These shader thingies...

drew · Post by **drew** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:54 am

Are they Mac only, or can humble Linux users enjoy the goodness?

Cheers,

Drew.

Post by **another_commander** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:15 am

All major supported versions of Oolite (Mac, Win32, Linux) support shaders, provided your graphics card and drivers can handle them. When Oolite starts up, it will check for shader support and report any inability to use them in Latest.log.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:41 pm

Drew, as a fellow Ubuntu user I can report Oolite has shaders on my PC (gfx card is an FX5900XT using the nvidia restricted drivers - that Ubuntu goes off and finds and installs if you try and turn on the nice gfx desktop effects without having it there already).

HTH

(Gutsy Gibbon by-the-way)

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:03 pm

I'm on Hardy Heron, with a Nvidia 6800GT Graphics card - will have to investigate!

Cheers,

Drew.

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:21 pm

Drew, just fire up Oolite and look at the log. If it does not say anything along the lines of "Shaders cannot be used" then you are good to go.

If you want to be 100% sure, load up the Freaky Thargoids OXP (found in the Wiki) and wait in the ship parade screen for the Thargoid and Thargon ships to appear. Do they have animated textures? If yes, you are good with shaders.

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:16 pm

Thanks guys,

In which OXP is the big station with the shaders from Ahruman youtube video?

Cheers,

Drew.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:57 pm

It's called the 'Trade Outpost' - there's one version of it here:
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... &start=120

But there's another version too (made by Captkev?) where it looks a lot more moody & serious, and works better as a proper oolite station, i can't find the link for that though at the moment.

ovvldc · Post by **ovvldc** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:49 pm

another_commander wrote:
All major supported versions of Oolite (Mac, Win32, Linux) support shaders, provided your graphics card and drivers can handle them. When Oolite starts up, it will check for shader support and report any inability to use them in Latest.log.

I heard Vista and OpenGL don't play very nice, though. Does anyone know from experience?

Best wishes,
Oscar

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:53 pm

1.72 runs very well on my laptop which is Vista Home. I haven't got shaders though.

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:14 pm

ovvldc wrote:
I heard Vista and OpenGL don't play very nice, though. Does anyone know from experience?

Vista and OpenGL play just fine, provided you are up to date with your graphics drivers.