Re: [Plib-devel] GL_COLOR_MATERIAL pitfall

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Dave McClurg wrote:

> i saw something in Kilgard's "common opengl pitfalls" page that might be
> relevant to SSG.
> see "#14. Careful Enabling Color Material" at
> 
> http://www.opengl.org/Coding/KilgardTechniques/oglpitfall/oglpitfall.html
> 
> would this explain any of the problems encounted in ppe and flightgear?

It's certainly something *like* that.

In the course of discussions on OpenGL-Gamedev, it became aparrent
that:

1) No two Guru's could agree on what *should* happen under every
   circumstance.

2) As a consequence of (1), quite a few OpenGL implementations
   actually get it wrong.


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