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In article <BrqMDI.IxJ@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> mark@cita.toronto.edu writes:
>I posted this to comp.sys.sgi a couple weeks ago, but there were no replies,
>either from SGI folks or from knowledgeable Explorer users.  Now that this
>newsgroup is up and running, I'll repost it here.  Briefly stated, Explorer
>seems to misbehave when rendering on an Indigo/XS without the z-buffer.  Is
>this a limitation (if so, where is it documented?), or is it a bug (in other
>words, should Explorer be smart enough to recognize that there is no z-buffer
>and do its rendering differently)?

The Explorer Render module will run on machines without z-buffer graphics,
but will not properly z-buffer the picture.  No effort is made to compensate
by doing software z-buffering at a higher level than the GL.  I'm not sure
if this is documented in the release notes.

With the absence of the z-buffer, the priority of objects in the window will
be their drawing order and not the viewing distance order.  Most scenes will
look quite strange.

Roy Hashimoto
hashimoto@sgi.com