Hi Fredrik,
Fredrik Andersson wrote:
>Have followed the future discussion and though maybe I should share my
>opinions too. I'm very happy with OpenSG. I think it has worked out great
>for us. We started using it a year and a half ago. We had some aspect
>problems that Gerrit helped us with. As he fixed them in a separate branch
>we have been somewhat stuck in 1.6. That hasn't been a big deal since the
>stuff we really would like to see won't appear until 2.0. And I hope that
>our aspect problems will be fixed in 2.0, won't they Gerrit? You haven't
>forgotten about us? ;)
>
>
Nope, we haven't. You're the power user that's pushing all the bugs in
the multi-thread code. We need more of you! ;)
>The major stuff we would like in 2.0 is VBOs and the improved occlusion
>culling.
>
VBOs are in, Occlusion Culling not yet. OC plays havoc with out-of-order
drawing and setting up a separate drawtree, so we'll have to look into
that more closely.
>We are also about to add tessellation support in our product and
>from what I've understood is that the current tessellator in OpenSG is not
>perfect and it does not seem to be high priority either. What is the plan
>here? Are there any plans to finish it?
>
I would love to, but I just don't have anybody with the expertise right
now. The basics are there, but the rational support is not done yet.
Akos can probably give you a better idea of what's involved in getting
it done.
>I can use another api for the
>tessellation so it's not a big issue. On that note...does anybody know of a
>good tessellator api? Commercial or free.
>
>
No clue, sorry.
>I totally agree with the build problems, it took a while to find out how to
>build OpenSG the first time. I also agree with that we need more example
>codes and demos. As for the documentation, I think it's ok as it is. It's
>much better to put developer efforts into developing. The source code and
>the mailing list can help if something is hard to understand. Although I
>think that the wiki is a good idea. We use trac ourselves and think it's
>great.
>
>
Good to hear.
>On the marketing front I think something should be done to make more people
>choose OpenSG. More announcements on the web and demos. I also think a
>"customer" list would be good. With links to all companies and organizations
>that use OpenSG. So potential new users can see that OpenSG is widely
>used...(as I think....and hope...it is ;)
>
>
I'm looking forward to seeing your info in the Gallery
(http://opensg.vrsource.org/trac/wiki/Gallery/Main)! :)
Yours
Dirk
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