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From: "Melchior FRANZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 4:27 PM
Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Re: crease patch and Dlists - maybe answer VBOs?


> * Martin Spott -- Friday 15 October 2004 13:29:
> > Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > > I see no problem if fgfs/sg/plib tries to detect certain
> > > capabilities and uses them if available, [...]
> >
> > Would this mean PLIB behaving as sort of an adaptive layer between FG
> > and X11 or how would this work ?
>
> It would mean, that "we" could do with VBOs what we are doing with other
> extensions already since a while: ask at runtime if they are available
> and act accordingly. Actually, I'm not really interested in implementation
> details. I just doubt that it is a good idea to let legacy XFree-4.3
> decide what fgfs supports or not. Time doesn't stand still. With
extensions
> specific to a certain producer (e.g. nvidia extensions) that's of course
> a different matter. These would make me a bit nervous.  :-)

VBOs are supported by ATIs and Nvidias in latest drivers so don't worry
about it
Long time ago I asked list about transitions my shaders from nvidia to ati.
flightgear maintainers said that we don't need this
so if you choose three years old visual - it your decision



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