Changing renderer

[gjab13]

Hey. How can I force Director to use a especific renderer?
I?m doing this:
_movie.preferred3dRenderer = #openGL
getRendererServices().renderer = #openGL
But this only changes preferred3dRenderer and not the active3dRenderer.
The active3dRenderer is always #directX7_0.

[hondo3000]

i would love to be able to force the shockwave plugIn to use "#auto", because
if it is not set to #auto in the rightclick user menu, you are not able to
change it at all. Not possible in shockwave and not possible if you use a
projector.

i don't know a trick to change the "preferred renderer" if the user set it the
shockwave plugIn to something else then "obey content settings", if there is a
way please tell it to me.

only thing you can do, make a small "shockwave3D"-settigs site where the user
can go to set up the shockwave plugIn to the correct settings.

but there was a way to change the registry on windows when you launch a
projector, its in this forum but i lost the thread... if you find it, it would
be great if you add it to this thread.

regards!

[tedalde2]

You are correct, the way to set the renderer is getRendererServices().renderer
= #someRenderer. However, you need to be sure #someRenderer is a member of
getRendererServices().rendererDeviceList (watch the spelling on that one, I
always mis-type it ;)) Sometimes, #openGL isn't available on Windows PCs, for
example when a system has two monitors running.