Re: RayShade with XCode

[James W. W. <ja...@fr...>]

Roger Holmes <rog...@mi...> wrote:

>Ah, the problem was there but not quite as I remembered. It was getting
>a reference to the plug-in's bundle. If you are writing an
>application then
>this is very easy, but there does not seem to be an easy way for a
>plug-in.


I've seen this question asked and answered more than once on Apple 
mailing lists.  The standard answer is to use 
CFBundleGetBundleWithIdentifier.  Of course, your plug-in should have 
a unique bundle ID.


>>  1. Hardware-accelerated offscreen rendering would be helpful e.g. for
>>  high-resolution printing.  This could be done by tiling and pbuffer
>>  rendering.
>
>I always assumed it was accelerated, there is not much of a delay anyway
>considering the huge number of pixels being generated. Hi-res
>printing is
>not really that fast from Quartz either, but I agree a speed gain
>would be useful.


It's not just speed that motivates this wish.  On the Mac, the 
software OpenGL renderer is quite capable, but on Windows, it's in 
the stone age.  If I want to be able to use any OpenGL extensions, I 
need to avoid software rendering on Windows.

-- 
   James W. Walker, Innoventive Software LLC
   <http://www.frameforge3d.com/>