[osg-users] VPB and OSG Version

[Kim Bale]

Chris, J-S,


Cheers chaps, far more detail that I was expecting!


K.


2009/11/3 Jean-Sébastien Guay <jean-sebastien.guay at cm-labs.com>:
> Hi Kim, Chris,
>
>>  .osg files are forward compatible and in limited cases backward
>> compatible (as long as
>> the older OSG has all the necessary feature support).
>
> And that's the catch really, some VPB versions introduced usage of some new
> features that were added to OSG at that moment, for example
> osgTerrain::Terrain techniques, and so you need to avoid using those
> features in your VPB-generated terrain database if you want it to be
> backwards-compatible. Just using the .osg format is often not enough.
>
>>  .ive files ar coded with the file version they are built by, and will not
>> be loaded by
>> any other version of OSG.
>
> Shouldn't that be "any *older* version"? Because .ive files created with OSG
> version X should be readable with OSG version Y if Y >= X. It's just the
> opposite which isn't true.
>
>>  You can convert between IVE and OSG with osgconv.
>
> Which gives you a way out, with the caveat noted above:
>
> 1. generate with VPB/OSG version X, into .osg files
> 2. convert to .ive with the osgconv compiled from OSG version Y
>
> As long as you keep your versions straight, and that you avoid using
> features specific to newer versions of OSG, it should go fine. But it's much
> less trouble using a recent version of OSG everywhere, of course.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> J-S
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