Paolo wrote:I can confirm. Now anonymous user access to CVS is granted for me. But when I've tried to update nothing was downloaded!
Kind regards.
Both Chris and I have quite a bit of non-committed stuff in our /local/ Sandboxes. There is not much point in committing intermediate results that are not yet fully operational. As an example, I can hardly commit my new PNG template code, before ElChristou and I have designed a complete, much improved set of PNG templates. This is quite time consuming...Since the templates may now be edited with standard software, one may use layer techniques and "all that" (which we have been doing extensively).
Similarly, the whole ongoing task of rendering O(10000) (bipolar) planetary nebulae and galactic clusters requires besides the new supporting code, an extensive PERL script to extract all of these in standard format for Celestia from the respective published catalogs etc... There is the completely new terrain of designing templates for these new challenging objects again based on sprites and some recent published papers (see this forum elsewhere)
Chris has rewritten things such that non-power of two sized textures can now be rendered. Unfortunately, there is still a bug in his code, which now seems located after plenty of feedback between us. Also the memory management in case of "monster sized" VT's will have to be improved since there are occasional crashes.
Finally, there are still a few "oddities" in Chris new "star" code that have to be fixed as well
Bye Fridger
