[Gzz] Re: [Gzz-commits] gzz gzz/client/AbstractShower.java gzz/client/F...

[Benja Fallenstein]

Tuomas Lukka wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:51:58AM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
>  
>
> > Tuomas J. Lukka wrote
> >
> >    
> >
> > > 	Move createVobScene to Window, where it can even have a default 
> > > 	argument for the dimension, removing lots
> > > 	of redundant code. Also javadoc a little. Some spillover to other 
> > > 	parts; background colors
> > >         should be resolved soon.
> > >
> > >      
> > Yes, before alpha1. What's the problem with them, anyway?
> >    
>
> After alpha1. 
>
> The point is that they need to be vobs, like everything else, so that
> 1) they can work the same in GL and AWT
> 2) that we can have an image or repeating texture as background

Ok, I see the point. This is what I'd *like* certainly, but in AWT, we 
need to do some magic to do the depth fading, and we need the background 
color for that... Ideas?

> There's an interesting point of GL performance: if you're going
> to write RGB data to every point on screen, you shouldn't clear
> the RGB buffer at all, only the depth buffer. This saves time,
> and e.g. Quake3 does this.

I don't understand... What's an RGB buffer, and what's a depth buffer?

-b.