Tips

This page contains general-purpose instructions related to the exercises on computer animation.

Inventor image dumping

Coin-related issues

The following environment variables may be required to allow Coin to dump scene images using the OffscreenRender:

COIN_GLXGLUE_NO_PBUFFERS
COIN_GLXGLUE_NO_GLX13_PBUFFERS

When objects are not rendered correctly

The renderer typically starts the traversal of the scene at the root. If nothing is visible in the dumped image, make sure your scene contains a camera and a light (the viewer has his own).

QtCreator issues

Runtime environment variables

To customize the environment variables used to run the program, go to Projects/Run settings/Run environment/ as illustrated in the following image (from QtCreator version 2.5.2)