3D Render Destination "Scene Window" Behavior

[jpeters]

Strange, that didn't seem to post correctly.

Anyway, we added hardware rendering support for the 3d picture control (on Windows) in 8.6.  I don't know what version of LabVIEW you are using, but if it is 8.6 or later and you are still seeing big differences between the window and the 3d picture control R&D should probably have a look see.

Jeff Peters

LabVIEW R&D

[TurboPhil]

Thanks for the input, Jeff.

To be honest, I didn't see much of a difference in performance; I was mostly just going by the NI documentation for the 3D picture methods/utilities/properties that all seemed to indicate that only the separate SceneWindow uses hardware acceleration.

So, I take it by your comment that that assumption (and thus, all the documentation) is not correct for LabVIEW versions 8.6 and beyond? If so, then that's good for me. But I would recommend scrubbing through the documentation to avoid this question coming up again....

Thanks.

[jpeters]

This was reported to R&D (#295477) for further investigation. Thanks for letting us know.

Jeff Peters
LabVIEW R&D

[Embedded_Desi]

Was there ever an outcome on this issue?  I'm using LabVIEW 2011 for Mac (also tried 2012 but no difference) and "scene window" is significantly faster (hardware acceleration) than 3D picture control. 

My problem is that I can't have a separate window popup for hardware acceleration enabled "scene-window", and I don't know how to embedd that window in my LabVIEW application front-panel.  Any ideas or suggestions? I have searched on this forum as well on LAVA but found very little on this topic and nothing useful. I have spent the past 3 days trying to figure this out without any success - please help with anything you can think of!

(or at least if someone can instruct me on how to check on outcome of "R&D issue #295477" that jpeters mentions in his post here.)

[jpeters]

I misquoted the CAR ID.  It is 294577 not 295477.  As of today it hasn't been addressed by our documentation team.

Jeff Peters

LabVIEW R & D