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1.3.0pre4 was crashing on my machine with a Radeon 9700 so I decided to have a look.
In LodSphereMesh::Render you've got:


glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY6_NV);
glx::glVertexAttribPointerNV(6, 3, GL_FLOAT, 0, tangents);

with a nice assume NV extensions comment which of course will crash on any pc with an ati card as glVertexAttribPointerNV will be a null pointer. I had a look for the equivalent ARB extensions but I didn't have a clue. There are some nasty looking function names in there.

Broken wrote:1.3.0pre4 was crashing on my machine with a Radeon 9700 so I decided to have a look.
In LodSphereMesh::Render you've got:


glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY6_NV);
glx::glVertexAttribPointerNV(6, 3, GL_FLOAT, 0, tangents);

with a nice assume NV extensions comment which of course will crash on any pc with an ati card as glVertexAttribPointerNV will be a null pointer. I had a look for the equivalent ARB extensions but I didn't have a clue. There are some nasty looking function names in there.

Oops! When attempting to add a standard OpenGL 1.4 render path to Celestia, I neglected to convert that function to use glVertexAttribPointerARB when the NVIDIA extension isn't used. This is obviously what's been preventing bump-mapping and other effects from from working on ATI cards. I'll fix this ASAP and put out another prerelease. For now, you can uncomment this line:

IgnoreGLExtensions [ "GL_ARB_vertex_program" ]

in celestia.cfg. This will disable the advanced rendering effects, but it will at least prevent crashing.

--Chris

Good stuff. Thanks.

I believe that I've fixed the problem. Give 1.3.0pre5 a try:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/files/celestia-win32-1.3.0pre5

--Chris

:D Fixed!
Yay for shiny bumpy planets!