Hi Andy,
This most probably sounds to me as "it is working as expected".
Raytracing rendering method is consider to be an "offline rendering" (means, it
will take a lot and you can go offline for a coffee and back after a while)
However for simple scenes I am not expecting such a long time.
Depending on the options I may expect just a few seconds for some scenes.
My guesses, for developers to investigate are:
- Make sure KiCad on MacOS is build with OpenMP enabled and it is working. This
is very important to make rendering to work in parallel.
- Since Macs have that "Retina" thing.. could that be the screen resolution is
actually 4x (? I dont know how it works..) what it is displaying (comparing to
a regular display)?
Mario Luzeiro
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From: Kicad-developers
<kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net> on behalf of
Andy Peters <de...@latke.net>
Sent: 27 February 2018 23:21
To: KiCad Developers
Subject: [Kicad-developers] 3D Viewer "Render current view using Raytracing"
is ludicrously slow
This is probably way low on the list of priorities …
On a 2017 MacBook Pro (Retina, touch bar, 16 GB RAM, with the Radeon 555
graphics), the "Render current view using Raytracing" is ludicrously slow, as
in it takes about a minute to render a “simple” design (front panel thing with
LEDs and buttons).
I admit that I didn’t know what that blue cube in the 3D viewer’s toolbar was
for. I guess it’s really a tesseract.
Anyway, it re-draws the display and then when you zoom or pan it reverts back
to the original rendering (which is quite fast).
-a
Application: kicad
Version: (5.0.0-rc2-dev-26-g0d794b2), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.4.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.61.0
Curl: 7.43.0
Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
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