Hi All, A number of effects files use .dds textures, leading to error messages on the console.
IIRC in the last release, we suppressed these error messages for the release, and I think we need to do something for for 2.8.0 as well. Of particular concern is terrain-default.eff which uses Textures.high/Terrain/snow3.dds. I can see a number of options to resolve this (and I'm sure there are more): 0) Suppress the warnings again. 1) The same texture is available as a .png file, so one option would be to replace the .dds with .png. 2) Change terrain-default.eff to use the PNG, and then create a derived dds effect file (terrain-default-dds) using the DDS. This would require a cascading set of duplicated effects files, as terrain-default is inherited by ~ 10 other effects. 3) Add a "/sim/rendering/use-dds" property, drop the file extensions from the effects files (and possibly materials.xml entries?) and add some logic to check this flag and search for .dds extensions, and failing that .png for images. I suspect that option 3 is the best long-term solution, but we're too close to the code-freeze to make that change right now. Should we therefore suppress the warning messages again? -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
