Re: [Jrman-user] current status

[John W. <joh...@gm...>]

Thanks Gerardo, I got it to work.

How does jrman compare with other open source rendering tools such as
Pixie or Aqsis in terms of functionality and performance?

Thanks

-John


On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:06:50 -0600, Gerardo horvilleur
<ma...@gm...> wrote:
> I assume that by NPE you mean "NullPointerException". Did you get that
> with the sample rib files that come with the jrman 0.3 distribution?
> Please note that some of the rib files in the "model" directory are
> data files that are included in a scene with the "ReadArchive" command
> and are not meant to be rendered by themselves (the README.TXT lists
> the files than can be rendered).
> 
> Current status:
> 
> We have been very busy this year so we weren't able to advance as fast
> as we would have liked to, but we
> managed to implement:
> 
> 1. Patch meshes
> 2. All bicubic basis
> 3. Reduced memory usage on models with a very large number of polygons.
> 4. Delayed ReadArchive
> 5. Better handling of parameters for many primitives
> 6. NURBS (not yet trimmed)
> 7. More fine tuning (and bug fixing!) in the occlusion culling code
> 
> All of the above is in the CVS version and we expect to release jrman
> 0.4 shortly (in a couple of weeks?)
> 
> We also did some work on the shading compiler, but there's still much
> to do before we can have something ready to release.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:01:32 -0800, John Wang <joh...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi folks:
> >
> >      What is the current status and directions of the jrman project?
> >
> >      I downloaded jrman 0.3 and couldn't get it to work. Keep getting
> > a NPE when parsing the model files. I added worldBeging and worldEnd
> > method calls to get the renderer field instantiated, but then I get an
> > "invalid corrdinate system" and nothing gets rendered.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -John
> > 
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