Usage of Fog

[drwr]

Perhaps it's worth trying a build without this option set, to see if it makes a difference.

[rdb]

OK, I made a build without SSE2 support. Wezu, can you try it as soon as possible, and let me know if it works? Be sure to uninstall all other Panda3D builds first.

[wezu]

That did it. Panda works now. The original fog+shadows issue is still there and it can still be 'fixed' removing a shine or normal texture.

The output is a bit different then it used to be:

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DirectStart: Starting the game.
Known pipe types:
  wglGraphicsPipe
(all display modules loaded.)
:gobj(error): created-shader: (128) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "float4"
 to "float3"
:gobj(error): created-shader: (22) : error C5102: output semantic attribute "TEX
COORD" has too big of a numeric index (8)
:gobj(error): Shader encountered an error.
:gobj(error): created-shader: (128) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "float4"
 to "float3"
:gobj(error): created-shader: (22) : error C5102: output semantic attribute "TEX
COORD" has too big of a numeric index (8)
:gobj(error): created-shader: (22) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resourc
e to bind parameter "l_hpos"


...apart from that all works fine

[rdb]

OK. So the problem is that either you didn't set basic-shaders-only to #f, or that your GPU is simply not capable of handling that amount of goodness.

Glad the SSE2 thing fixed it, I guess I'll just be building the public Windows builds without SSE2 support enabled by default.

[wezu]

basic-shaders-only are #f It must be my GPU.

Since removing some texture(stages) makes things work I was wondering if it would be very hard to add a environment-type NORMAL_GLOSS (normal map in rgb and gloss in the alpha channel)?

[rdb]

Sure thing. I'm swamped with other tasks at the moment, but please file a bug report, so that I can get it into 1.8.1.

[drwr]

Awesome! So I was wrong in my somewhat callous assertion that "it's probably not SSE2." My apologies.

David

[rdb]

For the record, I quickly implemented the normal_gloss mode this morning. It's in the new 1.8.0 release. I didn't actually test it, but the change is relatively trivial so I'm pretty confident that it works.

[wezu]

That was fast, thanks!