volume mapper is not
> working correctly when depth peeling is enabled (for multiple volumes) and
> also when rendering the scene in stereo (left and right images are the
> same). I think it is good to have a backup when the only volume mapper
> doesn't work.
>
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> Thanks.
>
>
>
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