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AVS5 FAQ

General

  1. How do you set the Visual Type from within AVS?
  2. What UCD cell types are supported by AVS?
  3. How can I check on the progress of the tracer module?
  4. What is a recommended method to make shaded, ray-traced images of very large data sets?
  5. How do I animate the deformation of UCD data over time?
  6. How can I create an isosurface with fewer polygons than the isosurface module extracts?
  7. Is it possible to start AVS up with NO display in order to generate pictures without displaying anything on the console?
  8. How can I use AVS to import/export image formats other than the .x AVS image format?
  9. I am trying to visualize molecules and can't get good resolution on my images. The spheres look more like multiple square sided surface than a circle. How do I correct it?
  10. What is the firing order of modules?
  11. What video recording equipment has been used by various AVS users?
  12. How is the second argument to AVSinput_changed() used?
  13. How do I visualize data with holes in it?
  14. What is the recommended NTSC colormap for film recording?
  15. What's the difference between script -play and net_read?
  16. How do I get smooth lines out of the geometry viewer in PostScript format, and how do I get maximum resolution for my PostScript prints?
  17. I want to get screen captures of the geometry viewer but I do not want the red border.
  18. What type of field do I need to send the graph viewer?
  19. What is wrong if my module is crashing in its init function?
  20. Can I get the source code for an AVS 5 module?

Command Line Interpreter (CLI)

  1. How can I get AVS5 to execute CLI commands at startup?
  2. What does the geom_pick CLI command do?
  3. What does the net_map CLI command do?
  4. I want to duplicate the UI behavior but there are no documented ways for doing so.
  5. The panel CLI command does not respond to the geometry I am giving it.

Platform Specific

  1. When running AVS5.4 on my Sun I get an error; ld.so.1: avs: can't find libGL.so.1?
  2. What are the supported platforms for current release of AVS5?
  3. The geometry viewer causes AVS to crash on my SGI R10K machine?
  4. Why can't I link my modules on my SGI machine?
  5. On a DEC system I get 'License is invalid for this version of the product'.
  6. Are there any limits to the size of textures that Evans & Sutherland Freedom can use ?
  7. I can't mount the CD-ROM device as shown in the release notes or the booklet under OSF/1.
  8. I use avs_dbx under Linux and receive a Segmentation Fault error.