[osg-users] Tiny normals: osgviewer vs osgcompositeviewer

[Sebastian Messerschmidt]

Hi Per,

Just a thought:
Maybe the Optimizer simply applies normal-rescaling?

Cheers
Sebastian
> Hi all,
> 
> I came across something strange recently;
> the attached model is a red triangle scaled down by a factor 1000.
> The normals are squashed and I see some rendering problems in my app,
> which uses osgcompositeviewer.
> 
> Confirmed with
> osgcompositeviewer red.osgt  - renders with white color (incorrect)
> BUT
> osgviewer red.osgt - renders with red color (correct)
> 
> I did some digging in the OSG code, it seems the difference is that 
> osgviewer always
> optimizes the scene graph, something that osgcompositeviewer never does.
> Adding an optimizer to osgcompositeviewer fixes the rendering.
> 
> So first question; would it be better if the two viewers applied same 
> optimizer settings?
> Since users would expect them to display things in the exact same way.
> 
> Second and more interesting; how can optimizer correct a "broken" model?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> /Per
> 
> 
> 
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