Re: disappearing objects

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 03:27:50 -0700


This just shouldn't be happening. Are you updating your objects in the
app process?

Apart from that it could be any old update. Does it happen single
process?

Cheers,Angus.

Gary Quinn wrote:
>
> A juicy problem.
>
> Onyx 2, 3 pipe, 10 processor, IRIX 6.5.3,
> same problem was on IRIX 6.4.
>
> In a performer app, on a 3 pipe IR system
> I have a number of objects moving through
> the scene which disappear when they pass
> pipe (and sometime channel) boundries on
> screen.
>
> I have noticed that there is sometimes a
> static copy of the object visible on a
> different pipe to the moving object.
> But there is only one set of the object's
> geometry in the scene.
>
> I use pfDCSTrans and pfDCSRot to modify
> a DCS which is above the appropriate
> object's geometry in the scene.
>
> I guess this is a multi processor
> problem, but I don't know where to start
> looking for the problem.
>
> Can anyone help please.
>
> Cheers,
> Gary.
>
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