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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Initial open of the 3d viewer which seems to alsways revert to opengl, so far.
which version are you testing?
in which os?

with revision 5909 if I close pcbnew when my 3d-viewer were in 
Raytracing, the next start will conserve Raytracing option and don't 
revert to opengl...

On 04/03/2016 23.27, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2016-03-04 22:13 GMT+01:00 easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Nick,
> > > I have a desing in similar complexity as that board and maybe a bit
> > > less, but it takes 17 seconds to load the board in the 3d view,
> > > whereas in the 3d viewer in 4.0.2 it takes 3 seconds for it to render
> > > in the 3d viewer.
> >
> > are you talking about Raytracing or OpenGL?
>
> Initial open of the 3d viewer which seems to alsways revert to opengl, so far.
>
> > If you are talking about Raytracing, it is normal that rendering will take
> > long... it is a feature for realistic screenshots, not for normal
> > inspection, or at least that is what I would have expected...
> > i.e. if you do realistic rendering in Blender you have to wait quite long
> > time to get the result to obtain a real 'realistic' view...
> >
> > I compared Mario OpenGL viewer (with cache) and the recent 6558 revision of
> > 3d-viewer and I get almost 1/10 rendering time in favor of Mario version...
> > (these results on a mobile win8-64b with a modest graphic card)
> >
> > Maurice
> >
> >
> > On 04/03/2016 19.23, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > > Hi Mario
> > >
> > > I just tried your branch the other day, but there the raytracing did
> > > not seem work properly at all. It was not rendering anything sometimes
> > > and when it did it was one of the very low res views. I don't remeber
> > > the revno, have you see this before? (I have not tried the latest of
> > > today yet, in case you already fixed it).
> > >
> > > I have a desing in similar complexity as that board and maybe a bit
> > > less, but it takes 17 seconds to load the board in the 3d view,
> > > whereas in the 3d viewer in 4.0.2 it takes 3 seconds for it to render
> > > in the 3d viewer.
> > >
> > > I have also noticed that there are not holes rendered in the solder
> > > paste in the opengl view.