Hi Robert,
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at/14:18:05/, Robert Osfield wrote: Could you create a small example that prints the a set of different fonts at different sizes against quad the same hight as the font for reference. Running this against OSG-2.8.x and OSG-2.9.15+/svn/trunk will reveal a bit more what is happening w.r.t sizing.
Ok, I'll try to prepare something here. I'm also curious how the effect looks with different fonts.
>/ Even if the font size is correct now, one could still consider it a/ >/ regression./ I believe we've fixed bugs in osgText and the sizes should now be more realiable and consitent across different font types and means of rendering. Breaking code that relied upon the original bugs is a tricky area, to call fixing a bug a regression is not really appropriate.
Yes, I know that osgText is improved and a bug is fixed now, so "regression" probably wasn't the right word to use in the context of osg (I apologize). Just meant that the behaviour of an existing feature in the osg library is about to change in between released versions - and in the context of an application using it, this may lead to issues of osgText looking differently or (as in our case) also being unreadable - which potentially triggers loads of issues for existing applications. Some libraries/products try to avoid such issues - even at costs - but I know things like this can also cause huge hassle.
I guess you might be able come up with a workaround to apply the the txf plugin, perhaps as post process scaling.
I'd probably need to find someone knowing more about osg to do that. Currently I'm also trying to find out/estimate how many of our aircraft are affected. Not sure how we'll proceed eventually.
Do you have a date for the FlightGear release?
Just announced today: we're aiming to branch the next release in mid-July, with the final release planned for mid-August. Any osg 3.0 estimates? cheers, Thorsten _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
