On MacOSX (Re: Croquet under linux problems)

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Sun Nov 10 16:32:50 UTC 2002


On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:

> The stencil buffer on the Pismo's Rage128 is only 8bits.  Does this 
> matter?

That's fine. 8 bits is the standard size on almost every board today.

[Ob3D] A stencil buffer is used to restrict drawing to only parts of the
screen. In Croquet, you see other worlds through portals. This works by
just rendering a world as if it was the only world on the screen, but
masking off everything that is not visible through the portal. With an 8
bit stencil buffer you could see a portal inside a portal inside a portal
up to a recursive depth of 256. Should be enough for starters.

See TPortal>>enter:depth: if you're interested ;-)

-- Bert




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