Re: [Celestia-developers] 1.6.0 Release

[Christophe C. <elc...@ya...>]

It works perfectly on my config!
If no problem under windows/linux, could that be committed for 1.6? :)


Le 17 mars 09 à 22:16, Chris Laurel a écrit :

> Just realized that this patch overlaps another one... You'll also  
> need a replacement render.h (attached)
>
> --Chris
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Chris Laurel <cl...@gm...>  
> wrote:
> Here's a patch for you to try... It seems to work well on my system.  
> Replace the files glext.h and render.cpp with the attached versions.
>
> --Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Christophe Campos <elc...@ya... 
> > wrote:
> Is that simple enough for 1.6? :)
>
> Anyway I guess a slider like control can be interesting for later  
> version...
>
>
> Le 17 mars 09 à 20:21, Chris Laurel a écrit :
>
>> Possibly. Though we need to think carefully about what is being  
>> adjusted... I'm not opposed to letting the user adjust the  
>> appearance of stars according to his or her taste, but  we need to  
>> consider what is going on physically in the display device and the  
>> simulated detector.
>>
>> I may have found a very simple way to make point stars work OK with  
>> antialiasing. It looks like it's possible to disable antialiasing  
>> for a particular sequence of rendering commands. I had thought that  
>> once antialiasing was enabled, *everything* needed to be drawn with  
>> AA.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Christophe Campos <elc...@ya... 
>> > wrote:
>> Or, remember this idea of a unified star style with a slider to go  
>> from point to scaled? Perhaps it could be the ultimate solution...
>>
>>
>> Le 17 mars 09 à 20:05, Chris Laurel a écrit :
>>
>>> ...It would be more productive to provide some sort of sharpness  
>>> control to allow you to adjust 'fuzzy points' mode to your liking.
>>>
>>> --Chris
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Christophe Campos <elc...@ya... 
>>> > wrote:
>>> From a graphical point of view, nothing get close to the crisp/ 
>>> neat point rendering without AA. So yes, perso it was my default  
>>> rendition at the time I didn't had AA posibilities. Today it's  
>>> still my default but...
>>> The Fuzzy points are kind of blurry and the Scaled disks are  
>>> adapted to the astronomy side but as far as I know useless for a  
>>> "natural rendition"...
>>>
>>> Do you mean you plan to drop point style completely?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 17 mars 09 à 18:04, Chris Laurel a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I think so... There's a lot of work involved in figuring out a  
>>>> way to render points that would work on the whole range of  
>>>> antialiasing implementations (supersampling, multisampling,  
>>>> combination modes, NVIDIA's virtual coverage antialiasing...) In  
>>>> fact, I'm starting to think that rendering stars as one pixel  
>>>> points is an obsolete technique on AA-capable hardware. Do you  
>>>> regularly use point stars yourself?
>>>>
>>>> --Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Christophe Campos <elc...@ya... 
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> Chris, fixing the problem with AA versus point style stars is for  
>>>> post
>>>> 1.6?
>>>>
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