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From: Michael Krause (michael.krause_at_rwth-aachen.de)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2014 - 02:40:13 CDT

Dear Mr. Stone,

thank you very much! The solution was indeed to compile FreeVR without
pthreads support.
Now I have a different problem. I have these lines in my .vmdsensors to
get the FreeVR tracker into vmd:

device freevrtracker freevrtracker://local/freevr
scale 0.25
offset -0.5 -3 -0.7
rot left 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 0

The "rot left" option was necessary to make the pointer in vmd look
forward. I can translate the tracker in all three directions and it
works accordingly in vmd. However, rotating the tracker around one of
its axes makes the pointer in vmd rotate around another axis. It seems
as though the rotation option in .vmdsensors worked to get the
translation of the tracker right but the rotation was unchanged.

Do you have an idea how to solve this?

Best wishes,
 Michael Krause

On 30.08.2014 00:18, John Stone wrote:
> Did you compile FreeVR using pthreads, or using the traditional
> multiple-process model? The VMD FreeVR code is currently designed
> for the multiple-process build of FreeVR. Which version of the VMD
> source code have you compiled against FreeVR? There have been
> a variety of bug fixes in various time periods, so it would be helpful
> to know which VMD version you're compiling also.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 03:43:46PM +0200, Michael Krause wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to set up VMD with FreeVR support. I can start vmd via
>> vmd -dispdev freevr
>> and get the main VMD window plus a FreeVR window with a demo scene. But
>> when I load up a molecule in VMD it won't show up in the FreeVR window,
>> i.e. the demo scene remains.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Michael Krause
>