From: Tom Flynn (flynnt++at++cthulhu.engr.sgi.com)
Date: 08/27/2003 12:00:49
pbuffers should work in pf3.0.2
-tom
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Alexandre Meyer wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to render with Performer a scene in an off-screen buffer (PBuffer).
> Linux (mdk 9.0), Performer 3.0 but it didn't work on Performer 2.5 as well.
> GeForce 4 (Ti4600)
>
> I've already send an email about that 3 months ago but I still have the problem
> and I can not believe that nobody use the off-screen rendering on Linux!!
>
> Because it doesn't work, until now I've used a window to do this off-screen rendering
> but I would like a better solution!
>
>
> The Performer example /usr/share/Performer/src/pguide/libpf/C/pbuffer.c
> doesn't work and crash with this message :
> > PF Warning/Usage: pfWindow::open - window of type PFWIN_TYPE_PBUFFER -
> > required GLXFBConfig is NULL - set with ::setFBConfig.
> But setFBConfig is called!!
>
>
> So my other solution would be to open a PBuffer without Performer (it works) but
> then how can I say to Performer to render the scene into this PBuffer?
>
>
>
> If someone has an example of off-screen rendering on Linux, I would appreciate.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
> --
> Alexandre Meyer <A.Meyer++at++cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> University College London, Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Lab
> http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.meyer
>
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