[vtk-developers] Proposed changes to 3D texture mappers

[Glen Lehmann]

Yes, Macs are a different story.

Apple developers their own OpenGL drivers in order to support all of
the graphics cards they sell well (and they do a good job of that),
however; this is also why GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE returns an artificially
low value and will continue to do so for a few years to come.

Glen

On 19/12/06, Yves Starreveld <ystarrev at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's nice to be able to override it, though (perhaps with a warning?), since
> on OSX, GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE returns artificially low due to driver issues.
>
> On 19-Dec-06, at 11:40 AM, Randall Hand wrote:
> Shouldn't this be set with something like
> glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE ?
>
> There are hardware limitations that restrict the maximum texture size..
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