Re: [Flightgear-devel] Releases

[Fernando G. L. <fer...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 8:36 PM Julian Smith <ju...@op...> wrote:
> I tried with --compositor=Compositor/als and i'm seeing a very
> odd-looking affect where the aircraft appears behind all scenery, even
> distant mountains. A sort-of Godzilla affect!

This is caused by some effects not writing to the depth buffer
properly. I've changed the ALS pipeline to use a logarithmic z-buffer
but I haven't ported every Effect yet.

> I'm also seeing lots of these diagnostics:
>
>   443.38 /home/jules/flightgear/download_and_compile16c/install/simgear/include/simgear/debug/OsgIoCapture.hxx:37: [WARN]:OSG        Warning: detected OpenGL error 'invalid enumerant' after applying attribute TextureBuffer 0x555557402700
>

Yeah, I'm aware, no idea what's causing it though. I should revert to
an older commit to see where the bug got introduced.

> Incidentally http://wiki.flightgear.org/Compositor suggests
> '--compositor=Compositor/ALS/als', but this fails and the path isn't in
> current fgdata - should it be changed to say
> '--compositor=Compositor/als'?

Yes, I changed the path in the latest commit. I'll change the wiki
accordingly, thanks for the report.

Fernando