On Nov 29, 2007 4:35 AM, Anders Gidenstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Georg Vollnhals wrote:
>
> > 4. 3D clouds crash
> > Selecting 3D clouds in the rendering menu crashes FlightGear after
> > closing the window. When used as a startup parameter FlightGear does not
> > run.
> > Do I remember right that this is an older problem and depending on the
> > video-driver/card of the user system???
>
> Hi,
>
> Check that cloud resolution and cloud cache size isn't 0 in the rendering
> dialogue. These are stored in autosave.xml and FG/OSG sets one of them to
> zero - causing FG/plib to crash when enabling 3d clouds unless one adjusts
> the parameter first.
>

Is there not a way to sanity check the cloud cache size in the plib
version before going ahead and segfaulting? Like notice that it's 0
and set it to the lowest valid value. It seems that this would be a
simple fix, and that there's really no excuse not to do it. Unless, of
course, there is a real excuse...

-- 
Hans Fugal
Fugal Computing

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