From: Cesar Luis Avila (cavila_at_fbqf.unt.edu.ar)
Date: Sun May 27 2007 - 16:05:03 CDT

I read on the documentation that taychon does not support clipping
planes, which is a very important feature for me in this case.
Is there a way in linux to create such a buffer through ssh? ssh -X is
not a solution since it uses the rendering capabilities of the local
machine.
Regards
Cesar

Axel Kohlmeyer escribió:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Cesar Luis Avila wrote:
>
>
> cesar,
>
> CLA> I would like to render a picture in a remote server with vmd using GLSL
> CLA> capabilities. I connect to the server using ssh, and launch the script using
> CLA>
> CLA> vmd -dispdev text < renderpicture.tcl > logfile
> CLA>
> CLA> Within the script I have a line
> CLA> display rendermode GLSL
> CLA> render snapshot picture.tga
>
> to render a snapshot, you have to have a buffer to take it from.
> if you run in textmode, this buffer does not exist.
>
> you can try, e.g., the TachyonInternal renderer instead.
> there will be some differences and some unsupported
> features, however, tachyon is usually (for obvious reasons)
> closest to the snapshot output.
>
> cheers,
> axel.
>
> CLA>
> CLA> but in the log file I see
> CLA> ERROR) Illegal rendering mode: GLSL
> CLA> Info) Rendering current scene to 'picture.tga' ...
> CLA> Info) Rendering complete.
> CLA>
> CLA> And the picture file is empty.
> CLA>
> CLA> Since there is no display device it sounds logical that there is no
> CLA> picture to render. Is there a way to overcome this?
> CLA>
>
>