Rhino BETA for Windows is using Direct3D as the primary GPU accelerated display technology. What is Direct3D? Direct3D is Microsoft’s technology for communicating with the GPU to draw 2D and 3D scenes. It is an alternative to OpenGL. [Direct3D Support | New in Rhino BETA] Why is Rhino…

A very welcome move! In the WIP I see the curve drawing quality is far better than on OpenGL. I remember there once was a Direct3D plugin for Rhino 4 (or 3?). It worked, as an experiment, quite well.

I notice from subsequent posts here that Systeminfo still lists OpenGL info instead of Direct3D info even when apparently Direct3D is selected. Shouldn’t it also show which mode is in operation and details about the Direct3D driver?

Presumably all the information required is there…the driver date and (DX 11)… That this move is largely about compatibility with ARM is interesting…illustration that there have got to be more developers working on making games with Direct3D then there are even USERS of OpenGL 3D CAD.

Well after 45 seconds the only glaring issue is that there is no feedback when dragging around the viewport boundaries. Also my shadow-only ground plane is black in the Rendered view mode, seems fine in Monochrome. Rhino 9 SR0 2025-7-1 (Rhino WIP, 9.0.25182.12305, Git hash:master @ 155a98b900cf48b9…

[image] AlW: I notice from subsequent posts here that Systeminfo still lists OpenGL info instead of Direct3D info even when apparently Direct3D is selected. Shouldn’t it also show which mode is in operation and details about the Direct3D driver? SystemInfo will post Direct3D details if you ar…

[image] JimCarruthers: That this move is largely about compatibility with ARM is interesting…illustration that there have got to be more developers working on making games with Direct3D then there are even USERS of OpenGL 3D CAD. ARM is definitely one reason. The OpenGL drivers on ARM complet…

[image] JimCarruthers: Well after 45 seconds the only glaring issue is that there is no feedback when dragging around the viewport boundaries. Thanks; I’m working on a fix for this now Dragging lines are not drawn : RH-88342 When using Direct3D, the drag lines when dragging the w…

Hallelujah! OpenGL deserved its retirement years ago! Blender dropping it for Vulkan and Rhino dropping it for D3D is just great news! Can’t wait to give it a go!

[image] Graphic Glitch with Direct3D Serengeti (Rhino WIP) i just did a restore on the nvidia settings to default and it seems to have gone away and is working normal there has to be something on there causing this Check this might help

I’m running Rhino on a virtual machine (VMWare Workstation on a Linux host). Anti-aliasing now works under Direct3D, it does not using OpenGL. Have not noticed any adverse affects other than the display-modes “Artistic” and “Pen” no longer properly working using Direct3D, they seem to not delete t…

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