Hello Jan: Thank you for the help. I assume you are using : http:// cairographics.org/
Is there any way to release your Text Node source code? I am just curious if this will help me with the text problem. My direct email is potts<at>cfl<dot>rr<dot>com. Thank you again for the help! Take care Garrett On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Jan Ciger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Garrett Potts wrote: >> hello Jan: >> >> Hmmm, funny you mention it. The SUSE enterprise is running on Mac >> Hardware and so yes it is an ATI board. I also have tried te osgtext >> example. It runs but is very slow. I do get the same crash issues >> with osgviewer stats hud where the text is changing on every frame >> which simulates what I am doing. It could be a driver issue. The >> MAC OSX handles it very well and I don't remember having any problems >> on the windows on the MAC running the bootcamp ATI drivers. > > It is a long standing bad driver/OSG interaction. I have the same > issue > on my laptop with a FireGL T2 card and i586 since at least two years, > likely longer. If there is any osgText in the scene, the viewer > locks up > in a busy loop, pegging the CPU at 100% load. Usually it wakes up > after > several minutes, though, without a reboot. I believe that it has to do > with the way osgText is implemented - by rendering glyphs into many > small textures which need to be generated and uploaded to the GPU when > the node is first time rendered. The subsequent triggering of stats or > help is immediate for me, only the first one is always a problem. > > I have "solved" this issue by implementing my own text widget using > Cairo and Freetype. That way I have only a single quad with a single > texture, regardless of how many characters and with what font I > render. > > Regards, > > Jan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGxK0In11XseNj94gRAm6PAKDoMS/09jFYGSVRD0VlJqKjhCPbxQCfTTtD > ciK3JQjZVltmuCBVbjPc3Eg= > =Hy/D > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users- > openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
