2011/12/12 Mathias Fröhlich <mathias.froehl...@gmx.net>: > > > As an answer to the previous mail, point sprites may help here too. You will > get the bilboard effect for free. > > We have a queriable limit in the maximum supported point size which nobody > guarantees to be really high. But in reality point sprites can get up to > render buffer size for almost any GPU I know. The open source radeon driver > does glClear by drawing a screen sized point sprite...
When using the binary fglrx driver there are known problems with point sprites (not sure if anybody ever figured out the real cause) so if we switch to point sprites we should be careful to keep the current method as an alternative for the benefit of fglrx users. -- Csaba/Jester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Systems Optimization Self Assessment Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. Drive out cost and improve service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization Self Assessment. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51450054/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
