mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov (Bill McKie) (06/05/91)
We have recently installed SunPHIGS 1.3. Apparently, there is still no support for hidden line / hidden surface removal in the cgm output workstation type (phigswstcgmout). E.g., as in SunPHIGS 1.1, we get the following message when trying to do a SET HLHSR MODE on the cgm output workstation. SunPHIGS error 111 in SET HLHSR MODE Ignoring function, the specified HLHSR mode is not available on the specified workstation. HLHSR mode continues to work ok on the phigswsttool workstation type in SunPHIGS 1.3 (although somewhat slowly with our cg6 hardware). We use cgm files as our basic image exchange media, including moving images to other machines, making movies out of frame sequences, and for making hardcopy of the images. It seems strange that we can't generate cgm images which are HLHSR-compatible with those that we can generate on console screens with SunPHIGS. Am I missing something and is there a way to generate cgm files from SunPHIGS with the expected hidden lines/surfaces properly handled? [We don't want to do screen dumps because the resolution is not as good as that for cgm, expecially for generating hardcopy.] Also, does anyone know if Sun will be supporting direct color PostScript output from SunPHIGS soon? We have color PostScript printers, and are currently forced to first create a cgm file from SunPHIGS, then translate cgm to PostScript, then print it. It would be useful to directly generate color PostScript from SunPHIGS. -Bill McKie NASA Ames Research Center mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov