Installing Dive 3.3x

Set Up | Dive Basics | Immersive Use | New Features

Dive 3.3x Set Up

DIVE 3.3x is the version of DIVE that is under development at the moment. As such there is a convoluted naming scheme for versions that have been frozen so that dependent applications can sure of a stable version. These are numbered 3.3x, 3.3x2, 3.3x3, 3.3x4 etc. The discussion below refers to 3.3x,3.3x5 or 3.3x6 (WINNT only, 20/1/2005) depending upon which platform you are using.

Setting up at UCL/CS for Solaris (Dive 3.3x)
Setting up at UCL/CS for SGI Desktop (Dive 3.3x5)
Setting up at UCL/CS for SGI CAVE (Dive 3.3x5)
Setting up your own Windows PC (Dive 3.3x6)
Setting up your own Linux PC (Dive 3.3x)

Set Up for Solaris

Set the environment variable $DIVEPATH to point to /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x/data For csh add this into your .uclcs-csh-options file (or equivalent):

setenv DIVEPATH /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x/data

The basic application is called vishnu . Add it's directory to your path name (again in csh):

set CS_XTRA_PATH = (/cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/appl)

Set the TK_LIBRARY variable to point to /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x/data/tcl_library/tk8.0 For csh add this into your .uclcs-csh-options file (or equivalent):

setenv TK_LIBRARY /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x/data/tcl_library/tk8.0

Set the TCL_LIBRARY variable to point to /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x/data/tcl_library/tcl8.0 For csh add this into your .uclcs-csh-options file (or equivalent):

setenv TCL_LIBRARY /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x/data/tcl_library/tcl8.0

Set Up for Desktop SGIs

Set the environment variable $DIVEPATH to point to /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x5/data For csh add this into your .uclcs-csh-options file (or equivalent):

setenv DIVEPATH /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x5/data

The basic application is called vishnu . Add it's directory to your path name (again in csh):

set CS_XTRA_PATH = (/cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x5/bin/mips-sgi-irix6.5)

Make sure that your TK_LIBRARY and TCL_LIBRARY variables are NOT set.

Set Up for Immersive SGIs

As above, except that

set CS_XTRA_PATH = (/cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/dive3.3x5/bin/mips-sgi-irix6.5cavelib/appl)

or equivalent should be used.

Set Up for WinNT

For windows you will need both of these:
- dive3.3x5-data.tgz
- dive3.3x5-winnt.tgz
You can also find these, and other versions, on Unix directory here:
```
  /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/
```
or direct from samba:
```
  \\smbhelp\cs-research\vr\dive\starship\dive
```
You can copy and un-tar/unzip the two packages to, say, c:\dev\dive\

For a quick test, you could do the following under a Windows shell:

cd c:\dev\dive\dive3.3x6\bin\winnt\appl
set DIVEPATH=c:\dev\dive\dive3.3x6\data
diva.exe -init vishnu_init.tcl -sin

You can look through example demos to find examples of .bat files to do similar things.

Set Up for Linux

For Linux you will need this file:
- dive3.3x.linux2.tar.gz
from
```
  /cs/research/vr/dive/starship/dive/
```
Unfortunately we can't help you much with Linux installations. The procedure for setting variables will be similar those above for Solaris and SGI, but the directories may be in different places.

Basics

Running It on SGI Desktop/Solaris/Linux

Type vishnu -sin
The "standard" DIVE application is called diva. However it is rarely, if ever run on its own. On UNIX you will note that in the application directory, there are several symbollic links to executables. E.G. vishnu links to diva. All this means is that when diva starts, it looks at the actual command typed, and then loads a different user interface. Typing vishnu is equivalent to typing diva -init vishnu_init.tcl -sin. The -sin runs DIVE in single-user mode.

Running It on the ReaCTor

Type diva -init spelunk_init.tcl
See the note above about how the command line is interpreted.

Running It on Windows

The symbollic link method mentioned above does not work, so instead there are example wrapper scripts for both DOS (double click on vishnu.bat in the application directory) and cygwin (go to the application directory and run vishnu.sh

Multi-user Demo

All machines must be on a single network (multicast TTL=1). Read the manual if you want further.
Run diveserver on one machine
Run vishnu on all participant machines

Immersive Use

See DIVE/Spelunk page

New Features

In 3.3x5
- Integrated tracker sub-system
- Ghost plugin "retired"
In 3.3x4
- VRPN plugin
- Ghost plugin
- C++ plugin support
- Tracker rate limiting
- Fixed record and replay
In 3.3x2
- Initial CAVElib and Performer port
In 3.3x
- Plugins
- New configure menu
- Edit box
- On-line ac3d<->dive object edit tranfer
- Colour editor
- Holders, lightweight groups
- Faster renderer :-)

Any queries about Dive should go to

Anthony Steed, A.Steed@cs.ucl.ac.uk