distributed rendering

[Andreas Zehender]

Hi!

On Sunday, 14. September 2003 00:19, Christoph Fabianek wrote:
> I have written a while ago to the list about implementing a distributed
> render mode. Now I have the first working version and would like to ask for
> some advice - it's my first code in C++ and I'm also not very familiar with
> CVS... Ok, here we go:
>
> Attached is the output of 'cvs diff -l > ~/dist_render.patch' in
> 'kdegraphics/kpovmodeler' - is this the correct way of submitting a patch?

Your .cvsrc file should look as follows:
-z9
diff -u
update -dP
checkout -P

Then cvs diff > filename is enough.

> What do you think about the patch itself? I'm sure some things are not
> implemented optimally... (a screenshot of the 'Render Modes' dialog is
> available at  http://fsmat.at/~cfabiane/tmp/render_modes.png )

Your patch looks ok at first sight.
Sorry, I was too frustrated after work to look at your patch in deep.

> And the biggest problem I have is with displaying the distributed rendered
> image in the 'Render Window'. Currently the image is rendered with nspovray
> which writes the composed result to stdout via 'cat result.tga'. The
> problem I encounter is that it shows the image bottom up.

Does that mean the image is not displayed while rendering? And that means no 
progress information is shown?

Greetings, Andreas

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