Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems with z-buffer

2008-12-30 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
also known as rm...@umd.edu From: James Turner To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 6:46:47 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems with z-buffer On 29 Dec 2008, at 08:40, Tim Moore wrote: > .4 meters seemed > suffi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems with z-buffer

2008-12-29 Thread George Patterson
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:46 AM, James Turner wrote: > > On 29 Dec 2008, at 08:40, Tim Moore wrote: > >> .4 meters seemed >> sufficient to me, but others don't agree, so perhaps we can settle >> on some value >> larger than .1. The near plane value is settable, both in the camera >> configuration

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems with z-buffer

2008-12-29 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, I tried this change on my MacBook Pro with ATI Radeon X1600. Setting .1 to znear increases a chance of flickering 3D clouds as Tim mentioned. Changing it to .4 reduces the flicker but not enough on my Mac. .7 will be sufficient to eliminate flicker in most of views but you cannot see ve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems with z-buffer

2008-12-29 Thread James Turner
On 29 Dec 2008, at 08:40, Tim Moore wrote: > .4 meters seemed > sufficient to me, but others don't agree, so perhaps we can settle > on some value > larger than .1. The near plane value is settable, both in the camera > configuration and as a "live" property in /sim/rendering/camera- > group/z

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems with z-buffer

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Moore
Alex Romosan wrote: > the latest commit to src/Main/CameraGroup.cxx changed the value of > zNear from .1 to .4 and this causes strange artifacts to show up when > panning around (like holes in the cockpit, etc.). the following patch > changes it back: > > --- src/Main/CameraGroup.cxx27 Dec 200

[Flightgear-devel] problems with z-buffer

2008-12-28 Thread Alex Romosan
the latest commit to src/Main/CameraGroup.cxx changed the value of zNear from .1 to .4 and this causes strange artifacts to show up when panning around (like holes in the cockpit, etc.). the following patch changes it back: --- src/Main/CameraGroup.cxx27 Dec 2008 14:35:33 - 1.9 +++ sr