On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: >> One question for the release managers: Do performance improvements such as >> these count as bug fixes or features? Should we try to get this into >> the 2.6.0 release, or wait until 2.8.0? > > For me, 3d clouds are currently mostly unusable. If this cures the > issue, I'd call it a fix. However, the feature-freeze is for preparing a > mostly stable (not necessarily perfect) codebase, so please decide yourself: > > Does it need extensive testing? Possibly. In particular, the Impostor changes will increase the memory requirements and may have some graphics-card specific behaviour I'm not aware of.
One way to address this might be to default the /sim/rendering/clouds3d-use-impostors to false, which will default to the previous behaviour (e.g. LoD nodes rather than Impostors), while retaining the geometry changes that are less controversial. > Does it interfere with other systems? No. > Does it have the potential to raise additional issues? There's a stability risk from the Impostors, as these are new OSG constructs we've not used before, and which AFAICT aren't commonly used elsewhere. > Does it have the potential to endanger the release schedule? No. The changes are self-contained and could be easily backed out at any point. > What do you think? I suggest we default the impostors to be switched off by default. That's a trivial change to line 72 of cloudfield.cxx. I don't know if that impacts the perf improvements that Matthias is seeing. I'm also happy to have this left until after the 2.6.0 release. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
