William Sherman -Visualization (wsherman++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:36:45 -0600 (CST)
My question is: Will (or how well will) OpenGL++ handle multi-pipe
rendering? I liked Inventor, but ridiculous work-arounds were
required to do multi-pipe rendering because of how things were
handled internally -- something that was never fixed.
I fear the same will happen with OpenGL++, making it entirely
useless for my purposes, and I suspect a lot of other people too.
A recent conversation I had with someone on the OGL++ team didn't
help to allay my fears either. I was told that there were a lot
of things desireable for inclusion in OGL++ that might not make
it into the first release. The fear is that if the entire framework
of OGL++ is based around a flawed scheme (as with Inventor), then
it will remain flawed throughout it's lifetime (as with Inventor).
And then I'll be in the position of hoping that a product that
I was initially excited about will die a quick death so that
something better will come along and replace it (as with Inventor).
The problem with Inventor was that the scene-graph database was
used by the renderer to store state information about the rendering
process -- a major problem when more than one process is rendering
from the same scene-graph at the same time, out of shared memory.
Bill
BTW Angus, the header of your mail just has:
From: dorbie++at++multipass
which won't help people not emailing from SGI. Apparently something
happened to your sendmail config between November 25 and December 8.
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