UsdImagingGLEngine why GL in the name?

Open sukoy opened this issue 11 months ago • 4 comments

UsdImagingGLEngine seems to be the entry point to render a usd scene, it can load and render with different renderer delegates if so why GL in the name? is it a typo from the past?

Thanks

Jan 23 '25 08:01 sukoy

Is it only a reference to a graphic library or is it an explicitly reference to opengl? I'm curious, that's it

Jan 23 '25 11:01 sukoy

Filed as internal issue #USD-10589

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Jan 23 '25 20:01 jesschimein

It's not a typo, but legacy. Originally it was an OpenGL imaging engine, but that got abstracted under the Hgi library. It's on our list of things to do to rename the class.

Jan 24 '25 16:01 meshula

It still has dependencies on glf, so I think it does rely on an OpenGL context being present?

Feb 11 '25 04:02 asluk