1) Fix Issue 455 : Need to disable NPOT textures for older cards that claim to support it.

2) Clean up NPOT texture support.


git-svn-id: https://svn.java.net/svn/j3d-core~svn/trunk@787 ba19aa83-45c5-6ac9-afd3-db810772062c

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/classes/jogl/javax/media/j3d/JoglPipeline.java b/src/classes/jogl/javax/media/j3d/JoglPipeline.java
index ff22d5c..a6a134a 100644
--- a/src/classes/jogl/javax/media/j3d/JoglPipeline.java
+++ b/src/classes/jogl/javax/media/j3d/JoglPipeline.java
@@ -8436,11 +8436,18 @@ class JoglPipeline extends Pipeline {
         cv.textureExtendedFeatures |= Canvas3D.TEXTURE_LOD_RANGE;
         
         // look for OpenGL 2.0 features
-        if (gl20) {
-            if(!VirtualUniverse.mc.enforcePowerOfTwo) {
-                cv.textureExtendedFeatures |= Canvas3D.TEXTURE_NON_POWER_OF_TWO;
-            }
-        }
+        // Fix to Issue 455 : Need to disable NPOT textures for older cards that claim to support it.
+        // Some older cards (e.g., Nvidia fx500 and ATI 9800) claim to support OpenGL 2.0.
+        // This means that these cards have to support non-power-of-two (NPOT) texture,
+        // but their lack the necessary HW force the vendors the emulate this feature in software.
+        // The result is a ~100x slower down compare to power-of-two textures.
+        // Do not check for gl20 but instead check of GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension string
+        // if (gl20) {
+        //    if(!VirtualUniverse.mc.enforcePowerOfTwo) {
+        //        cv.textureExtendedFeatures |= Canvas3D.TEXTURE_NON_POWER_OF_TWO;
+        //    }
+        // }
+         
         
         // Setup GL_EXT_abgr
         if (gl.isExtensionAvailable("GL_EXT_abgr")) {