[vtk-developers] Rendering of vtkPolyData broken on Nvidia systems

[Aashish Chaudhary]

Hi Oleg,

Can you try to run apitrace (https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace) or
gDebugger (http://www.gremedy.com) on your program and post your logs
somewhere so that we access it?

Thanks,

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Oleg Koren <koren at curefab.com> wrote:
> Looks like VTK cannot render vtkPolyData correctly when Nvidia driver of
> version 295.73 or above is installed. If more than one actor is defined, all
> but the first one are rendered black.
>
> Image 1: correct rendering -
> http://image-upload.de/image/YsvZ2O/a7a73bbf38.png
> Image 2: wrong rendering -
> http://image-upload.de/image/2f28ij/b9c5ffb4d5.png
>
> The problem can be reliably reproduced:
>
> 1) Install Nvidia driver 295.73 or above (e.g. from CUDA 4.2
> http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads)
> 2) Compile and run the code snippet (s. further down)
>
> Some more information:
>
> 1) Hardware is not the issue. Confirmed on GeForce GTX 460, 550 Ti, 560 Ti,
> 580 and 680.
> 2) Driver 286.19 and below works ok.
> 3) Seems to depend on the number and ordering of actors. Replacing
> mapper_1->Modified(); with mapper->Modified(); gives correct results.
> 4) Direct rendering with OpenGL works ok, which is strongly suggesting a bug
> of VTK.
>
> I would consider this problem a major issue, as it currently doesn't allow
> to use VTK on a modern Nvidia system. Happy to offer my help with testing
> and fixing it.
>
> Probably similar to:
> http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/nVidia-driver-problems-td4739635.html
>
>
> int main(int argc, char** argv[]) {
>
>        vtkRenderer* renderer = vtkRenderer::New();
>        vtkRenderWindow* renderWindow = vtkRenderWindow::New();
>        renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
>
>        double origin[3] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0};
>        double point0[3] = {1.0, 0.0, 0.0};
>        double point1[3] = {1.0, 1.0, 0.0};
>        double point2[3] = {0.0, 1.0, 0.0};
>        double point3[3] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0};
>
>        double origin_1[3] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0};
>        double point0_1[3] = {0.0, 1.0, 0.0};
>        double point1_1[3] = {-1.0, 1.0, 0.0};
>        double point2_1[3] = {-1.0, 0.0, 0.0};
>        double point3_1[3] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0};
>
>        vtkPoints* points = vtkPoints::New();
>        points->InsertNextPoint(origin);
>        points->InsertNextPoint(point0);
>        points->InsertNextPoint(point1);
>        points->InsertNextPoint(point2);
>        points->InsertNextPoint(point3);
>
>        vtkPoints* points_1 = vtkPoints::New();
>        points_1->InsertNextPoint(origin_1);
>        points_1->InsertNextPoint(point0_1);
>        points_1->InsertNextPoint(point1_1);
>        points_1->InsertNextPoint(point2_1);
>        points_1->InsertNextPoint(point3_1);
>
>        vtkPolyLine* line = vtkPolyLine::New();
>        line->GetPointIds()->SetNumberOfIds(5);
>
>        vtkPolyLine* line_1 = vtkPolyLine::New();
>        line_1->GetPointIds()->SetNumberOfIds(5);
>
>        for(unsigned int i = 0; i< 5; i++) {
>                line->GetPointIds()->SetId(i, i);
>                line_1->GetPointIds()->SetId(i, i);
>        }
>
>        vtkCellArray* cellArray = vtkCellArray::New();
>        cellArray->InsertNextCell(line);
>
>        vtkCellArray* cellArray_1 = vtkCellArray::New();
>        cellArray_1->InsertNextCell(line_1);
>
>        vtkPolyData* polyData = vtkPolyData::New();
>        polyData->SetPoints(points);
>        polyData->SetLines(cellArray);
>
>        vtkPolyData* polyData_1 = vtkPolyData::New();
>        polyData_1->SetPoints(points_1);
>        polyData_1->SetLines(cellArray_1);
>
>        vtkPolyDataMapper* mapper = vtkPolyDataMapper::New();
>        mapper->SetInput(polyData);
>
>        vtkActor* actor = vtkActor::New();
>        actor->SetMapper(mapper);
>        actor->GetProperty()->SetColor(255,0,0);
>
>        vtkPolyDataMapper* mapper_1 = vtkPolyDataMapper::New();
>        mapper_1->SetInput(polyData_1);
>
>        vtkActor* actor_1 = vtkActor::New();
>        actor_1->SetMapper(mapper_1);
>        actor_1->GetProperty()->SetColor(255,255,0);
>
>        renderer->AddActor(actor);
>        renderer->AddActor(actor_1);
>
>        while(true) {
>                mapper_1->Modified();
>                renderWindow->Render();
>        }
>
>        return 0;
> }
>
>
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| Aashish Chaudhary
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