Martin Spott writes: > This was my initial thought when I bought an SGI Octane with bells 'n > whistles. But I was proven to be wrong. Erik's O2 is definitely faster with > FlightGear even though the O2's graphics subsystem is much slower. This is > hardly texture-related, his machine simply has the faster CPU. > Unfortunately the tax authorities prevented me from buying the desired CPU > upgrade for the Octane .... > > > It would be interesting to do some tests in wireframe mode on a low spec > > machine and see how it performs? > > Is there a wireframe-mode in FlightGear ? I thought even the shaded terrain > display has been removed,
The wireframe mode got broke somewhere along the way, but I fixed it recently. I haven't tried lately to see if it's broke again, but last I checked it did work. It can be useful for debugging your models/terrain because it will show you the exact triangle layout ... Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
