Re: [Plib-users] is a GL context required?

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

Cameron Lerch wrote:
> I'd like to use ssg in a situation that does not create a GL context.
> Currently, I manipulate the scene graph, doing hot & isect testing, but
> I never cull and draw. This is all without ever calling ssgInit(). I'm
> setting each leaf state up using ssgSetAppStateCallback() w/defaults,
> but am not loading the textures. When I do an isect test, I appear to
> be getting the wrong leafs (or at least, the wrong states for the leafs)
> back. I'm wondering if what I'm doing is even possible?

Well, if it *is* possible, it's not by design...I suppose if you are
careful enough to avoid having SSG do anything OpenGL-related, you might
get away with it.

You know you can have a rendering context without opening a window - right?

Create a 1x1 pixel p-buffer or something.

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