Re: [Visualpython-users] Mac users

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

I've seen a slightly later MacBook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce graphics 
which fully supports materials in VPython, and I've also seen an AirBook 
that does materials fine. I've seen a fairly recent rather macho desktop 
Mac with Radeon graphics which doesn't show materials at all. I don't 
know quite what to make of this, other than the possibility that the 
Apple drivers for Radeon graphics aren't quite right.

You said you weren't sure whether you were seeing materials corrrectly. 
In material_test.py do you see a map of the Earth wrapped around the 
sphere labeled "earth"? The table it sits on should look like blond wood.

Bruce Sherwood

Joe Heafner wrote:
> On May 31, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
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>> What is the graphics hardware on your Mac? What kind of Mac is it?
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> 2006 MacBook Pro with ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card.
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>> Bruce Sherwood
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>> Joe Heafner wrote:
>>> I've finally upgraded to Visual 5.1 and MacPython 2.6.2. I played 
>>> with  VIDLE and the only things about it I specifically noticed were 
>>> that it  doesn't have an IDLE icon (it has the generic Mac app icon 
>>> instead)  and there were two "Visual" entries under the Help menu in 
>>> the stock  Python 2.6.2 IDLE. I thought the latter might have 
>>> something to do  with the modified macosxSupport.py file I got from 
>>> the VPython website  (apparently it's not there now), so I copied 
>>> that file over to its  corresponding place in the Python 2.6.2 file 
>>> structure and that fixed  the problem in IDLE, but not in VIDLE. I'm 
>>> guessing the Visual menu  entry is already in VIDLE to begin with.
>>>
>>> Regarding Visual 5.1, I can now see something that resembles 
>>> textures  on objects, but I'm not sure they're rendering correctly.
>>>
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