Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear next not building...

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

> On 1 Aug 2019, at 12:13, wki...@gm... wrote:
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>> Right, we need to do some Real Work (TM) to support Canvas with osgText 3.6 and upwards, unfortunately.
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> will this also fix the problem with OSGText being white all the time? whatever the problem is, it has me and some others broken again because we cannot compile a working FG... i have no idea what their OS is, though...
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> and speaking of canvas, some developers have switched to canvas /because/ of the always white OSGText problem...

No, that’s a different problem again, sorry.

The Canvas breakage is at least fixable in a defined way, the OSGText one if more that the world is moving forwards, and our text-animation element has not. (Shaders required, can’t rely on OpenGL 1.1 built-in lighting)

Sorry,
James