[Bf-committers] Change to multisamples

[Brecht Van Lommel]

There's these two issues that are related to VBO's:
http://developer.blender.org/T35993
http://developer.blender.org/T36514

I remember there being a third but couldn't find it immediately.


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brecht, for my knowledge only intel+linux gives issues, or you know more
> cases?
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Brecht Van Lommel <
> brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Multisample select should be ok, but there are some concerns regarding
>> performance with animation playback etc, I will need to look into it.
>>
>> VBO should get enabled by default I think, but there are a few bugs in
>> Blender and graphics drivers related to it. Probably we can make it an
>> enum with Automatic/On/Off choices to disable it on drivers that we
>> know have issues.
>>
>> Brecht.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Ah, hold on. Sorry for spam. Mesa is buggy for intel+vbo (crash in
>> > selection buffer).
>> >
>> > But maybe someone tested mesa-10 already?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Well, that's not so bad then :)
>> >>
>> >> And what about enabling VBOs?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Linux both nouveau 9.2.4 and nVidia 331.20 work well with
>> >>> multisample enabled.
>> >>>
>> >>> These are recent drivers so, some users will have the old ones still.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com
>> >
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Hey,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Just a question, does selection works reliable on all the cards when
>> >>> > multisamples are enabled now? I remember Campbell had real issues
>> with
>> >>> this
>> >>> > and sometimes my laptop also behaved weird (could not reproduce it
>> now
>> >>> tho).
>> >>> >
>> >>> > If selection works reliable now, then its all fine, otherwise i don't
>> >>> think
>> >>> > using samples by default is a nice idea.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Also, would rather have enabled VBOs than multisamples. But that's
>> >>> another
>> >>> > story i guess..
>> >>> >
>> >>> > --
>> >>> > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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>> >>>
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