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[mordrek]

Hi.
I just started looking into Xith3D and I'm very pleased so far  , although I had to do a quick ugly-hack to make my intel integrated graphics not crash all the time (ShapeAtomPeer fix)...

Anyway, I am fiddling around with animating transparency of some DynamicLabel and stumbled across something that might be a bug.

I have two DynamicLabels that are animated so that they fade in and then fade away, one label first and the other one starts fading in a bit after the first have started to get a nice effect.

The strange thing is that all letters in the first label, that also exists in the second label, obey the transparency values of the second label while the other letters obey the transparency of the first label as they should....

I haven't gotten around to create a simple test-case and my code uses a couple of animation classes so it's a bit much to post I guess.
Just wanted to know if anyone got some bells ringing.

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Hi mordrek. Welcome to Xith3D . I am peased to hear, that you like Xith3D.

DynamicLabels use shared shapes for the letters. This is nothing, that can be changed. Otherwise this class would lose its goal. Just use a regular Label and you're through. The prefix "Dynamic" doesn't aim towards the transparency attribute, but to the letters. So you won't get any negative performance, but actually possibly positive ones.

May I ask, what you changed in ShapeAtomPeer to make it work on your Intel hardware? Intel graphics cards always tended to cause problems. And maybe you found, what I've been searching for for a long time .

Marvin

[mordrek]

Ah, thanx. I had a gut feeling it was something like that

No new fix, sry :/
The fix was from a post on this forum from a year ago and involved setting useVBO to false in     bindGeometryComponent.  After some investigation I found the thread and apparently you suggested that one could achieve the same by setting some renderOption.

[Marvin Fröhlich]

After some investigation I found the thread and apparently you suggested that one could achieve the same by setting some renderOption.

Indeed. You can use the following line to do that.

Code:

canvas.getRenderOptions().setVBOsEnabled( false );

Looks like all intel cards don't support VBOs. This is pretty lame, since they should, if they report to support OpenGL 1.5 (IIRC) and especially the VBO related functions. But it is at least an info, that xith should generally disable VBOs for Intel hardware.

Marvin