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[Manta] Re: Re: Re: Manta vs RTRT controls


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  • From: Abe Stephens < >
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  • Subject: [Manta] Re: Re: Re: Manta vs RTRT controls
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:42:46 -0600
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Think of Manta as the ray tracing architecture and software engine-- (i.e. the code in Interface/ Core/ Model/ Engine/ which enables scalable interactive ray tracing on just about every platform out there). The engine is embedded into very different types of applications: a mesh viewer, the boeing777 tool, the csafe container visualization, the ballistics simulator, etc.

The bin/manta program is a simple GLX viewer that exposes some of the functionality of the engine, but more sophisticated visualization programs require different user interfaces with application specific logic, so they are implemented elsewhere and link to the Manta libraries for rendering.

For example the csafe demo is implemented using the wxManta python interface which is a python package that renders Manta generated frames in a GL window. Unlike bin/manta, wxManta is portable to non- X11 platforms like native Mac and Windows-- since the GUI is python based, it is very easy to prototype applications and implement different mouse/keyboard mappings. These applications are based on a Manta-project code template which provides a build environment for an application to link to the Manta engine libraries.

Abe

On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:18 PM, J. Davison de St. Germain wrote:

Hmmm... I'm not quite sure what you mean. Seems like "bin/manta" is "manta"? No?
(I'm using bin/manta.)

   - Dav

Abe Stephens wrote:
What application (bin/manta, something.py, etc.) are you using? Manta is the lower level engine, so this is sort of like asking: "Why does GL have different mouse mappings than DirectX?"

Abe


On Jul 28, 2008, at 5:28 PM, J. Davison de St. Germain wrote:

Hi All,

Are the mouse buttons mapped differently between Manta and RTRT? If so, is there a reason for tihs? Is there anyway to put Manta into RTRT compatibility mode?

      Thanks,
             Dav

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