#241 Wings3D GUI colors are too dark (+weird object highlighting)

[eNtity]

Wings3D colors are too dark and each created primitive starting from second one are highlighted red constantly.

Wings version: 1.3.0.1 (same problem with wings3d 1.1.1 and 1.2)
ESDL version: 1.0.1
Erlang version: R13B02-1 (13.2.2 in Gentoo Linux)

OS: Gentoo Linux / amd64
default/linux/amd64/10.0,
gcc-4.3.4,
glibc-2.10.1-r1,
kernel 2.6.31-r6
x86_64

nvidia-drivers: 190.42-r3
xorg-x11: 7.4.-r1

[eNtity]

Dark GUI and red objects

[Moritz Moeller]

I can confirm this, similar config:

Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 #4 SMP PREEMPT
glibc 2.11.2-r3
gcc version 4.4.4 (Gentoo 4.4.4-r2 p1.2, pie-0.4.5)
nvidia-drivers 195.36.31
xorg-x11 7.4-r1

[Moritz Moeller]

I forgot:

wings 1.3.1
erlang 14.2
esdl 1.0.1

[Anonymous]

Seems like a graphics driver issue.
Have you tried the Mesa drivers?

[Moritz Moeller]

No, what purpose what this serve, Mesa drivers are not hardware-accelerated.

Yes, I agree this is likely related to drivers. But it shows on all nVidia driver versions I tried lately and these same drivers work fine with Houdini, Maya and Nuke (and my KDE's compositing effects) which all make extensive use of OpenGl.

[eNtity]

From what I have gathered, issues seems to be the 64-bit Erlang / ESDL combination. With 32-bit erlang (and ESDL), problem does not exist with same hardware / drivers. Binary releases such as

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wings/files/wings/1.3.1/wings-1.3.1-linux.bzip2.run.gz

seem to work just fine.

[Moritz Moeller]

Nah, I'm on a source distro (gentoo). My Erlang and ESDL are built from source, 64 bit. My nVidia drivers are 64 bit.
In fact, I just checked, I don;t have a single 32 bit executable or library on this entire box yet the problem persists. :)

[eNtity]

Yes, I have similar config as well. Using 64-bit Erlang/ESDL causes these problems, NOT the 32-bit ones. Wings32 binary release comes with 32-bit version of Erlang and it works just fine in my Gentoo box via emulation.

[Anonymous]

64 bit could be the cause.
Wings was never specifically tested on a 64 bit machine mainly because erlang has no 64bit Windows release. Until now, it was assumed that wings would simply work if compiled on a linux 64 box, but there may be something preventing the build from displaying correctly.

[Anonymous]

Okay, we've tested on Arch 64
The build worked using the following, all 64bit:

erlang 14b
esdl 1.0.1
nvidia driver 260.19.12
X11 7.5

so maybe try a driver and X11 update to see if that works. But it is not to do with the 64 bit architecture at least.

optigon