Missing some textures

Scripting Issues
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Hello,

I run Panda on LinuxPPC: iBook G4 800, Radeon Mobility 9200.

I miss some textures: For example the star background in the Basic tutorials is not displayed ( it is all white ). Also the textures on the flowers in the GreetingCard are not displayed.

The Animated Textures example works fine ( as far as I can see ).

Do I need a certain thirdparty library to get it working? I have compiled with only the FFTW library since I miss all others on the PPC platform.

Thanks,

Arne

2

Do you have the ‘jpg’ and ‘png’ libraries compiled in? If not, it won’t be able to load some of the textures.

3

Yes, PNG and JPEG should be present.

Strange thing is: The Basic-Lesson 3 tutorial uses JPEG files for all textures. I see the sun, mercury, venus, mars and the moon but not the sky background or the earth --> Image of Solar System Sample

Maybe there is some endianess issue? PowerPC is big endian!

This is the status report of makepanda:

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Makepanda Initial Status Report
Makepanda: Prefix Directory: built
Makepanda: Compiler: LINUXA
Makepanda: Optimize: 3
Makepanda: Keep Pkg: ZLIB PNG JPEG TIFF SSL FREETYPE FFTW
Makepanda: Omit Pkg: VRPN FMOD NVIDIACG HELIX NSPR MILES MAYA5 MAYA6 MAYA65 MAX5 MAX6 MAX7
Makepanda: Thirdparty dir: thirdparty
Makepanda: DirectX SDK dir: None
Makepanda: Verbose vs. Quiet Level: 1
Makepanda: Don't generate API reference manual
Makepanda: Version ID: 1.0.4
Makepanda: MAYA5 not yet supported under linux
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-maya5
Makepanda: MAYA6 not yet supported under linux
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-maya6
Makepanda: MAYA65 not yet supported under linux
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-maya65
Makepanda: MAX5 not yet supported under linux
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-max5
Makepanda: MAX6 not yet supported under linux
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-max6
Makepanda: MAX7 not yet supported under linux
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-max7
Makepanda: HELIX not yet supported under linux
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-helix
Makepanda: You do not have a copy of MILES sound system
Makepanda: I have automatically added this command-line option: --no-miles
Makepanda: Caution: the built/lib directory is not in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Makepanda: or /etc/ld.so.conf.  You must add it before using panda.
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Interestingly, those two texures are 1024x1024, while the rest of them in that example are 512x512. I bet your card can’t handle textures that big.

Try putting this in your Config.prc:


max-texture-dimension 512

Incidentally, the next version of Panda that I am working on will be able to make this determination automatically.

David

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Thanks, David!

That fixed it!

/Arne