Full Image 3.7g for testing

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Sep 4 09:31:33 UTC 2004


Hi Boris,

There have been already a number of fixes for B3D for 3.8a (as
part of the squeakland release).

can you submit this fix with the [BUG][FIX][Ballon3D] header? Then
the maintainer of the package can pick it up.

    Marcus

Am 31.08.2004 um 16:09 schrieb Boris Gaertner:

> This is a test report for the 3.7 gamma full image
> (latest update: #5987, time stamp of the image in the zip-file:
> 27/08/04 20:55)
> used VM: Squeak 3.6.2 / Tea 1.9 VM (release) from
>                 Nov 12 2003
>
> Balloon3D comes with a new problem: When you use
> hardware acceleration, you have clipping planes that differ
> from the ones that you have without hardware accelaration.
>
> To see this effect, do this:
>> From the world menu, select:
>   -> new morph
>      -> from alphabetical list
>         -> B3DSceneExplorerMorph
> You see the well-known rotating cube. (pic1.png)
> When you switch to hardware acceleration, colors do not change
> (in a previous version they changed!)
> but you have a clipping box that cuts into the colored cube
> (as a result you can look into the rotating cube, which is also
> a nice feature.) (pic2.png)
>
> -----------------------------
> In the Balloon3D demo, some examples come without color:
>   B3DDemoSurfaces example2
>   Db3DemoSurfaces example3
> and others. This is a well-known problem, that was reported
> and fixed earlier (but never on SqueakMap. I think Andreas
> put the demo on SqueakMap, and certainly I do not have the
> password and cannot change it.)
> The attached fix solves the problem. (It does not add a
> hardware acceleration button tot the window - hardware
> acceleration occasionally chrases on my PC with
> Windows 98.)
>
> <pic2.png><pic1.png><B3DTutorialFix.2.zip>




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